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

Hi, sorry, think I just posted a blank message! Meant to say that I'm finding a mixture of purees and BLW is working well - I sit on the fence with everything. In the morning I use 2 cubes (3cmX3cm) fruit with babyrice/porridge/cereal (+bottle milk ~ 4oz), midmorning snack mixture of pieces of fruit/cucumber/avocardo/small piece rusk/white bread (is just for fun - dd loves to grab and squeeze things next to her mouth, most ends up on floor or me, but I try to get a bottle of milk in too, 5-6oz), lunch is 3 cubes veg+meat (organic chicken or beef) mixed with babyrice/mash/sweetpotato mash & milk (+beaker of water - again more to practice with), snack later as before, then tea (similar to lunch but with 4oz milk) and final bottle of up to 8oz milk (I stir milk into her food too). You'd think she would be massive, but was 16oz 2 at 6 mth(same smooth just below average for girl growth curve all way through - I'm v. short so unfortunatley she prob will be too). Good news is now she isn't constantly sick, doesn't have painful cramps (colic for first 7 weeks and ongoing pains occasionally after) and sleeps 7-7 + 3 hrs in day. I sit on the fence with food types too, will try small amounts of rusks/bread/cereals/jars,but mainly make and freeze. Talking about poo kiwi fruit can be timed (i.e. easy to identify the seeds at the end of the day!). Just remembered I read & use a really good tip about iron - dried organic apricots are supposed to be good - and they're great for babies to suck on (the middle bit - I have to get a grip on 1 end so she doesn't try to swallow whole tho - go well in purees too). Just as things are really settled for me I'm getting near to going back to work. Anyone who has already started got advice - things they wish they had done/thought about?

I think you have to be a bit careful with kiwis, i think they can cause allergies.
Have you tried rice cakes rather than rusks? they have apple juice instead of sugar to sweeten them, rusks are about a 1\3 sugar (dont kunw about lo sugar ones).

Anyone else still up every two hours at night despite weaning? Please Lord, let me not be the only one!

We did, found that he was feeding more in the day than at night, so we went for it and did cc (hides to see if anything gets thrown), did changed it slightly as the problem was not that he cant go to sleep on his own, just habbit.

For 2 night i have not fed him for 7 hours after his feed at 11 when we go to bed.
If/when he wakes dh goes to him checks his nappy, offers him some water and if he needs it teething gel.
Then sits on the floor till he settles so he is not on his own, witch if now in abou 5 min.
Woke twice last night at 3.30 and 5, i then fed him at 6.30 when he woke.
We were already doing wher dh would go if he had only been fed an hour or two before (for about 2 weeks) so it was not that much of a shock to him.

Hi Littlepiggie, Thanks for the suggestion, I've now tried rice cakes too thanks to Mums suggesting them on this site - dd thought they were great fun to hold and chew/squeeze. I do use lo sugar rusks and only give 1/2 to hold, remove when about 1/4 chewed. I didn't know that kiwis could cause allergic reactions. But I try a small amount of a new foodtype early in the day for the first time just in case there are any probs, and avoid nuts/eggs. Yellowfish, sorry if you're sick of hearing the method that I tried: I don't think that weaning is the only thing helping dd to sleep, we did also use controlled crying to help her settle (in the day - naps - was the easiest way to start). Once she could settle in the day I started to give her a very dilute drink at night when she woke so that she didn't 'eat' at night then started to try to help her settle at night without a feed, then gave longer before going in, didn't pick up. Dh found it harder than me and I had a battle to try to be consistent, felt more like crying with frustration that I had seen it work in the day but he didn't have patience at night. Eventually he agreed to wait downstairs at night while I settled dd and although a bottle would have helped her to sleep more quickly, she did sleep by being reassured (i.e stroke head, whisper word sleep) leave, repeat every min, then 2 min, then 3 min etc. Sorry again if you've heard and tried this.

With us it has to be dh as he will be able to smell me, and i think it a bit crule holding out on somthing i know he wants and does not understand why he cant, so now he sort of knows that if dh goes to him then there is no milk and goes to sleep, but if i go then he knows there will be and gets giddy, very cute.

hello everyone, just found your thread! hope you don't mind if i join you

to introduce us: dd turned 6 months on friday. she's my first and it's really great now as she is becoming real fun to be with - laughing lots, chatting away to herself, crawling around, smashing her head on the floor every five minutes and got her first tooth yesterday! started weaning about 10 days ago too. it's butternut squash for lunch today!

i'll have a quick read through the thread later and see what you're all up to with your lo's.

nice to meet you all

SunnyDevon. This is my understanding of the allergy thing:

The allergies thing is not just about the possibility of an immediate reaction. For some foodstuffs like peanuts the reason you avoid introducing them early (or eating them in pregnancy) is because the gut just isn't ready & you end up 'sensitizing' them to the food. They could go for weeks/months/years eating the food happily then all of a sudden they get an allergic reaction - from which they will suffer for life. How they put this allergy down to early exposure I am not sure. Latex allegies (although unrelated to this) are definately something that can result from sensitisation over time in a similar way.

Probably not a major concern if there is no history of allergies in the family. You look to be avoiding the major allergens anyway - egg & peanuts. When you do introduce egg do the yokes first as it is the white which is the major allergen.

Welcome MissyBabee BTW...

hi missy

welcome missybabee

Hi MissyBaBee
Welcome to the thread

Hi all, sorry I've been absent for a while, felt a bit blue after our hols and needed to pull myself together, nothing serious - just a shopping and new hairdo crisis, and one night away from the two boys with some girlfriends. Feel much more in control now.
DS2 is weaning for britain, waited till 6 months (as I posted before and then HV told me to "fasttrack") I did breakfast, then tea after a while and just on sat started "lunch" and he ate absolutely loads, felt almost guilty that I hadn't offered before! though it does mean that every nappy is a horrid nappy... I'd forgotten that bit.
Also DH (who never does anything by halves) cooked a vat load of parsnips and cauliflowers for pureeing, put them in iidentical ice cube trays - I have different coloured ones for his sort of thing, and i have absolutely no idea which is which till I've defrosted them.
Consequently parsiflower and caulinip have been added to our diets. Thank god he didn't do pear at the same time

pepperrabbit,

a dh that cooks. .

aka unmellow/unhallowed for bonfire nite

hd does lots of cooking, but he is a chef

anybody else doing BLW?
Put a picture on member profiles a few days ago of ds eating. (what good table manners)

I tried but my dd is probably not ready and a bit lazy. She won't hold the food in her hand, she just opens her mouth wide and lunges for the food so it's back to breaking food into really small pieces and feeding it to her.

Kind of doing a bit of both. She scoffs bananna & scoffed a chip the other night. Mostly doing purees though.

Off to check out pic of MasterPiggie...

love Master Piggie (will use that)

DS just fell out of his bumbo!!! I thought that was meant to be impossible. Flat on his face on kitchen floor while reaching for a toy. He's fine, stopped crying the instant I picked him up.

Dd fell flat on her face on the tiled floor in the bathroom. She didn't cry for very long. I'm amazed how hardy their little heads are .

poor little things.
master piggie had spag bol for tea tonight, but was more interested in garlic bread, he does seem to have a bread thing going on.

hello everyone do you mind if i join in too??
Been following the thread but havent had a chance to join in.
My ds is 6 months, i have been weaning him for about 3 weeks now and thats going really well but cant seem to manage blw yet, he sleeps through from about 7.30 ish until 6 and has done since being about 6 weeks old, no teeth yet and still isnt crawling but is rolling round the floor.
I look forward to talking to you all

welcome fifi

littlepiggie are you trying to give master piggie the same food as you're eating? Or had you made him spag bol just for him? I'm making up stuff and freezing it but I am beginning to think that ds has been on solids for long enough now to cope with eating some of the same foods as we're eating.
I am also quite good at puting things in the freezer without labels so what he gets to eat can be a surprise to us both!

We have a tooth, just a tiny bit poking through the gum but it's definately there, and thankfully it doesn't seem to be bothering him.