November 2012 - Diet plans and love bubbles

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1958191-November-2012-Any-words-yet

VQ pom poms all ready and waiting for the morning

Pass I too have had those looks since he was tiny so I sympathise BP. Everyone thinks L is about 3 I think.

YW that is so so sad :(

Euurghh have too much wedding stuff to do and don't know where to begin

pikz wedding list

Drink
Swish around in frock
Arrange for 50 odd bridesmaids, flower girls and boys.
Buy bulk packs of quiche
Drink

I got cow poo on my dress, then drunk dh stood on it and it ripped. Glamorous!

Also, thanks for the sympathies re: toddler terror. The quiet baby was already the same size as F, even thoughshe was at least half her age, so am certain she will bebe capable of truly mischievous acts before too long.

VQ the very best of luck for tomorrow, you will dazzle them I am sure xx

You know around 50 women Are cheering you on, lady. Xx

Masses of luck coming your way vq. Will be thinking of you. You'll be great!

VQ good luck!!!!!!!! Go Mrs!!!!!

Good luck VQ!

Pidj's wedding to do list:

Drink
Book register office
Buy frock, suit and rings
Invite mates with cute kids, suggesting that said kids might like a new outfit so they can follow me up (instead of wedding present)
Book pub lunch
Drink

Good luck VQ

Biting! Yikes. I would at least tell my son off and make sure other kid was ok/reassured. Shocked at the non reaction.

Chick at Cheerios and sugar! I thought they were a healthy breakfast. Tomorrow I may give him corn flakes. Just to see his reaction. I don't like buying baby good I'd rather find a healthy grown up alternative. Also all baby food ice bought him he will eat a few crackers/biscuits etc but then hates them and they have been binned. Apart from rusks, but e en those annoy him as the middle is thick and hard for him to bite.

Any snacks you would recommend?
Too small for raisins?

Food timings were a lil better today.
9 milk
10 breakfast
11.30 quarter cheese sandwhich
4.30 milk
5 banana and rusk
7 pasta
8 milk

Just need to make breakfast a lil earlier and lunch a lil more substantial and we are at a routine I'm happy with. Such hard work!

O eats raisins. Has done since 7 months :) so H should be fine. :)

Snacks here (if required!) are banana, tangerine, apple, raisins, breadsticks, organix oat bars or their other snack range stuff. As a treat he gets rich tea fingers . That's mostly it I think.

I wanted to ask if he is having too much fruit? He has 4 portions a day at the moment. Plus he has veg or salad type stuff with his lunch and dinner. So probably 7-8 portions of fruit/veg a day.

Any opinions??

It's hard to get the balance right sometimes. :(

Should be fine det. O has 3 portions Of fruits and 3-4 portions of veggies.

Snack here is bread roll, orange and banana.

vq good luck

vq thinking of you today.

bp glad you had a great time o spends all his time trying to climb out of high chairs when we go out

gt mine have Cheerios I actually think that the supermarket own brand equivalent have less sugar? HOWEVER there is nothing wrong with a bit of sugar, in moderation like everything else. Remember fruit is full of the stuff. Prob is is you ban something it becomes very attractive and they will go ballistic then when it is put in front of them

You must have heard my anecdote about the two kids who were never allowed anything sweet and then one Christmas we went over and there was a box of Quality Street and their behaviour over it was appalling, I would have been embarrassed if they were mine, that was when I made my mind up to teach my children how to balance it. (Think was when Dd1 was a baby )

I try to vary cereals so there are lots that they like so I regularly swap around between Cheerios, Weetabix, Shreddies and Porridge.

Went to aerobics. Mr Trunchball was suitably apologetic about my injury, and when soe one else pulled something badly I asked him if he was aiming for an injury a week.

Nursery day today woo hooo. Was going to go to a nearby town to a shop I like the look of and investigate the sale, but might be a stay in the warm day and potter. Will see.

Good morning quiche

Good luck today VQ You have the full support of the quiche behind you - you can't possibly fail x

Speaking of work stuff, I have an appointment at the job centre this morning to discuss my return to work. Am rather excited at this prospect.

vq wishing you the very best of luck today xx

Off to catch up.

bp how good would it be if in a few months time you are in the same cafe as her and her LO is doing the same! you could just give her that look!

Hope your day isn't too weird today pass

Glad E ate a lot of dinner kyz he sounds like he eats just fine most days so it's good that you're trying not to worry.

gt S eats raisins, she manages them fine. I give her fruit to snack on, or crackers, she loves dry crackers.

det S eats about the same amount of fruit as O, she loves fruit. I just worry eating to much will give her a bad belly, or is that just a myth? I struggle getting veg into her, she will eat peas and sweetcorn, because she like picking them up, but only very few at any one time, oh and carrots too. She very rarely let's me spoon feed her so it's just whatever I can put on her tray for her to pick up, she used to like broccoli but now licks it and throws it on the floor.

I love a day pottering soph

chasing very exciting. Do you have any ideas on what you'd like to do? Will you go back to doing what you done before? I was sooooooo looking forward to being a sahm, but increasingly I find myself wanting to go to work, I'd love to be able to just do say 2 days a week. When I handed in my notice at work I was told there would be a job there for me if I ever wanted to go back, probably back on the phones though not as a team leader or a coach.

chasing I will be really interested on how it goes. If my work from home plan goes tits up I will have to go out into the big wide world which is v scary as I worked for the same company since I graduated from uni.

gt I completely agree with sophia. Sugar in moderation is fine. They need to learn about balanced diets. E has a very small bowl of cheerios to feed herself with (or occasionally coco pops which are probably worse) whilst I spoon feed her porridge. Whilst these cereals do contain sugar they also contain fortified vitamins. I dont make sweets and chocolate completely out of bounds but neither do I let them have free range of them.

chasing that's great news. Hope it goes well.

E is all snotty and coughing. She's only just recovered from her throat infection. DD1 was never poorly all the time like this. Swimming today. so will have to see how she goes. Hope you all have a good day x

I agree with Eliza and Sophia on sugar though - I'm probably more blasé about 'bad' foods as he's so little and might be more strict if I was worrying about him being too big. But I'd rather teach him balance and self moderation - than try to raise him in a 'pure' controlled environment which he'll most likely rebel against at the first sniff of freedom. I remember watching those kids at uni - it was like a car crash !

But equally I want to expose him to a wide range of tastes now so he doesn't just get a love for sweet things

Re: sugar, we were given unlimited treats and massive portions as children and have all grown up with weight problems into adulthood (even my brother who was v sporty). So I am trying to limit sugar, puddings etc to avoid a sweet tooth. My mum always used to talk about some family friends and how they were never allowed sugar and then went mad at parties but it recently occurred to me that they were all slim, active and healthy unlike us. Maybe it's all genetic and what will be will be, my family all think it's hilarious that I try to eat healthily and constantly make jokes about how he can have a biscuit now mummy's not looking, or overreacting if I let him have a bit of birthday cake as though I'm some kind of ogre. It's difficult as my mum looks after him 2.5 days/wk so it's not like an occasional thing. But if I say anything about anything she goes mad and says nothing she does is ever good enough etc. So I try and chill out about it. He loves her so much and their relationship is great so that's more important.

When he's with me he has:
8am milk (8oz)
9am porridge and berries
10.30 rice cake/piece of toast
12.30 either hot lunch or sandwiches & little tomatoes/cuc + half a satsuma
3.30 banana or raisins or mini muffin
5pm milk (8oz)
6pm either hot dinner or cheese/eggs on toast + tomatoes & fruit if he's not had it earlier.
7pm tiny bit of milk before bed (1-2oz)

Times aren't set in stone as his nap is so unpredictable, sometimes he's asleep by 10.30am, other times not till 12.30! So snacks can get swapped or missed. I want to swap the evening around so he has dinner earlier and then one bottle before bedtime. He is still on bottles and sippy cups, I keep looking at next stage cups but don't want to waste money buying loads of different ones. V impressed with the open cup drinkers!

Re sugar, before O was born I thought I would be the type to not allow him even a tiny amount of sugar. Ever. But I have relaxed this now and he has the odd biscuit from time to time. I am trying to encourage a healthy attitude to eating and remain relaxed about mealtimes. I am a bit stuck in a rut with meals though so need to have a look through some books.

My appointment went very well. My personal adviser was very positive about my prospects of finding work. She did a better off calculation for me and even at minimum wage, 16 hours a week would see me at £250 a month better off. I am very pleasantly surprised by this as I didn't expect to be much better off at all. Sophia, I know how you feel as I have worked for the same company since uni and the thought of finding a new job is a bit daunting. Fruit, I don't know how big the call centre market is here but I think I will end up in some kind of customer service role. As I'm only looking for part time work at the moment, I assume I would end up back on the phones rather than a TL if I did end up back in a call centre. My dream is to work with books in some capacity, but we shall see.

Good luck to those that need it

R has weetabix with milk and a banana plus a small bowl of whatever cereal I'm having for breakfast as soon as he wakes. Organix crisps or a biscuit around 10:30/11 depending on what we're doing. Sandwich, soup or egg and toast and piece of fruit (a whole one eg satsuma or apricot) for lunch when he wakes from his nap about 12:30. Crumpet/half a bagel or English muffin around 2:30/3 then cooked dinner at 4:30-5. Just the one breastfeed at 5:30 now, his choice. He has water available at all times and i try to give him a few oz cows milk with his afternoon snack, but snacks are a bit optional particularly the morning one.

He's still asleep! That's 50 minutes, the first 10 of which were on my back then i got him down undressed and in his sleeping bag in his cot when we got home

Ooooo muffins.