November 2012 - Any words yet?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1948944-November-2012-What-are-your-New-Years-resolutions-for-your-baby

YW R started as a wee one, tracking the 0.4th line. Then he weaned and got to 50th at 12 months! His height has kept up though pretty much and he's not a chubby baby, more toddler shaped with his little round belly :o we mixed weaned, so he gets eg sausage as finger food with mash and veg spooned in. I've also always given him a spoon to play with and he can sometimes get a spoonful in himself but gets bored that way so we do it.

Today he had: 2weetabix with cows milk and a banana at 8:30. A slice of toast and 2 organix biscuits at 10. 1/2 sausage and 1/4 English muffin at 11:45 (i often get the timing of this wrong for naps) i forgot afternoon snack and he didn't ask then 6ish oz vegetable pasta, a pack of organix crisps, 2 fromage frais and 1/2 box raisins at 4:30. 20 minutes bf at 12:15 and 5:45. Lunch is normally all i gave him (1veg sausage and 1/2 muffin) plus a fromage frais and a pear or satsuma and afternoon snack a honey sandwich or 1/2 bagel.

When spoon feeding i follow his cues, so if he opens his mouth i put food in. If he doesn't, i either change the food (mush it more or something) if he's only had a bit, or i switch to pudding if hes had more than half.

I have no idea if I'm doing it right. He's happy and healthy and doesn't look fat, so all i can do is try to teach him to listen to his own body. Fwiw my friend's 1yo is chubbier yet eats like a sparrow, often refusing breakfast. Also ebf :)

Pidj we mixed weaned too - it suited his inner control freak and mine ! He's tracked between 2-9th centile for weight and gone from 9th to 25th for height. I'm curious how he'll measure up next week at the hospital.

Fascinating food chat!

I am now worried I have been starving p! She got weighed today and is 9.1kg.

She starts the day with 120ml milk. Due to our schedule she then has brekkie straight away. Today I tried to get her to eat porridge - not a chance. I gave her a handful of shredded wheat, some raisins and 1/3 banana. She nibbled the banana and ate most of the shredded wheat and raisins.

Her snack is usually fruit - maybe 1/2 banana and some blueberries with a corn cake.

Lunch today was 2 falafel, one babybel and some salad

If she has another snack then it is more fruit. Grapes and pear.

Dinner tonight was a slice of toast and beans with a wee bit of coq au vin.

She may or may not have a half bottle at lunch and always drains her full bedtime bottle. I can't physically make her eat any more though. She just starts flinging it about.

Mind you, some days she eats like a Shetland Pony. And ends up looking like one - all big belly on wee stick legs.

Yep - p is also mix fed. Most meals are a combination. Sometimes if she starts refusing the spoon I dollop food in the tray and that seems to peak her interest again.

Pass, that sounds like the amount of food O eats

Pass what you describe is much more like J's normal appetite. He looks like a Shetland pony today - huge belly and sparrow legs (that'll be why he's not walking yet!). When he has days where he eats like this I too worry I've been starving him for weeks but I follow his cues and some days he just eats like a mouse and others he is a total hog!

L is a chubster but very tall. He eats like his father in massive quantities but I would say 5/6 days he does this and the other 1/2 he eats but less.

We also mixed weaned as it worked for us.

He also has dropped milk to a cup of it at 10am and then 12oz at bed.

Ah well. That's good to know. She was hilarious at the weekend when I tried to swap a piece of Christmas cake with a healthier oaty bar. She took one look at the oaty bar, handed it back and pointed at the remaining cake on the plate - she knows what she wants!

And thanks for thoughts on reins. We should give them a try. We have a basic pair already but I do fancy a ladybird or something. I suspect she will just end up being dragged along the floor though when she wants to go the opposite direction from me.

F is eating much more now she has nearly stopped her afternoon bottle. She has gone from 0.4th to 91st centile. Not sure how! Typically she'll have porridge made with water and a whole banana mashed in, plus bread and butter for brekkie, sandwich with tomatoes and cucumber plus kiwi, biscuit, grapes for lunch, some crackers for snacks, then portion of whatever we're having at tea.

I still need to get 300 calories into me, but am too tried to eat anyhing else. Am sure poor sleep doesn't help either weight loss or gain.

BP go on eat a Mars bar for me or a . go on go on gooooooo ooooooon

Baileys hot chocolate?

Some of these babies eat more than I do!

Good productive day at work but poor J is not a happy boy tonight. So much mucus and a horrid horrid cough.

I agree BP that lack of sleep affects weight in the exact opposite way you wish it would. Like stress. If I were a person who lost weight with stress I would have disappeared by now

Pass reigns are the way to go, but be prepared for rude looks and comments of having baby on a lead. If you get a fancy ladybird one, make sure it is a genuine Littlelife one. Noting worse than reins giving way the first time you use them and baby ending up with a bloody nose due to poor stitching.

Night night, need sleep as I am fucked, and not in a good way x

Am in bed now lol. Shall make sure I have a milky drink at work tomorrow.

Night all. Good luck.

I shall strap on my helmet and do a dust quick smart!

Funny you should say that vq as on amazon the prices range from £2.99 or so to £20. I am erring on the more costly given the wee nutter's proclivity for running.

I have noticed that older ladies can be rude about p's dummy. Sort of passive aggressive talking through her about 'that nasty thing' and so on.

I am still about this morning's news. It changes things considerably. I am waiting for the bubble to burst. I have worked hard but also been incredibly lucky the last few months.

I came home tonight to find my 'baby' eating pasta out a bowl by herself with a fork and drinking out an open tumbler. She is growing up far too fast!!

Will now go and attempt to catch up!

Evening quiche! Posting from phone so may not be the most epic of posts. Rat is ok. Am actually £140 down, but leg not broken. He is quiet this evening but has eaten and I can't do more than I have. Meds given, cuddles too, warmth and a variety of foods rats generally enjoy (egg, pasta, chicken, kale)

E poorly, not good :( temp and coughing till sick :( but asleep now bless him

Lol yw at the poo hunt!!

Lol evil bless him

Awww pr hope lo is better soon

Nice isles

Eek zamboni you'll need a plumber first to sort the leak out as someone else said (sorry forgot who) if you don't have insurance that'll cover it

Yaaay congrats sebsmummy that's awesome!

I think R will do it when he's ready pp it's hard to say but other than encouragement and opportunity I'm not sure you can do much more

Bless p for being brave pass but grr at hv for being a bit :/ !

lily sorry not sure what you should do re your niece, just wanted you to know I had read it and I am thinking. Perhaps wrap some as presents but give some to your sis and say these are also for x but I didn't want to spoil her so I'm giving it to you? Or is that a stupid idea?

Wow yw what alot! He's definitely hollow that one! E can put away tonnes some days but sadly it's been a case of tempting him mostly for the past month or so. He has the odd day or two where he's hollow again but mostly is very meh :( I couldn't get more into him though as he just won't do it. Today he had 4 spoons of porridge, two oranges, half a dozen grapes, a packet of organix, a tiny slice of home made pizza and half a slice of toast and about 6oz milk. That's all :(

Hope you get a good night vq

Erm. Am I at the end now?

Night quiche x

Interesting food chat (sry havnt read very far yet)
Harjun has milk first thing. 2weetabix with milk about half hour later.
Lunch today was At 4 he had 4small pieces of chicken.
Half hour later a digestive biscuit.
At 6 tried to give him chick pea curry, didn't have any. Had a lil bit of pita bread. And a digestive (as I was worried he had hardly eaten) and a yogurt.
He ate a bit of roti and curry when mil was eating.

So basically ANOTHER bad food day for H.
We try to give him banana before nap, but doesn't always happen.

Need to fit in lunch before naps but I can't bear to wake him up earlier
He has breakfast so well. Don't know how to fix the rest of the meal times.

Reading backwards.
Read congrats to isle ! Guess what I thought! Lol but yeah for pay rise

Seba congrats. Hold off on buggy yet. Maybe get a buggy board instead? But depends how much you use buggy to walk? H is still not walking at 15months, Although has taken first steps.
I love my oyster max and I can use it as a single later on. Actually I use it as a single sometimes now. It's the main reason I didn't want a side by side type buggy

sebsmummy congrats That is lovely news. I am so broody it's unbelievable.

Isles well done on the pay rise. What does it mean financially in terms of what kind of house you can afford on your own?

YW Wow. I am gobsmacked at the amount he eats! I thought C ate a lot but nowhere near that much.

I need to have a chat with DP about ttc number 2. I don't want to wait until the end of the year but at the same time I'm scared to try again.

sebs sorry I missed your news earlier. huge congratulations.

pass DD1 was the same re holding my hand so we used reins. She was fine with them and didn't get any rude looks, not that I noticed anyway! she had ones with a giraffe on the back. Cute. I'd use them with E if necessary but I don't think she'll be walking about outside till about the age of 10 at this rate so may bypass the need for reigns.

E eats very little compared to what you've all listed. She still only weighs 7.4kg. DD1s best meal of the day is by far breakfast. She is like a ganet in the morning, just won't stop eating and then her interest weins by dinner time unless pudding is on offer.

It's her birthday tomorrow so better go and sort the gifts, ballons etc. Night all x

C's typical day is porridge and blueberries for breakfast, tuna sandwich and yogurt for lunch, whatever we have for dinner but with extra veg. He also has a couple of snacks which are fruit, cheese or a biscuit. He only has one bottle of milk now before bed.

Pass those amounts sound very similar to O. Last time O was weighed (at 12 months) he was 9.7kg, so P sounds a good weight!

We get the odd days of mammoth eating too YW. However, I suspect I ration him more than he would like. He never refuses something offered! We went out this evening, leaving MIL in charge of dinner. He had roast veg (large chunks of sweet potato, parsnips and carrots) 2 potato waffles, a sausage, half a pack of sweetcorn rings, 1 and a half bananas (!!!) (he'd already had one for lunch arghh!) and a tangerine.

Now if I'd been feeding him, I'd have only offered the tangerine after his main meal. And that is it!

He's between 50th-75th centiles for weight, and doesn't seem hungry between meals. So I just stop when I think it is enough.

But then he will have days where he is whinging and I just know he is hungry.

Breakfast I know he would eat 2 weetabix, which is why I still add the puree or mashed fruit to it. He'd eat 2 crumpets too! Which seems crazy?! That is an adult portion to me?! I'm not sure what the best thing to do is!

I had a WTF moment earlier today. MIL arrived here to watch O while me and DP went to the cinema. I nearly wet myself as we were both wearing pretty much identical outfits!! Skinny jeans (I finally got a pair - that fit, and look really flattering!!) with the same tshirt from New Look, but in a different design (but still a very similar design!). We also have black belted mac type coats, and identical scarves, which we were both wearing.

Poor DP. He shacked up with a younger version of his mum!!!!

(His mum is 47 - we have similar tastes. It was bound to happen one day!!)

PS. I got skinny jeans in New Look, which are pretty flattering - for £20! I'm very happy - I haven't been able to wear jeans for a LONG time.

Lol Det, am sure you looked mucg better than MIL. Awkward though.

Happy birthday to dd1 eliza, I bet she's dead excited.

Pass, did you check the expiry date on that dust. Damn stuffhas failed. Am Once again sat on floor in the dark, urgh.

No actually!! She did! She is a size 10! I am not!!!

We just laughed! I don't mind really!

I have a food idea that O loved - someone in work mentioned their kids loved it. Just cook pasta as usual, but crumble in a stock cube or two in to the water, then drain as usual. Adds a nice taste to the pasta! I tried it - was nice. O just ate it as it was with some chicken pieces and tomato chunks! Quick, mess free, and enjoyed! Can't ask for much more!

It's fecking cold sat here.

You alright, I are feeling sleeeeeepy.