April 2006 (new thread) - Pick up the pace!!

[NattyandThomas]

hey guys, brand new clean thread.. thought it might inspire you guys to WRITE something once in a while! lmao

TBH I think they just wean themselves off milk, just following their lead. If you are throwing most of a feed away then stop offering it. We've already dropped the afternoon milk . She was drinking 2-3oz at best and if we were out it just 'got in the way', so we dropped it. She does have 8oz morning and night, so 14-16oz total + 4-5oz in her brekkie + yoghurts when she is at home so she gets her 18-20oz daily easily so we weren't worried about her dropping it.

When she has one of her I am not going to drink milk for a couple of days type moods I tend to give her milk with tea instead of water - to make up the volume IYSWIM.

At the moment she is having milk when she gets up (5:30am-7:30am) and then breakfast between 8 and 9 usually. I think the next step with the twins was to merge their milk and breakfast and which caused a gradual reduction in volume they were taking, until it was none. Leaving them with just a night feed (I think they were probably 18m ish by then).

DTDs started having it in a lidded beaker from abut 8-9m all the time as they weren't great milk drinkers and they took more from a beaker quicker than they did a bottle. Athough DD3 is crap with a beaker at the moment so we will be sticking to bottles for a bit with her.

HTH

Ponka - are you doing the Notts Mile for Maude? Is it still at Holme Pierrepont? I am not sure I can make it at the moment, but I am trying to rearrange things...

Brilliant, thank you very much... i know where i'm going now!! THANK YOU ladies! You are all wonderful mummies!

We stopped afternoon milk about 3 months ago.
DH is keen to drop formula now. I don't suppose it would hurt them.

TY Tonton - glad to know I am not alone.

It is worth pointing out that ulink Ponka's DS not all babies like the taste of cows milk straight off. If they seem to be rejecting it just mix 1 part cows + 3 parts formula for a couple of days, and graduly incease the strength of the cows milk IYSWIM

I thank you kindly, Slightly Mad Spring Bunny, for paving the way perfectly for what was to be my next post on here.

I am doing a Mile for Maude in Nottingham. I have set up a website. If any of you can spare a bit of money, please will you sponsor DS1 and I? DS2 will go in the buggy because we don't want to take all year to complete the mile!).

Here is my website

Cheers.

I think it is still at Holme Pierrepont, by the way. I'm trying to get in touch with Elf for more info. It would be great to meet you if you could make it.

Its DTDs birthday the week before so I am expecting a house full as my parents and ILs don't get on - so they have to be staggered!!! I will let you know closer to the time...

(and I don't expect to make anywhere near £500!!!)

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Just wrote a big message then when I hit "post message" it vanished.

Can't bebothered to write it all but the jist of it was:
ds has 5oz milk followed straight away by oatibix or yoghurt and 6-8oz at bed. Hasn't had afternoon milk for about 4 months.
Planning to give him cows milk once current tin of formula is finished. Should be around his birthday.
He's good with juice in beaker so hopefully will take milk from it when I go onto cows milk.
Can't wait to stop washing and sterilising bottles.

What do you all think about the sugar question? i gave dd2 petit filous once then remembered it was full of sugar. She hasn't ahd it since - am i being over-catious?

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I give ds petit filous a lot. I haven't looked at if the sugar content varies between different brands of yoghurt and fromage frais. Never crossed my mind (is that bad?)
Fromage frais are easier to feed him as they are thicker so stay on the spoon better.
Ds has a yoghurt type thing most days. Since he stopped being so keen on milk I've been trying to make sure he gets his calcium in other ways.
Question is (and there prob isn't a conclusive answer), does the calcium benefit outway the sugar badness?

I do make sure ds teeth are cleaned every day but then I know that's not the only bad thing about sugar.

I don't care about the sugar in petit filous (we use Muller fromage frais but I assume they are all much of a muchness)...I think at this age the sugar concerns are 2-fold - tooth decay (which can be combated by proper brushing) and developing a 'sweet tooth' leading to the risk of tooth decay later on.

TBH I don't find yoghurts that sweet, and whats the alternative pudding for a LO that is not incredibly sweet or packed full of rubbish? We give pureed fruit (or Frutapura) once a day - which is very sweet and fromage frais once a day for the calcium.

If there anyone finds anything more deadly in a yoghurt - please feel free to correct me.

I know what you mean debi - i wonder that too - ie calcium/minerals vs. sugar.
She won't eat plain yoghurt. How do Madonna/Gwyneth paltrow and all the ohter macrobiotic mums get their kids to eat such healthy food

Poor you wrigglejiggle - dd2 has suddenly started crying a lot more. Moaning. Hating me leaving the room etc.

Just as well am about to start new fulltime job - back to being evil career mum again!

Greek yoghurt mixed with one of those fruitapura pots goes down well. That shouldn't have much sugar in it.

So far we've been very lucky with ds, he's been at the childminder 3 days a week for 2 weeks now and hasn't been clingy at all. The first week he smiled when we dropped him off and cried when we picked him up! Good job I'm not insecure!

OK ladies you can call off the search party. My dear aunt arrived home safe and sound this morning ...

Phew!

SMSB - I was beginning to think your post on 11th March was some kind of premention!!!

Poor you WriggleJiggle. Have things got any better for you now? What do you think it is?

I'm one of these everything in moderation type Mums so DS2 tucks into petit filous on a regular basis. In fact, I have to confess he helped me eat my double chocolate cookie today, too! I think that if you deprive of sugar too much, it may end up pushing them into wanting it more further down the line. I know that there's plenty of MNetters who would disagree with me on that front, though.

I don't actually record my dates, but this month did genuinely seem a bit long

As a kid I was never allowed junk food, hardly ever got sweets/crisps etc and we didn't have a tv (in fact my mum and dad stil don't). When I went to uni and was in catered halls I ate for Scotland! And became a telly addict! I'm not so bad now but still don't eat as healthily as my parents do and can't live without Corrie and Sky+!

Everyone seems to be doing very well on this thread! dd3 is one at the end of April. She is an adrenaline junkie and I am sure if she had been a boy we would assume this was because she was a boy IYSWIM!

Loves: climbing stairs
pushing her highchair round the kitchen
playing in dd2s room
Eating
SHE NEVER STOPS crawling aruond and standing up poking things

Hates: having her face washed/nose wiped
Me not being able to give her a cuddle when she is tired (she sits on the floor holdiing her arms up imploringly until I have finished with dd1 and dd2)

she in uninterested in toys but loves hairclips, brushes and combs, saucepans, sunglasses, mobile phones and keys

So what are you getting the los for their fuirst birthdy? I can't avboid it as dd1 expects it!
Thinking of buying one of these for dd2's first birthday. They look fun but quite expensive! Anyone had one?
animalwheelytoy

Those bug things are cool, I thought about getting one but then dhs auntie has bought ds a normal sit and ride as an early birthday present which he loves but don't think he really needs 2.

We're getting a baby swing (which comes with the normal 'big boy' swing seat too) and a fisher price happy land aeroplane (which he's still a bit small for but dh wanted to get him a plane as when we last flew to Scotland he (ds not dh) stood for ages watching the planes. Think a friend is getting him the happy land Noah's ark too.

All the grandparents etc keep asking what he needs but he doesn't really need anything and he definately doesn't need clothes.

Hi Enid, I know what you mean about not playing with toys. DS2 plays with toys but is always trying to get his hands on keys, mobiles, glasses, remote controls, DVDs...... The list goes on.

I like that bug Tonton. We've already got a couple of ride- ons though. With just over a week to go, we still don't know what we are getting DS2. Either a paddling pool and some other bits and pieces like books, he loves books. Or a playhouse for the garden joint with DS1 for his birthday in May. Pepperrabbit, help me!!! What are you getting? (PR's DS1 is also exactly the same age as my DS1). I really feel like we have already got everything we could get for DS2 for DS1 IYSWIM! When I was searching for playhouses I happened to put them in order of most expensive first. The list started with a 2 story tudor playhouse with real wood floors for £25,500 {shock] We sold our REAL house for around that about 6 or 7 years ago!!! Who has that kind of money???

I have started a new thread for us. i thought this one had got a bit long and now seemed like a suitable time for a new one.

here it is