The 7th Broadly Gemini Luxury Bus - Now with highchairs!

[AGnu]

Old thread here

Bibs at the ready, things are about to get very messy!

We skipped purées and went straight to textured/mash as first foods. We also decided before we started that we'd do some finger foods almost from the start too. That said we're nervous about it. We start out great, giving chip-sized pieces of steamed carrot or broccoli but when he grabs them and tries to shove them in his mouth we panic a bit and end up breaking it up into small little pieces. As first timers it's hard not to stress about choking.

That said DH reminded me of what the health visitor told me at the weaning class - that it's natural for them to gag. If they haven't totally got the hang of swallowing they'll store the food at the back of their tongue and then gag it up again. Doesn't make me feel better when it looks like he's choking though.

That's what I thought lor and that's what kitten does if she's got abit carried away but she's straight back on it again after!

It's embarrassing to admit that I've done 2 first aid courses. One whilst pregnant and one with baby rocking at the back of the classroom. I can't remember much from either of them. Bad isn't it

I've downloaded the Red Cross app though which is brilliant. I should make time to look at it once each week and maybe some info might sink in! All I know is if he's chocking to put him across your back and hit between the shoulder blades...I think.

Oh and don't try and scoop the object out

Lol I mean across your legs. Across your back...how silly. See I can't even type anymore! Or speak English!!

Parenting is... Being very excited about skiving off church & have a morning entirely to yourself with no plans & spending it staring at the clock feeling lost & lonely!

Yes, it's natural for them to gag... But it doesn't look like a particularly pleasant experience! I prefer to go for a gentler approach to eating personally. I'm really funny about textures though & quite often gag on food myself so that's probably influencing my opinions on this. Runt has only properly gagged/choked once - when we oh-so-cleverly fed him mashed potato while reclining in his bouncer! DH who was supposed to be feeding him stood there flapping, I flew across the room, whisked him out & lay him across my arm, face down, & patted thumped his back until it came out. Turns out my time working in a hospital lab was useful for something - mandatory first aid course, including a few mentions of paediatric stuff! I feed Runt now...

pear I take note and will savour every sleep moment!

Right ladies, not much more for me to add here seeing as currently I only have the dog, DH and myself to feed, and we're all fairly proficient mostly with this.

I'll say hi occasionally on FB then.

Byeeeeeeee x

I think the gagging is normal. I remember reading somewhere that it's because their gag reflex is at the front of the mouth whereas ours is in the back, so it's normal for them to have that reaction... but it's also a good sign that they are able to move the food around in their mouths. The only food that scares the pants off me is uncooked apples. Both of the boys have actually choked on them and I freaked out big time when DH gave a piece to M. I'll not be living through that experience again! Lol, no kitty you are not the bad choke mum. I would totally do the same thing.

Geeze, not bad at all pear! I wish Dh would invest an hour of his day to do something like that....

Keep in touch thunder! You're welcome on this bus anywhere, anytime

Yep, no prob frusso You can have ALL of it!

The zoo near me has reindeer for Christmas Frus. I'm sure I could obtain some... Keep an eye out for a smelly, soggy parcel!

Oh no bring DH only came to the first session. He was working the second time round.

Have had a nightmare afternoon. Baby pear has hardly napped and we had to take him out to see friends. Got stuck in 2 traffic accidents which meant it took 1.5hrs to get home. He screamed the last hour non-stop He's now sleeping on me after he calmed down and it's nearly 8:30pm. Completely messed up bedtime. I'm sure some of you second/third time mummies know all about this mistake! Do you ever learn?

Oh yes pear, you'll never make that mistake again lol
Well all our trips out are planned around getting the kids home for a certain time, if not we stay over or do the bedtime before we leave put in Jim jams and into the car seat but it's pretty rare
For you, I hate the car seat screams, they haunt me

Omg the car seat screams are just the worst aren't they!! I tell friends who don't have kids and they look at me like I'm off my rocker. They don't get it at all. Think you have to have kids to understand the car seat scream! Baby pear woke up at 9 and I managed to dress him and rock him to sleep by 9:30 so it's better then I expected however he missed his carb tea so I'm expecting more wake ups than normal tonight

Typical. Could not get back to sleep after feeding baby at 5:30. Wastes 2 hours trying

Ugh I had such a crap night! It's surposed to be babies that are hard work! Kitten slept 7-7 not a peep, tiger on the other hand dd1 who has been renamed as I feel bad she's not got a nn and she's clearly the boss woke me up 7 times!!! She came up with all sorts of excuses, I wanted to kill myself but her more! Everytime it took me ages to sleep again too pear, you have my sympathy

M is mumsnetting with me this morning. The boys have been sent out in the snow and I'm enjoying a cuppa in the peace and quiet that is soon to end

Car seat screaming is heart-shattering. M prefers to do it in traffic and in the dark.

Oh man kitty The older kids are even worse than the babies! It drives me mental when they come into our room (slamming the door wide open in the process) turn on our lights (waking up DH and I and the baby) and declare that they need a drink of water. 7 times? Is she getting a nap today at least? Or maybe deprive her of the nap and make her go to bed early

Frusso we have some dog-poo snow from the shitty neighbor's dog that I can include free of charge in your fed-ex package of snow

Ugh frus I couldn't cope!
I either hear crying, I want bubby or wakes wakey mummy then repeated with daddy like you lol
Bring she had a two hour nap today, she needed it! I think it's a mixture of comming down with a cold and overtired as she's better with a 40 min nap aday and the last two shed had none

Aww, poor little lamb tigress hopefully she's back on form soon kitty

Yikes frus Is that every night?

Agnu how are you feeling? You decided to stop the meds, are you thinking of trying another dosage or just off them all together and trying something else? Just asking b/c I'm starting to have more bad days than good. Definitely starting to feel really down and just mentally beating myself up over stupid shit. I think I might need to start seeing the counselor again.

I'm doing ok thanks bring! I'm off the meds for the time being until I feel physically healthy again. I had a weird problem with my ears where there was fluid in the tubes which was draining down my throat constantly but never quite cleared. My ears seem to be nearly better now but several times a day I get a feeling like there's something stuck in my throat & I can see it's swollen up at the back! I think the ear thing might have damaged my throat so I'm waiting for that to resolve before I inflict more unpleasantness on myself! I've not been feeling too down just recently though so that's something at least! Did you find counselling helped before? Definitely worth at least touching base with them if you're starting to struggle. Hopefully it's just a blip & you'll be feeling yourself again soon!

Frus! How do you survive. I'm struggling on 4 hours and it's really showing. Have caught another cold/cough and have a tired twitching eye I can't get rid of