September 08 Remember what we were doing this time last year?[wink]

[Debs75goldrings]

So what were we all doing this time last year?

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I don't have a recipe book stand but i covet one so i can become a proper grown up .

A mum I met today who has just started weaning said she offers small amounts of food then follows with milk, aiming for around a pint of milk a day (about 5-600mls of formula). Apparently if bf, or giving less than a pint of formula a day, you need to also give infant vitamin drops??
C not a great feeder so can see that applying to us.

hopefully - here but I've seen on other sites too (did a search some time ago but can't remember them all, though all around the same price).

I always wanted a book stand, well, when I was younger I had a picture of idillic home life in my head, with a perfectly clean tidy house, perfectly green garden grass, huge family kitchen with big bookstand! as it is, we live in a semi which we have outgrown, we're still putting house/garden right after the mess left by the previous owners, there's clean washing hanging/folded everywhere, oh, and xmsa decorations still up!

M is good at getting toys into her mouth, but the funniest thing is looking at her super-concentrated look when she follows her thumbs going slowly into her mouth and the proud-with-myself look that follows

Morning all,

Well the diet for me is well under way Hopefully, I am too sick of my wardrobe of maternity jeans. I have started jogging with a local running club again, and went to a postnatal exercise class yesterday. Erin was impeccably behaved, and I am aching.

I'm looking forward to weaning, however in three months time I may have regretted my naiveity.

Hope you are ok Meglet

Have a good weekend, I'm off to see Joseph tomorrow night and I am sooooo excited x

sick of leggins and big jumpers too... even though I put on a lot less than with DS, I am at the same weight compared to the same time after having him. not even eating much/junk. and because of the prolapse I can't run, so the treadmill has been re-homed. hoping the wii fit will help or will have to find a dvd ( am I really considering a dvd!?)

kagey - sometimes I even regret weaning DS 4 years on

starlight forgot to say DS did the headbanging thing for a short while (albeit without the yellow bruising) and eventually stopped doing it by himself (no matter what I said/did made any difference and so I just ignored it)

i've been looking at getting coleen nolans 'discoburn' dvd for a bit of fun and exercise and also one of the strictly dvds. but am i kidding myself that they will
a) actually work
b) that i will do them?

anyone have either of the strictly ones btw and reccommend either? one is flavia and one is camilla

It's funny isn't it. We spend almost all our time feeding babies trying to get them to grow and put on weight. Rewarding them and ourselves when they manage a few ounces a week and are really happy when they are up to weight. Then when we spend almost all our time trying to lose weight and get demoralisesd that we can only lose a few ounces a week. Oh to be a baby and not have to worry.
Seriously I really need to lose weight, I lost 2 and a half stone whilst pregnant and have put a stone of that back on already. Am going to start walking my poor neglected dog again and maybe start swimming

was thinking some dancy one too.. probably a strictly one though... I liked pilates, great for my back, but I prefer doing it with a qualified physio because of my back problems, but DP can never garantee when he'll be home, so no gym for me

oohh nice, milk going in one end and coming out the other as I type.....sounds like 3rd explosion of today...

Re: weaning....I am going to do a bit of bbth...ie: purees, jars and finger foods.

tbh I really dont see making purees as a hassle...just steam some veg or fruit or use the veg thats left over from your own meal. Puree them to whatever consistency you feel your baby can manage. Lob them into ice cube trays then when frozen into freezer bags, label them and off you go!!!!(dont forget to label them like I used to or you will be playing "guess the puree" every day!!!! )

My ds1 did very well on AC purees, but also had finger food and a few HIPP organic jars as I never really got the hang of doing fruit purees...mine always ended up like a fruit drink, really runny!

Not really thinking about weaning at the moment, but will just do the same as I did for ds1. Toby is 16 weeks next week and I cant imagine weaning him yet.

Weighed him at baby clinic this morning and he is 17lbs 8oz

Hello all,

so much for being lucky having a baby that only wakes once at night. ARGH! Last night he woke three times, wanting to feed for an hour each time.

Also had him weighed: 5.4Kg (11.9 lb), which puts him on the 25%. He's 14 weeks, and I guess I just have a long and thin baby, although they did tell me that he was slim. This of course renewed my poor supply paranoia, so I've spent the morning with Diego in one breast, and the pump in the other (pump only half an hour), obtaining the wondrous amount of 30ml (1oz).

Baby is relaxed and happy though, cooing at me from his bouncy chair. I think he thoroughly enjoyed the lazy feedathon.

Have not got the faintest idea what I'll do about weaning, or when. All I know is that I need to express something meaningful before going back to work. I'll be watching you and learning, ladies....

Grrr 2 days in a row now ds2 hasn't stayed asleep very long at what is usually his biggest sleep of the day. Yest he was in the car seat at a friends house but today he was in his bed and still woke after 30 mins. I've just spent half an hour pushing him back and forward in his buggy in the kitchen (cleaning the floor yest for first time in months was a waste of time then) and he finally fell asleep just as I was about giving up and feeding him.

When I weaned ds1 it was before 6 months and I gave him his full feed of milk first before giving him the food so the food was just to top him up a bit. Don't know how long I did it that way round though but I do remember struggling to get him to take enough milk as he totally lost interest in breast or bottle.

Hi there... could anyone give me a brief explanation of the 2 different approaches to weaning, and what the advantages are of each? Am completely ignorant of the whole thing and it's all a bit daunting

Also dd has reflux and hates lying flat on her back. I've kept her flat in the buggy but there's a semi-reclined position which keeps the back rest part at 30ish degrees. She's only 16 weeks - is this too young to have her slightly more upright? She seems to enjoy it.

Had a slightly traumatic day at the hospital yesterday to fight to get the meds she needs for reflux... but finally got them and she seems a little better

I think the slightly upright position is fine littleconnie as I have a MacLaren Quest pushchair which is suitable from 3 months and it doesn't go totally flat.

Toby loves being raised up in his pushchair -well, anywhere really! It helps with his wind and his stuffy nose at the moment too.

I think as long as they can hold their head up tis fine.

littleConnie, IMO the 2 different ways are as follows:

Puree - as the name suggests you puree all food and give to your baby by spoon. Most people start off with something quite bland like pear and add baby rice. Not sure why baby rice as it doesn't taste of anything and is like wallpaper paste. Maybe it's used as a filler? You then decrease the smoothness of the puree's so your lo learns how to eat lumps. I would say (and this is a huge generalisation so I apologise in advance) people who like to control and have order will prefer this method.

BLW - you give pieces of food to your lo and it is up to them to pick the food up and put it in their mouth themselves. The theory being, if they can do it themselves then they are ready for food. It also encourages self regulation of their appetites (ie they only eat what they want as they are not having food spooned into their mouth and being made to eat how much we think they should eat, much like bf'ing.) The pro's for blw are self regulation of appetite, no pureeing, and as blw babies tend to be weaned later they can eat a bigger spectrum of foods straight away. If you don't like mess and stress over waste, and not knowing your baby's food intake I would imagine blw isn't for you.

Whatever route you take, your lo shouldn't have any dairy, gluten or wheat before 26 weeks - there may be other no no's as well, but they are the one's I can remember for 6 months. After 6 months they can have dairy, wheat and gluten, but their main fluid intake should not be cows milk. For example having yoghurt and cows milk on cereal is fine, but do do not substitute breastmilk/formula for cows milk.

Hope this helps

Oh, and I meant to say ds is nearly 18 weeks and has been in his sitting up pushchair for a few weeks. He's a lot more settled in it as there is more for him to see.

As long as your lo can hold their head and torso themselves then it's fine to sit them up.

C is amazingly varieds in her sleep, sometimes sleeps 12 hours only waking once, other nights it's every 2 hours or so. No prizes for guessing which is more common!

Went to Baby Sensory vclass today, C loved it. I took dd1 when she was about 7 months old, and she thought it was fab, so thought I'd do it again. Someone there told me about a sling meet tomorrow, so might pop along to that too

We had a bit of drama the other night - we live in a terraced house, and the water tanks in the houses either side of us burst at about the same time flooding their houses and leaking a bit into ours - poor people.

So sorry meglet to hear about your ex, it's good you're strong enough to make him move out, but it must be a tough time for you x

That's brilliant thanks ILTMIMI - I suspect I'll be leaning towards the BLW camp, it sounds nice and flexible and I'd like to carry on with just BF for as long as possible!

Thanks for the buggy advice too... I saw a few scaremongering threads on here about damaging babies' backs by sitting them up too early - but I'm a firm believer in doing what feels right

By the way does anyone else on here have a lo diagnosed with reflux?

ILTMIMI loved your "in a nutshell guide to weaning". Thanks!

Yes that was a succinct explanation of weaning!

I read if you have a history of allergies you should delay weaning, but for how long? A fortnight? A month? My mum has asthma and my dad and sisters have terrible hay fever, one sister has excema...

BLW won't work for us. C is nowhere near being able to pick things up and feed herself and we hit 26 weeks later this month!