Oct 2007; This little piggie had loads of roast beef and ^This^ little piggie would have none of it!

[Dalrymps]

Psst over here!

I think at this age they only need 12 oz, so if its more its no problem, likewise if it is only 12oz

STOP WORRYING!!!!!

Yeah I was thinking that it's cute now but when he is older and people ask what his first word is they might think we are a bit asbo!

Shannon has 2 x 7oz and 1 x 8 oz a day, but its follow on milk which i think is more of a drink than filling, mind you, she doesn't each a real lot of food, i may be starving her!
actually, can i see what everyone elses los are having in a day please?

ours is
7.30am bottle and half a weetabix
12.00 small bowl of food and half a banana or biscuit
4pm bottle
5pm small bowl of food or various finger food of what we're having
7.30pm bottle

ps Stefka-i think its great you're still bf, and ft and who else?
Boob is a great first word!!

hi all .... I have a rare afternoon off - dh has taken both children to the PiLs for the afternoon - I'm about to go and watch some crap tv and put my feet up!

tLES - I am so sorry to hear about your uncle - unfortunately, your experience with the stepdaughter) (think that was it), is not at all unusual - death certainly brings out the very worst in some people - I think the poem is wonderful!

Stefka - at first word being boob! Mairwen just comes up and goes for the lifting up of the top option, or she tries to go down my top - either way it looks pretty funny (not when I'm out, mind!) I must say that I'm enjoying bf more than I ever have done - now that Mairwen is actually appreciating the milk I'm giving her, and realises that the milk only comes as she likes it from me, then it feels less like something I'm forcing on her, and more like a pleasurable thing for both of us. Am not going to be giving up bf any time soon! Am more emotionally uncomfortable feeding her in public now though - it somehow seems not so acceptable to be bf a toddler in public - in fact, I may go and start a thread on that ... then stand back and watch it explode!

J20 - M has
6.30am (ish - can happen any time from 5am onwards - 6.30 is about the latest ) bf
7am - breakfast - porridge / cheerios / weetabix, toast, banana
8am (at childcare) - toast and butter
10.30am - biscuit
11.30am - lunch - sandwich (cheese, tuna, ham) or beans on toast, fruit, yogurt
3pm - biscuit
4.30pm - bf (when I pick her up from childcare)
5.30pm - tea - whatever we're eating, yogurt / ice cream, fruit
6.30pm - bf

Usually 2 more bf between then and 6.30am the following morning.

So, although I haven't started her on eating milk, she's getting her calcium hit from the yogurt and other dairy she eats.

Happy birthday to all our babies! Am going to go and watch crap tv now!

love E x

Crochet;when you start the toddler bfing thread can I join in?..please?..pretty please??? seriously though I understand how you feel...tonight I brought Alex home from inlaws early rather than feed him there now, they think he should have been off the breast 3 months ago

J20. Hope you had a wonderful nights rest.As to what Alex eats..well

6.30/7am bf
7.30 breakfast - 2 farleys rusks or porridge,& banana & fromage frais
10.00 toast or cookies
12.00 bf
12.30 lunch - soup and sandwich/spanish omlette/cheese on toast/avocado,cheese & ham
2pm sultanas or fresh fruit or other snack
4pm bf
6pm dinner - whatever we are eating, tonight bouef bourginonne, 1/4 jacket potato, carrot and cauliflower cheese, sponge and custard
8pm bf
12.30ish bf
3.30ish bf

I know what you mean. I am bracing myself for the 'are you still feeding him' comments already. I don't get why people are so weird about it - it's totally natural!

7.30 breakfast - 2 weetabix or cornflakes and a bottle 8oz
10.00 sleeping with a bottle 8oz lol
12.30 lunch - Noodles, sandwich, marmite on toast, sausage and scrambled egg or Macaroni cheese and a bottle 8oz (not all of these mind lol)
2.30pm cheese on toast and a yoghurt
4pm bottle 8oz
6 pm onwards lol dinner - whatever we are eating, tonight home made chicken soup and mash 6oz btl
then bottles when he wants until he nods off about 8.30 until the next morning yippeee

omg i just read everyone elses lo's food intake and milk intake....... now i am worried am i over feeding zachmeister??? I let him eat when he wants

gosh i dpn't think i give Eren as much as that....

6.30/7am 2 weetabix with 5oz milk
10.30 6oz milk
1.30 spaghetti Bolognese or beef casserole or scrambled eggs....(anything with protein basically)
4.30 - fruit crumble +custard or semolina and fruit
7.30 - 6oz milk

I don;t really give Eren any snacks except for some raisins when we are out and about and he gets bored. Snacks seem to ruin his appetite..... maybe i should try again....??

RL is very full on at the moment. Work is busy, stressful and not much fun at all. I'm udes to leaving Eren now, but i'm not seeing him much. My 4 day working week is turning into 5 day week I'm seriously thinking of leaving and working in M&S just so i have a better quality of life with my family as not seeing them much these days.

Went out today to get some bits for Eren's birthday party next weekend... am soo excited.

hello to everyone.
LES i'm sorry to hear about your uncle too.

Interesting to read what everyone else feeds their LO's. I feel bad because Dareh only has one weetabix! I think I will try him with two incase he is hungry. His day goes -

7 or 5am (hopefully 7!) BF
8am - weetabix/readybrek and some fruit
10:30 - snacks - bits of apple, breadsticks, a biscuit
12:30/1ish - toast and cheese/a sandwich/scrambled egg and toast - that sort of thin and yogurt
At some point in the afternoon - when he asks - BF
3:30ish - snacks - biscuit/breadstick/rice cakes
5pm - tea - salmon/chicken and potatoe, pasta and pesto or sweet potato and cous cous etc. banana or yogurt or both.
7pm BF

Stefka
Zachary loves pasta and pesto with cheese and also spinah and ricotta pasta (like ravioli) with a fresh cream and tomato sauce (which I make) in fact all i can think of that he doesn't like is brussell sprouts

stafka-Shannon only has half a weetabix and no snacks to speak of! Maybe i am starving her. good to know what all the other babies eat, maybe i should miss a bottle out somewhere and introduce more snacks.

when ds1 was a baby he was always hungry and now Zachary is the same........ why do i have small babies who end up eating so much????? {envy}

arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
after eveything that happened last week for Shannons birthday party and all the promises that Leonie made about not helping herself to sweets, I came down this morning to find that she'd taken some brandysnap out of the packet that we got from the fair last night. yet again, i didn't think to put it out of sight, but i am so angry with her.

Shannons been up, screaming all night again.

time for some kalms i think.

J20,
I really do feel for you I am still going though this with karl!! You have my number if you wanna shout n scream n get it all off your chest honey

thanks LES, tbh i just feel shattered all the time and when i think about it it depresses me, maybe i should just let it go...

J20
I do know how you feel. You expect more of Leonie just as i do of karl. Karl will not only take sweets, crisps etc but I buy him and Zachary their own yoghurts, Knowing Karl loves dr who I paid £2+ for 6 dr who frube yoghurts and bought Zachary normal frubes so karl ate his in 2 days and then proceeded to eat Zacharys. He is like this with most things as well. If i buy something for me he will eat it. If it is a drink he will drink it. Now don't get me wrong I don't do this often but sometimes I buy somethign specifically for me as I think i deserve it once in a while lol and he will scoff it before i get a look in.

It is stressful I know and thats why I said if you wanna call I am here for you honey xx

Such a lot to catch up on. Things have been so busy lately, especially at work - I've got a pensions exam on Wednesday and my boss is telling me I need to see more clients (which is ok, but there's so much paperwork involved!) But I'm now being stricter about my hours, trying to keep Monday as my day off for instance, so that will help a bit.

Thank you for all the lovely birthday messages for Anya. She had a wonderful birthday. She loved her weekend party - she just so enjoys being the centre of attention. Then on her real birthday we went to Tatton Park - we were hoping to go to a petting farm that they have there but it had closed the end of September for the winter! She still saw some donkeys and sheep on the lanes though and there was a playground that she thought was great fun. She got so many presents, we've not even given all of them to her to play with yet! Favourites so far are an activity table with lots of musical stuff on, a pull-along caterpillar, and a dancing Minnie Mouse, which is really irritating! Her secret santa present was a ball which is great on the laminate floor - she chases it such a long way!

Happy belated birthdays to Adam, Rory, Ben, Shannon, Olly, Huw.

Choc - great to hear from you, glad everything's going well, although I sympathise with the working mum juggling thing!

Have read everybody's posts but forgotten what everybody said. J2O - hope Shannon is now fully recovered - it is such a terrible bug! LES - sorry to hear about your uncle - hope you can get through it ok.

Anya finally got her just desserts yesterday for playing with the DVD player even though she's repeatedly told off and moved away from it. She pushed the button that opened the tray and it trapped her finger - no damage, just a bit red and swollen, but cue much screaming. But then she's still determined to play with it - how old are they before they do as they're told?!

What Anya eats -

7:00 milk
8:00 breakfast - cream cheese on toast, or cornflakes, fruit
10:30 snack - cheese or raisins
12:00 lunch - sandwich or scrambled egg or cheese on toast, yoghurt
3:00 snack - toast or cheese or fruit
4:30 milk
6:30 tea - whatever we're having + yoghurt or fruit
8:00 milk

Re cow's milk, I'm giving Anya half and half at the moment and she doesn't seem to have noticed the difference.

Hello to everybody. Will try to post more than once a fortnight!

hello everyone!
Olly's food routine is something like this:
6am ish - bf
7.30 - one weetabix and some fruit puree after
10am - snack of breadstick/biscuit/fruit stick
12.30 - lunch - cheese spread sandwich, couple of little sausages, cucumber/tomato/pepper, and a banana
3pm - bottle of cows milk (6oz ish?) and snack - breadstick, raisins etc
6.30pm - tea - whatever we're having as finger food, plus a yoghurt or fromage frais
8pm - bf before bed
We swapped to cows milk for the afternoon feed when I ran out of expressed breastmilk and didn't have time to restock the freezer. He seems to drink this just fine, and has water with his meals. He gets far too distracted to bf in public now, so at least that helps with the whole 'are you still feeding him at his age' looks....

Hope you are all ok. TLES, sorry to hear your news, hope you are getting on ok. Happy belated birthday Huw!
DH not feeling well today - hope he's not getting the dreaded sickness bug - so him and DS are both asleep upstairs, and have been since 8.30pm! So I am catching up with the Gilmore Girls on DVD...

Hey everyone.

As you all know, Dylan's eating is all over the place usually but i'll put his schedule down anyway. He's back on purres at the mo cause thats what he seems to want to eat...

8.30am fromage frais or babyrice with fruit puree

9.00 4-5oz of milk

1.00pm carrot potato and apple puree (about 1/2 a meduim jar) plus desert, usually 1/2 a pot of banana custard

2.00 4-5oz milk

5.30 chicken and squash puree/pasta and ham puree etc (1/2 a jar) plus desert, usually the other half of his banana custard or sometimes another fromage frais or a yogurty desert

6.30 4-5oz of milk

8.30 4-5oz milk at bedtime

In between his set meals we try to tempt him with hi calorie snacks such as cake or biscuits or homous or creamy/chocolaty things but like Mine's lo it sometimes ruins his apppetite a bit. Any snack he will take is a bonus though so we keep trying.

He doesn't finish every bottle he has but always usually has 18oz of his high calorie milk a day. He doesn't always finish every meal either, he might only take main at one meal and desert at another or only eat 2 out of his 3 meals a day but thats the basic plan we stick to.

Hope everyone is doing ok

good morning, how is everyone today?

Well, I have still got a stomach bug, and so has Shannon, she's had diarrhea for 10 days now, i'm having to get up in the middle of the night and bathe her, change her and do all the bedding, tried to get in to the GPs today, but the earliest is Wed moring, also going to see if i'm annemic as i am so exhausted all the time.

Anyone have any ideas what to do about the diarrhea? any foods i should avoid/give her?

J20; my doc told me to stay off the dairy products (except bf or formula in your case) suprisingly she said to keep pushing fruit and veg at him especially purees as they are quickly and easily digested and to keep hydrated with regular sips of flattened 7UP (a few secs in the microwave gets rid of the bubbles) as it is just as effective as rehydration sachets (dioralyte) but cheaper and much more palatable.
Someone on here reccommended the BRAT plan; bananas, rice, apple sauce and toast which seems to work.
And when my Mum was a nursery nurse they used to give children with "the runs" cheese sauce or boiled eggs to "bind" them ...but that goes contrary to modern thinking ...but anything is worth a try if the other suggestions dont work.
Hope she is better soon...it is truly dreadful ...Alex lost 2.3 kg and he only had it for 4/5 days.