Dec 06 - a new one for Indith and her rubbish dial up!

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New thread for our incessant chatter!

I'm here. Feeling a bit better and DDs are on the mend too. Goldfish is now sick though

Very pleased with myself as I let the council leaf blower cleaner man use my loo so he swept all the leaves of the front of my garden (normally they just do the road).

I'm around too. Around and and

Yesterday ds had a 2 hour nap in the morning and today went for 2.5 hours just an hour after getting up!

Now he has shouted at his lunch, eaten his yoghurt, then stole half my biscuit, ate a whole satsuma and has now stolen half my cheese on toast.

Anyone else with a bf baby now thinking in a very [generally cheeky] way 'well I'll be a bit miffed if I find mine is the 1 in 10 that doesn't have the clever gene now'

I've always thought mine was a bit daft you know

I foresee mayhem soon in the Indith household. Ds may not yet be pulling himself to his feet but once he is up he is dangerously good

Meant to say poor goldfish but the veg box came!

I want fish but I'm afraid, used to have them as a kid and they always died of white spot, fin rot, mouth rot etc. Think the longest we had one for was 6 weeks!

Eli & FGS & families glad you are on the mend!

Can I ask what sounds like a silly question, but how much food do yours eat in a meal, now Hannah has stopped throwing up (as much) and is starting to actually eat, I am finding it very hard to gauge what amount she should be eating!

I managed to give her half a stage 2(190g) jar and half a yogurt the other day and that is the most she has ever eaten without being sick, and was all excited but then thought, but how much should she be eating?

Also have you introduced egg and if you have, in what format?

Phew! Was beginning to suspect pandemic - not far wrong, if all those sick ones are anything to go by: glad you're all on the mend, hurrah

WB, I think thast probably what dd eats in one sitting - she never ever eats more than half a petit filou size pot of yoghurt, to date. But its very hard to tell because she's 100% BLW so we give her masses, and she mashes/drop/flings/sucks various amounts. I haven't figured a way to deduct what I wipe from the floor, her, her bib and her tray from what I gave her, IYSWIM.

That said, she's not eating enough according to HV - so I'm trying to spoon some in while she squawks and feeds herself at the same time. And she's still on 3 milke feeds of about 200mls each per day.

We had a letter from ENT bloke who said dd has 'grade 4 tonsils and middle ear effusions' I think she had a cold at the time, but still, grade 4 tonsils on top of laryngomalacia would explain her frequent night wakings, difficulty eating, etc. Looks like she may well be headed for tonsillectomy when older - but refuse to think about it now.

Indith, this is such a gloriously cheeky age - I too live in dread of pulling-up LO, especially as this one is tall

WB, are you giving her inbetween meal snacks? I'm giving Mischa small snack and water after her morning nap, then again after afternoon nap (sometimes even offer milk then, if its not too late in the pm). That can bump up the calories when they don't eat big meals - she ate a third of a banana and some bread this morning

now my DD is very small but a big eater.

A typical breakfast is 1 weetabix with milk plus a whole banana plus half a piece of toast.

Lunch might be 1/2 a ham sandwich plus 4-5 grapes plus 4-5 pom bear crips plus a whole petit filous.

Dinner might be 2 fishfingers plus some mashed potato plus carrots.

On a very good eating day, ds has a huge bowl of porridge at breakfast, morning snack of fruit and biscuit, mush of some sort at lunch and a petit filous (you know those avent storage pots? Just over half one of those of mush), afternoon snack is fruit and biscuit again and dinner is a bigger serving than lunch followed by a petit filous. Of course at the moment it is manic teething so he screams lots and only eats youghurt and porrige. It varies lots really. We have still not managed to get back to BLW but am attempting to get more texture back in (mini pasta shapes etc). He just started refusing to eat BLW style when teething and I think has since decided that spoons are more effective as an eating device. Sometimes he feeds himself fruit etc but mostly he is more interested in the squish coefficient of food, which just results in lots of squished food and a frustrated, hungry baby.

I quite often end up giving DD a yoghurt mid-meal as she gets frustrated at the slow pace of finger food. She'll be happily munching away at pasta, for example, then will throw a wobbler. I get some yoghurt, give her a few spoons, and then she carries on with the pasta.

Not conventional but it seems to work for her.

Wow! Go, mini-FGS

dd2 is on catch-up after her runny week, so managed three squarish meals today plus two snacks plus three bottles of milk. Dinner was maybe a couple of adult-sized bites of chicken pie, three baby spoonfulls of mashed potato, bits of carrot and broccoli, a few blueberries (she spits the skins out), and half a petit filou. More than normal, I think

Actually, come to think of it, I often do that yoghurt-in-mid-blw thing too, works well. Though yoghurt only works at all when dd isn't coldy, because she gets choky on mushy things.

I think the larynx plus the large tonsils (and probably adenoids) make swallowing tricky. Sigh.

dd1 ate just like Indith's ds, and like him when teething ate only petit filou!

I've lost track a bit but noticed your dd2 was on the mend, eli. Glad to hear it!

We've joined the snotty baby club Ds2 is still in a pretty good humor but very snarfley. He keeps waking up about every 2 hours at night b/c of congestion. So another week of crap sleep and then back to cc probably for us

Gah I spoke too soon, she had a cough just as she had dozed off this evening and everything came back, all her evening bf plus dinner cringe It was all over both of us and the sofa and the carpet, so we both went back in the bath. I really don't like the smell of sick!
Especially when you have cleaned everything you can think of and you can still smell it

Oh well, we see the dietician tomorrow and i was starting to feel like a fraud for going to the appt!

Oh I know, I hate that their sick smells of adult sick now! Ds brought a little bit up today but thankfully it was just milk!

Re cleaning up the sick, after the tummy bug hit our house I kept smelling sick around the house when doing the cleaning, then I realised I'd not cleaned the dustpan and brush

Please don't mention sick - everytime one of mine coughs I'm reaching for the sick bucket. ICK! Roll on summer, I say. I've had enough of these bugs now for one winter

DD2 isn't a huge eater at the moment. She has a few shreddies-type cereal for breakfast, a banana mid-morning, most of an avent strorage jar of something for lunch (today it was macaroni cheese, her very favourite thing), followed by some bits of veg (peppers, cucumber), and then a bit of what we're having for tea and some yogurt.

I can't get her to drink from a cup or bottle though, and I'm getting a little concerned as she starts nursery this week I've tried water, BM, cow's milk. Nada. She just isn't interested. Any tips from the trenches?

bp, what cups have you tried? With dd1, she got too frustrated with the Avent type ones, the only one she would use was the Tommy Tippy - she'd take that when nothing else worked.

Jabber, hope ds better soon - and thanks, yes, she's all bounce again, though also waking twice a night (and no excuse for Medised any more ). Teeth or sore throat, anyone's guess...

i'm putting this thread on watch and my November resolution is to try to log in more regularly than once every four months!!!

my boys are best friends at mo.lots of giggling and tickling and Spinababy locking his big brother in understairs cupboard! Apparently pushed him in while DS1 was getting something out and shut door on him! DS2 looks sweet but I think he's a bit of a potential hooligan!

back soon (i hope)

Eli, we've tried the non-valve cups, like Tommy Tippee, a Doidy cup, a standard mug, bottles ... Haven't tried a valve cup, I'll maybe pick one up today.

I'm sure that once the all-giving breasts aren't around she'll soon pick up that she has to drink from something else. DH is having them for a whole day next week (first time ), so we'll see how he gets on. But I would like to get her settled with something quickly.

And Spina, it's nice to see you! Spinababy sounds like he has a great career in security ahead of him

I said the other day that DD had her last breastfeed. At the time she was having no more than 1 oz of cows milk from a cup. A few dats on it increased to 4 oz and today she had about 5 oz. That is in the space of a week so they do get used to it, but we had tried for months with no success until I stopped b/f.

And hello spina

Ah yes, lock the boobs in a nice, new, non-maternity bra and all will go according to plan I remember worrying about transitioning dd1 from bottle to cup (bit older) but it did happen...now, dd2 is nearly 1, and its time to start thinking cows milk....how did that happen?!

Hello Spina! I think second children (I am one) are born hooligans, but very charming with it Your ds1 sounds lovely, perhaps he'd like to give my dd1 lessons in sibling play...

Am in a slightly foggy, coldy, coughy blur this morning which is strangely enjoyable. Sort of like there's a fine mist between me and responsibility

Hi Spina!

BP ds has gone from sips of water from a doidy to doing ok with a tommy tippee easy flow non teeth harming valve one with the valve taken out (not as daft as it sounds, the mouth bit is nice and comfy to suck on and taking the valve out makes it flow better) and now drinks pretty well from a bog standard tommy tippee free flow one. He has got much better at it since starting creche I think though I just didn't bother with milk for when he is there and he seems ok with that.

Indith, when you give LO satsumas, do you peel the segments or can they bite through to flesh?

The first couple of times i peeled it, then he got the hang of it. He now shoves the bits in his mouth and chews them to death. Sometimes he gives me the skins when he is done but mostly forgets and continues to shove bits in until his mouth is full of chewed satsuma skins and I have to fish them all out