June 2013 Commando crawlers vs Baby slugs

[SunnyL]

Hi all - the old thread was about to run out so I started a new one.

Little Miss was up to mischief last night. Thankfully it's DHs day off today so he took her into bed with him while I slept in the spare room. She is just so excitable when she wakes up at night. It can can 90 minutes to scrape her off the ceiling.

I think I need to make these muffins! Anybody got the recipe suitable for a sleep deprived idiot

Am intrigued what was posted and deleted!

I just made cheesy muffins, I couldn't find the right page of this thread while I was at the shop so I did a quick Google which gave me this link: www.netmums.com/family-food/family-recipes/a-z-of-family-recipes/cheesy-muffins (oops it's from netmums.. will you forgive me?)

I got tempted by the silicone muffin tray in Waitrose. I made half the batch in those, and half in a metal non-stick muffin tray I already had. I DEFINITELY recommend the silicone! Removing them is really easy (with the metal one even though I'd greased it well, stuff still got stuck) and they also seem to bake more evenly. They were also so easy to make, took about 5 minutes to prep. Thanks to whoever suggested it!!

Thanks rrreow x

Man I'm going to have to make these cheesy muffins now too. Sound quite tasty. I like the falafels I made her the other day too - can't remember who recommended them but well done that person

Recipes I did was the cheese & spinach recipe that someone posted earlier, sorry forget who it was. The other 2 were from Annabel Karmel,
carrot & cheese posted here and banana bran posted here.

Really need to work on our mealtimes. It's a struggle as E seems to scream most of the way through. I can't work out today if she's just so hungry by then she gets antsy, or if she's just wanting to pick food up herself. Though that requires more prep than just mashing up yesterday's dinner.

MadameJ thanks for your reply, reassuring to know that it is ok to feed at night and there's no particular rush to night wean. Like you say if they are feeding on demand thru the day(my bubba has anything from 5-8 feeds a day) then it's ok for them to not be interested in the morn wake up feed????

So hard not to doubt yourself all the time! My bubba is sleeping well (most of the time, however now teething kicking in eek ! Why can't they grow a full set of teeth overnight and be done with it! ??

Eliza imo (for whats it's worth) night weaning has it's place if and when you decide that something needs to change. I know that if I didn't offer boob to my dd she would be awake for hours on end, at least when she feeds it's 20 minutes and straight back to sleep. My eldest stopped her night feeds at about 14 months so they do do it eventually when they are ready. Both of my girls have always taken a lot of comfort from breastfeeding so obviously nursing would increase with teething etc x

OK! No more Mr Nice Mum! Trying to tackle these hourly/2 hourly night wakings. Last night when DS2 woke up for the umpteenth time I just let him cry (while patting him & reassuring him) until he went back to sleep. Then I had to placate husband (loud noise in the night & being woken up is triggering for him), but at least it all WORKED. So he fed around 12am, then had no feed around 3am when he woke up - maybe 10 mins of crying (maybe even less, it just feels like ages when it's the middle of the night and I'm hoping against hopes it doesn't wake up DS1!), and had his next feed around 6am.

Also trying to tackle naps. Putting him down before my SIL gets here, so he gets a good first nap in. Then keep reminding her to put him down early and not let him go on and on. I dunno if all of this is going to make a jot of different but I need to feel like I'm doing SOMETHING or I'll go insane!

In other news, I made some banana muffins!! I made banana cake the other day but was really interested in finding a healthy (no sugar, no butter) alternative and some googling paid off: no added sugar banana muffins They're REALLY NICE!!! Bit more work than the other ones though because of having to use the food processor. They're a lovely texture because of the wholemeal and the walnuts. Next time I might try and put some raisins in. You guys, I'm such a total muffin convert now I'd never made one in my life before yesterday!

My silicone muffin tray is on the way to me, so that's this weekend sorted!

I'm sure Amy will approve. :-)

I need to batch cook some main meals for her too as she hadn't progressed to 3 meals yet. Any good recipes there at all?

We've had a few nights of not too bad sleep. She did wake at 4.45 today because her nappy was wet, and she hates that. She needed 60ml to go back to sleep for another 2 and a bit hours. She's been having 10-10.5 hours a night the last few nights, with only one wake up last night. Really hope this is permanent progress. :-)

I just made some spinach and cheese muffins - I feel like a proper mother! They look good. Thanks for the suggestion, whoever it was.
MrsBri - main meals that have gone down well here - bolognaise with the tiny pasta, salmon and broccoli, combinations of sweet potato, turnip, potato, carrot, peas with some cheese mixed in.

Just back from Ikea where some silicone cupcake cases fell into my trolley. All this muffin talk is catching! We were given the go ahead to give ds eggs and dairy this week (yippee ) so I'm plotting some cheese muffins and the such like. I had my first piece of milk chocolate yesterday in c7months. Alas I think my tastebuds have changed and it was weird and sweet. Proper milk in my tea tastes wrong too :(

Reliable food here has been chunks of avocado, fishcakes, fish fingers ( ), falafels, roast veg. There's always an emergency pouch in the cupboard just in case a meal prep goes wrong. DS seems to prefer the Hipp organic ones to the Ella savoury pouches...

Ach all you earth mothers are making me feel bad. I've been working this week so not much time and we're away this weekend so she'll just have to make do.

I have a dilemna I need some help with ladies.

We've been invited to a wedding in Norwich in June - we're in Edinburgh. Its a mammoth long car journey (7 hours without stops) especially as we have to stop every 2 hours to let little girl out. We looked into flying but it would cost us c. £600 for the flights & hotel and a) we're skint and b) we've got 3 weddings in the space of 6 weeks this year so definitely can't afford that.

Even if we were to actually make it to the wedding how do we manage the reception? The reception is not in the same place as the hotel. Nowadays once it gets to bedtime Lily really just needs to go to bed. So does that mean I'd have to leave the reception at 7 to put her to bed and then sit in silence, in the dark in a hotel room?

Its all sounding quite poo so DH has offered that he goes to the wedding by himself (its his childhood friend) and me and Lil stay at home. I feel bad but the logistics just seem insurmountable. WWYD?

Mrs81, have you tried the Green & Black milk chocolate with higher cocoa content? It's much better than regular milk chocolate (especially stuff like Cadbury's.. I find that waaaay too sugary). I think Waitrose own brand do one as well now. I find it a good compromise between milk & dark. Much admiration for being dairy free for such a long time, I don't think I'd survive. I could live without milk and chocolate but not without yoghurt and cheese!

Sunny, I think I would just let your DH go alone to the wedding, if he wants to go. The logistics of you all going are too difficult, and it would be tough on Lily and what's the point if you are going to be stuck in a hotel room from early evening onwards. Only other idea, take a grandparent with you?

Do YOU want to go Sunny?

Personally, if I really wanted to go I'd say sod the routine for one night. I'd let her party herself out and put to sleep in the buggy. If I felt a bit meh about making the effort then I'd probably bow out and let DH have a good time & a break.

Yep, agree with rrrreow! I got the sense from your wording that you weren't fussed about going, Sunny, but I might be wrong!

Rrreow, yes, I was never much of a cadbury fan anyway. But now 70-odd% choc tastes sweet to me, and 85% pleasingly dark. Not to worry, it's hardly a problem! The fairly mild cheddar tasted so strong though so I will be doing some training on the cheese front.

Sunny, if /you/ are going out of any sense of duty then I think you have a very valid get out card and you should feel okay to use it.

Ladies please all buy the baby led weaning cookbook. Is aces that's where these recipes come from.

Sunny we have the same re wedding. Ours is in Drymen so first question, can we come and stay with you? Our back up plan, should you not be available, is to rent a cottage in Balloch and make a mini holiday out of it. This leaves us no worse off as cottage cheaper than hotel. We would have to leave early as you say so I'd rather do this and go back somewhere nice. As you say will be nightmare with baby so we are making the best of it. We want to go but not to leave early and sit in dark hotel room!

So, is this an option for you?

Btw how old are you? I'm 35 and average two or three a year but I'm guessing you are younger hence the wedding fest. I knocked through ten a year a few years ago!

Awww how kind - lovely to think I might be young sounding. Sadly no I'm 34 but DH is a bit of a toy boy so its mostly his friends nowadays.

Both the IL's and the evil SILs family are going. she is permanently skint and is very proficient at squeezing her parents for financial assistance so we hoped they might cover the cost of a cottage. Unfortunately they've decided we all have to stay at the Travel Lodge. She's got small children too so probably my worst fear is to have to back to the hotel with her to spend the evening. I think sitting in a hotel room in the dark in silence would be preferable

34 is young, Sunny says wrinkly old 41-year-old!
Any chance of your DH's family helping out on a shift system by taking it in turns to sit in the hotel room for a couple of hours to let you enjoy the party?

I included punctuation in that post, but it didn't show up!

Sunny, another option, you hire a babysitter through sitters.co.uk, you go back to the hotel at 7, settle dd, leave her with the sitter and rejoin the party, however this is an expensive option.

We've just agreed to send DH to a wedding on his own in April, it's child free, 3 hour drive away, and dd is not settling for anyone other than me, so it seems cruel to do to mil to ask her to have them for the night.

Will look up the BLW cookbook. Made leek and chestnut risotto from HFW Veg book today and she loved that.

Tricky one Sunny, I think rrreow pretty much sums up my thoughts. I think you can go with your personal preference and feel justified either way. We seem to be past the wedding stage now (at the grand old age of 36).

Cookbook bought, dispatched and should arrive today. Hurrah for Amazon Prime!

I definitely lack ideas for dinner. We aren't that creative for lunch, but we are slowly getting her used to various things and she eats a huge range of fruit, which is good.

And loves the pointless cucumber!

10.5 - 11 hours' sleep last night. Awake now though. Sigh.