June 2007 - the thread where everybody is healthy, has had a great night's sleep and fits into all their old clothes again.

[Sputnik]

Here we go. I was too sick, sleepy and preoccupied with my weight to notice the old thread running out

Milk question - DS has 8oz bottles first thing in the morning and immediately before bed. They are ff at the moment but I will switch them to cows' milk when he's one. He also has cow's milk on cereal and usually 2 yoghurts/fromage frais every day.

He was having smaller bottles mid-morning and mid-afternoon but I cut them out as he wasn't eating much. He now has a biscuit/toast/fruit pouch/bread stick instead. He has water through the rest of the day in one of these or one of these.

I will try and get him off bottles onto a cup for his milk as well, but from experience with DD, I don't think I'll do that for a while yet. DD still has a specific cup that she has her bedtime milk in so I'll probably gradually introduce the same for DS, once I drop his morning bottle.

Did I spot Fury, or was I hallucinating?

she was a figment of our imaginations ...

Afternoon!

Back at work for me today, I'm much better. And finally got hungry for the first time in almost 48 hours, so just had a great lunch

The jamlet still has milk from bottles on nursery days, and drinks water from one of the Tommee Tippee cups. I have just noticed, looking at the TT site, that they do these lids so I may well be getting some of them to try.

How are people's LOs doing re feeding themselves with a spoon. The jamlet can feed herself finger foods pretty well, though there is the inevitable pile of debris, and sometimes has a go with the spoon but not much. Now this may be down to me being reluctant to let her keep turning the damn thing upside down and spilling food everywhere instead of getting in in her mouth? But she does mostly seem happy to let me feed her. SHould I prepare myself for the mess, give her a spoon and encourage her get on with it? Or is it normal to be largely spoon fed at this age?

we are somewhere in beween jammy with the self feeding tbh it depends where I am how much time I have and how much mess I have already cleared up that day

I'm the same with self feeding and spoon feeding. I load the spoon and she takes it off me and shovels it in. Yougurts etc, I feed . I find as she fills up, she plays around more and wants to do it herself....and if I don't let her, she spits it out into her hand and puts it back in her mouth herself

I use the same cups as Jammy and FF and we get water everywhere if I don't close the spout. Andie, I've got 3 of those cups but do you cut off the spout plasitc thing inside the soft spout IYKWIM? I can't get anything out of them, let alone DD - or am I being very thick?

norty I haven't done anything to them and ds2 manges fine maybe he has a super suck

I agree those cups can spill if she plays with them. I bought 3 at randon from different places, and found that they have different numbers of holes in the spout. So if I'm giving her a cup to have relatively unattended I make sure it's the one with just one hole in. The other ones leak that much more that I make sure I am watching fairly closely if she has one of those. I've been told though that they are better for the LO that the anti-leak type, but can't remember why exactly now.

oh - perhaps she's now used to using a cup i'll try them again...thanks

I swapped to the non spill as ds was sitting with it and letting it all pour out onto the table floor etc now he fills his mouth with water and spurts it out like a whale

And yes, the jamlet is the same with the spoon, as she fills up she is more likely to want to grab the spoon off me and play with it/have a go herself.

at the whale impression

probably cos its hard work getting anything out of non-spill ones at first Jammy - which is why I went for those. I may try here again on the others though now she knows what to do

I have also used those bottles Jammy - the only way I could get her to hold her own bottle rather than me keep doing it

right, back to work....shouldn't even be here

hello!

LOL at Whales....DD pours it into the tray of her highchair and smacks her hands in it ...she does this in the bath as well and everyone gets soaked....water in her face doesn't bother her one bit luckily

Right, really off now...later x

Hi Fury - and bye (sorry) nice to see you though

Hi - quick check in.
Our dental nurse advises against the non-spill spouts. Apparently they have to suck so hard it may do some damage to teeth formation . She gave me a TT hard spout cup & DD certainly got on a lot better with it than the non-spill type.

Oh and with the b/f - now I'm back at work DD has morning feed (7ish), one when I get home from work (between 4-5pm) then bedtime (7ish). She had EBM in the day until stocks ran out so now has cow's milk but she doesn't take much. At weekends she takes a lunchtime feed too, & any wee snacks she can grab in between.

Also on the spoon feeding, I have always loaded the spoon & handed it to her & she manages to shovel it in quite well. Now that DH does brekkie & lunch she has reverted to baby-bird mode (DH can't stand the mess)& it is a battle to get her to feed herself anymore. Unless its with her fingers, no contest there.

Mine does the whale thing too!

Feeling better than when i posted first thing. DH took DD to school and I persuaded the baby back to bed. Doc thinks his problem is a mixture of teething and sore throat. Here's hoping for a better night tonight.

Cold and raining here btw

Anyone heard from Fury today?

Christ-on-a-bike, my kids are in a baaaaaad mood.

Hi Tallulah!

Must say i hadn't thought about handing the spoon over yet. That's what I did with DD though.

Did someone give Fury some work or something?

I only hand it over when she snatches it.

Glad you are feeling better Sputnik.

Fury - work? Nah. She's probably arranging a party or something

Hi - I just handed her the spoon from her first tastes of baby rice & she has got better & better at getting it in. So am bit that DH seems to have undone all my hard work.

I think I would be too Tallulahbelle. When I do give her the spoon loaded up, she usually either tips it upside down to look at the bottom of the spoon (she really likes looking at the underside of things for some reason), scoops the food out with her other hand, or if she does put it in her mouth she doesn't get the food off it and jsut pulls it out again still loaded up with food and then tips it upside down.

LOL Jammy - it's a messy process for sure. If she won't take the spoon from me I place it on the tray of the highchair & she will pick it up. Then it's 50:50 whether it goes in the mouth or gets tipped up.

errr...hello?