April 2004 Babies part 6 (we can count correctly!)

[Yorkiegirl]

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I gave ds a rice cake yesterday - cow and gate baby one - you should have seen the look on his face!!! Played with it for ages, but when he tasted it - was exactly how I look when I try rice cakes..!! So it ended up being a soggy mess all over his top/chair/trousers/me...!

good morning !
hope you all had a good night , with ill babies and teeth and such
feel as if coming out the other end of some kind of tunnel now and feel that I have lost a whole week
starting to freak a bit about xmas now , ( i know already )
its just that i am nervous about budgeting on one wage this yr and time as well - where is it all going I think that the babies steal it when you are not looking ! ha

dot - I can never see the appeal of rice cakes. Once I tried making Annabel Karmel rusks for dd1 but she didn't like them so now they all just get bread and toast. dried apple rings are good to chew on too.

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Sorry to hear sleep is no better for you Yorkiegirl. I've purposely avoided talking about ds and sleep so as not to rub it in for the sleep deprived, but I am really very lucky. Dd wasn't a great sleeper as a baby though, so I have been there.

Did you get the photos that I sent for inclusion in the April babies album? I sent them to the email address that you gave a couple of days ago....

yorkiegirl - I am about to try the cheesy pasta stuff but I hate making cheese sauce so dd3 has to make do with just the old veg and fruit purees til I get a fit of enthusiasm.

I have a lovely updated photo of dd3, I will send it to the photobucket after I've edited me out of the background!

have lost 1 stone in last 3 months, hurrah! only a stone or so to go to pre-dd3 weight.

I'm trying RB on lumpy food now by not mashing things as much but she sucks the soft bit off them ejects the lumps out all over the place!
I have tried a few finger type foods like banana and soft toast which she enjoys as she feels like eating mummy's food.Any tips?

I've not tried fingerfood yet babybliss - apart from the odd pea (welcome to the April babies thread, by the way!)
Anyone know the answer to this ?

we've given dd real yoghurt and she was ok. Actually gave it at 4.5mths on the plane as she was hungry and wanted something NOW as they do.
Very excited about the weekend being just around the corner. Have a good trip up north MrsD.
Fennel I have made up a batch of white cheese sauce and have frozen it (I made it out of follow on milk sample sachets)then I can just pull out a square with certain combinations of food.

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Sorry Yorkiegirl - wasn't chasing you! ...just wanted to make sure that I had got the right email address

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Thank you Chuffed. Hi ladies! I hope you are all okay. I don't have much to say at the moment (You all heave a sigh of relief) I am feeling a bit like you, HMC Things are dandy in the Doolittle household . We are looking forward to our trip to Scotland next week though.

HD I have given dd bio yoghurt from about 4 months too. Deliberately too!

Is work going okay Yorkiegirl? ...I start back next Monday ...urgghhhhhhh

Mrs Doolittle - when do you go to Scotland, at the weekend? In case I don't post again between now and then have a great time. BTW great thread you started re whether babies are boring etc - really got discussion going. You may have noticed that I crossed swords with someone called mummylove (I think that was her name)!...

YG, we had an attempted delivery on Tues - being redelivered Sat - maybe that's the steriliser? I'm very glad to be getting it now, as it's very likely dd and I do both have thrush - my symptoms are sore nipples (thought I'd left all that behind...!). Spoke to doc on the phone this afternoon and am picking up prescriptions tomorrow. Steriliser will help (and so will yoghurt!)

Thanks Chuffed and MrsD for replying re the yogurt. HMC, good luck - how many days will you be working?

Morning all. Tried DD with some soft toast this morning and DH put some marmite on a piece.YUK!!
DD wasn't sure at first but then launched it across the room so I guess she feels the same as me on the Marmite issue.

LOL babybliss I don't like marmite either but it is supposed to be good for them. Try diluting it in boiling water and putting it on. I think Fennel said her dd1 didn't like them either. I have prepared a batch of rusks to try out on dd later.
Gosh all this finger food stuff, doesn't half create a mess.
Well I am on annual leave now Hooray! Thankyou HMC and Cuffed for your good wishes, although we aren't going to Scotland til next Thursday. I am going to see my parents this weekend and then dm and I are going to Scotland to see my newly married sister. Which will be interesting. Particularly as dm thinks I am giving dd too much milk and that she should be on cows milk by now. I can already feel my hackles rising!!!

how do you prepare rusks? I thought you just made them up like weetbix, am I completely wrong?

I think mrsD means as a finger food with marmite on - am i right?
no marmite in denmark altho I loathe the stuff myself

up 4 times in night - 2ce with dd2, and 2ce with 4yo ds, who has taken to coming into bed with us. managed to head him off back into his own bed with landing light on... feel for him, but missing my sleep and my space in bed

hello
we seem to have gone backwards on the foof front since ds illness , we are slowly building back up managed to get a whole pot of fruit puree down , not the old faithful pf , came stright back @ me - nice
we are keeping water , jiuce and milk down so think will just keep going
pants.............pants ...pants

Sorry to learn that dolbear Atleast ds is managing his milk though

Chuffed - your thinking of Farleys rusks, which you can put water over and make them soggy. Alternatively you can give them as they are, biscuits. Which is what rusks meams really. Homemade rusks are usually bread baked so slowly it doesn't go brown but just hard, like stale bread. I cut up some granary bread last night and put some diluted marmite over it and baked it slowly, as suggested by Annabel Karmel.

Ooh that sounds like a good way to get a bit of use out of slightly stale fresh bread from the market.
We are vegemite eaters ourselves so dd would get diluted vegmite which she rather enjoys.

I'm thinking I might need to get that Annabel Karmel book out of the library as I think dd's meals must be getting boring, I'm bored with them.

ditto bored with dd2's food. If I see another sweet potato... mind you, she doesn't seem to care

dolbear - sorry to hear it's gone a bit pear-shaped. I'm sure it won't hurt just to give it a break for a few days - let him have just juice milk and water.

He'll get everything he needs if milk is staying down ok - then when his digestion is recovering, a bit of bio yogurt would help to restore those 'friendly' bacteria .
If you are trying chicken, that is the most digestible meat. Also good are white fish & rice. The fruit may be too acidic/sugary to stay down.

HTH
Tx

Marmite - yum yum yum. my dd1 and dd2 eat lots, but DP hates it passionately.
Farleys rusks are very sugary apparently.

had a hellish day today. as if being woken by dd3 at 6.15 wasn't bad enough (clocks change still not affected her timing) I was feeding her and drifting back to sleep when covered in a pool of cold snotty vomit. Uggh. All 3 dds have colds today and are whingey and whiney. horrible horrible children to be at home with all day. am now sozzled with wine and leaving them all downstairs with DP, while awaiting a weekend visitor - the Friend who Hates Children. Just what we need when all 3 are at their worst....

HMC I enjoyed your posts on that enjoying small babies thread. I am a fan of Highlander's refreshing honesty too.

Annabel Karmel has a recipe for making rusks from scratch. but don't bother, that's what my dd1 didn't like. sort of in between toast and biscuit.

Mrs D enjoy your weekend and travel light!