July 2008 - Food Glorious Food - babies who lunch

[Isaidno]

New thread starts here!

I've been using the 'Ella's organic' pouches. they are really nice and don't have that 'baby food' smell. I just need more time to cook some more, my veg puree supply is running low! I also need to cook for me and hubby, and the kids. I need more time!!!!

TINSELJuice
RE; sore bum. DD had the worst i have ever seen, she was cutting her first tooth and runny nappies were endless. Taken the nappie of helps, I had a plastic bag under a blanket and she would play for a while.
My DP bough pull ups for DD last week, size 5 ones!!! Now they had to do cause i was all out and stuck!! But really what do they be thinkin.

Mama2leah
I have a set of "Irish Twins" Both were born in 2006 one in Jan and one in Dec. Both are best friends but when the row is on OMG stand back! Its hard going but really worth it. We now have 3 under 3 and 6 months on its hectic and mad but love every min. I'm 27 and so looking forward to the girls growning up and growing with them. When is your due date?

Hope you are all keeping well, its pi$$ing rain here soooooo horrible

M2L i told my dh last night about you and he looked at me and said dont get no ideas you
i have to be firm with myself though ive got 7 children and im 41 think ive done enough

but my head says no no you havnt you can squeeze another one in yet.............lol

us women are a funny bunch arnt we

Hi All,

DCs at nursery thank goodness - up half the night last night. BEBE - are you on meds for your MS? Do you have to take them forever? Glad to hear you are feeling a wee bit better.xx

TINSEL - I second the sore bum=teething thing. DD always got a really sore bum when teething and constipated. Calvin gets a runny bum though - no teeth as yet but plenty of red cheeks and gnawing.

I had a look at DDs red book last night - she was 71.5 cm and 19lb5oz at 26 weeks, calvin is 72.5 and 19lb3oz - yet he seems huge compared to Amber I do remember everyone saying how tall she was but he seems so big - I must be lsoing my memory!

MINI - that poem made me too. I say to both mine please still love me when you grow up - please still want to give me cuddles and let us be good friends. The thought of them leaving breaks my heart just now -my DH always says it is a scary amount of love you hold for your kids.

Today I have painted the playroom yellow (1 wall), the WC yellow 9 1 wall) and Calvins' room 1 wall blue {night sky} and the other blue at the bottom {the sea}. I ahve decided on a sea theme for his room with the night sky on the opposite wall.

Re weaning - I was always terrified with DD (PFB) to give her finger foods but Calvin is great at gnawing away. he gets a mix of puree and finger foods too. he has had chips, toast, peppers, wedges, rusky biccies, and bread. He's learning to drink out a beaker now.

Well need to go get dinner prepared - chicken stir-fry and then luxuriate in a bath in peace - with a mag - before going to pick the wee monsters up! tomorrow I have a tonne of gravel to put in the garden!!! growing a hedge to keep the weanes in

Take care all and hugs to all the bubbas and anyone else who needs one (((( ))))) xxxx

Libra - didn't mean to sound dismissive of your blw - I know you want to do it; was just saying perhaps it's harder with a first baby because everything is harder!
Tjuice - teething can give them a sore bum - apparently makes the wee more alkaline or something.

So I have gotten over the trauma of registering my PFB DD1 for school, DD1 and 2 fighting in the head teachers offices whilst B slept like an angel.

Today I was feeding B some pureed fruit and couldn't as she kept stuffing toast in I hold the spoon about an inch from her mouth and she leans forward, opens her mouth and sucks the spoon, very passive on my part.

Rumpel - this is getting spooky, I need to get some gravel for the garden, the front not back, the back is 6 foot fenced all the way round with a bolt at the top of the gate to keep weans in, DP having chicken stir fry tonight, I'm having Quorn. I must get DD1's red book out and have a look too. Wish I had a playroom though, we have thought of a conservatory but we need to think about an extension/moving and what we want to do long term. Hurts my head. My BF has moved into her house in Saltcoats btw and says she is glad to be back

disney - I am glad you are still broody after 7 doesn't make me feel bad, you will have loads of lovely grandchildren though, you've already got two

Momma23 - I thought it was you that was even crazier than me lol, I think mine would be even closer except Mother Nature stopped me (must have better sense than me lol), it's great fun though, it's like your own little tribe

minipink - lovely poem and very true, DD1 has told me she wants to live next door to me when she's big, in a pink house with a Dalmatian, tempted to get it in writing.

Tjuice - Bethany has had a sore bum for the past few days, I think it might be the effect of having foods as the other two were like that too, you have to swoop and het any poos off or their skins turns red raw, I like Metanium if it's very bad. Don't worry if you think the dummy is a bad idea you wena her off it, your her Mummy that knows her best. And don't worry about tipping the pram I could tell you loads of stories of my neglectful parenting, DD1 rolled off the sofa and bed in her time (bad mummy). I think it's the rites of passage of parenthood.

libra1975 - well done 11 to 6am, we didn't have that bad a night last night, down at 8pm, up at 12 and 4 for feeds, straight back to sleep.

Ooof am knackered... looked after my friend's little girl for 3hrs today (she is 1.9), two hours of which with my two as well. It actually made me think three wouldn't be so bad but I am soooo ready to sit down now!

I think the thinking against combining BLW and spoon-feeding is that spoon feeding puts the food to the back of the mouth before they have learnt to chew for themselves and move it along with their mouth muscles and therefore they aren't ready for food. Like I say, I've been using it as more of a guide than a specific how-to - I'm wary of any philosophy or idea that is quite so evangelical and The Book certainly is! My DS is a picky eater (supposedly 'common' in puree-fed babies) but all his little friends were weaned the same way and eat everything, so I think it's as much down to the baby. I put the food on P's tongue (as well as giving her food to hold) and she uses her own fingers to push it in. I do watch very carefully to check if she is interested in more.

Neglectful parenting here too - DS fell of the sofa, a bed... and this afternoon my friend's DD undid the car seat clip without me noticing so when we got home she was just sitting there not held in at all. Apparently she does that all the time!! Heart in mouth moment.

Definitely agree on teething and icky poo. Despite having finished the antibiotics on tuesday P filled her nappy 4 times yesterday and then again at 2.30 am. Joy.

Pull-ups - everybody else probably knows this already, but I didn't realise for a while that you can rip them down the side to take them off . So then at least just getting them on is a faff!

SK - we have a 6' fence out the back, with a bolt at the top to stop A getting out I got meadow grass white gravel to put down. Stir fry was yum (I have quorn in the freezer but keep forgetting). also at your friend - rather her than us

My HV was saying that babies separate their food into liquid and solid in their mouths before swallowing. Also can't remember who said but I started giving C food off of my fingers to begin with as it takes them a while to get the hang of eating off a spoon - remember it is all new to them and they have to learn. Apparently in other cultures the Mum's chew up the food first then spit it into bubbas mouth - like a Mummy bird We would have done that centuries ago too.

DISNEY - I was looking for reassurance form you lot who have many children that the feeling of wanting more fades and goes I am still feeling I would like another but - so many cons to consider I must leave it until August , I must leave it until August she chants to herself

Well am knacked so off to chill and early bed.

TJuice - I am sure we all have similar stories, I once picked up the car seat with A in it without checking the straps and he slithered out on to the floor. He was only 8 weeks old and it was in front of my NCT class . He has also fallen off the sofa.

About the weaning thing, I think sometimes people get worked up when people mention other ways of doing things, you always think the way you are doing things is the right way (that is why you are doing it that way!) tis human nature. As I said the post-natal thread isn't for flaming and I don't think anyone has but I certainly don't think there is anything wrong with saying this is the way I do things.

I kept giving A a spoon to hold himself with a little of something loaded on it, without fail he puts the handle end in his mouth first meaning the little something goes flying across the kitchen. I am now sticking to loading up rice cakes.

thanks for the reassurance re. neglectful parenting! good to know that they can and do survive!

yes, i am so over the weaning debate. Purees, BLW - whatever. Its all new for them and exciting.

libra - E is the same. As soon as she gets the spoon she bangs it against the bumbo table, flicking stuff everywhere.

i've got 7 mums coming over tomorrow and i just whizzed up a soup from the covent garden soup cookbook - Moroccan chickpea and spinach - its yum. So into my soups in this cold weather.

SK
Its a good tribe, esp when there all girls minnie me's. How are all your girls doing? DD2 here is going through very bad terrible 2s, god she is a nightmare! Waking during the night, wont go to bed, everything is no or go away! It will be over soon i keep telling myself...

DD3 is loving the food she cant get enough.. Were in to the solicitor tommorw to sign a legal gardian over the girls in case of the worst.. God it horrible thinking of it but has to be done. So its defo something for you all to get sorted. Seen a case lately where there was no will and ended very badly.

Off to bed to try and get a nights sleep, fingers crossed

Rumpel - DP moaned about stirfry so ended up with chicken and pasta instead, this is typical DP he's on a health kick lose weight thing and has started training for the London marathon so he's says "SK I want all healthy dinners from now on, I read somewhere that you should eat a lot of boiled rice and veg, so I make him healthy stuff and he moans, men eh. On the garden front, we have garden toys coming out of our ears, it looks like a branch ot toyrus they hvae everything you name it (like most kids nowadays) and you know what they play with, the gravel and buckets, play for houts carting the gravel about from one place to the next and their friends come round ignore the toys play with gravel!

The great weaning debate eh? I think it doesn't matter how you do it they can get to the same end point, I have two very fussy eaters but I think thats just them, they are great if you give them something they like but they know what they like IYSWIM. My mission right now is to get them eating a more varied diet.

Another terrible parent story to make Tjuice feel better, so DD1 is in her door bouncer and I was playing this game of hiding from her and lifting her up and swinging her and she was getting so excited she bounced into the door frame head first, ended up with a huge bump on her head, bad Mummy.

Bethany sat up for a bit today then started crying decided she didn't like it and wanted back on her tummy again, she is definitely a tummy girl even sleeps on her tummy now I have told her what hte books say but she ignores me.

I dropped the remote control on Poppy's head this morning.
(It's like a bad mummy confessional here today!)

I did that to Orlaith when she was about 8 weeks old (dropping the remote control). And both the older DDs have fallen off our high bed. And DD2 fell down the stairs when she was 14 months and I stood at the top with my arms full of laundry and screamed. And DH dropped DD1 out the buggy when she was about 18 months because he tried to lift the buggy over the front steps into the house, not realising I had already undone the straps to take her out first.

Dd1 calls our remote control 'my Fat Controller'!

I'm not even going to start on the confessions...
Worst one was arriving home in the car to find dd1 had undone the baby straps before we drove off and I hadn't noticed...shivers.

Funniest (?) bad mummy moment was dd1 somehow extracting a saw from the back of the understairs cupboard when she was about 20 months, when I was on the phone to my mum - cue me screaming 'she's got a saw!!' my mum going 'what?what?what you saying?' and dd1 running across the living room shouting 'seesaw!seesaw!'

OK I'll stop now...!!

Oh and after dd1 (born at peak of Annabel Karmel) I am never, ever, ever, freezing icecubes of puree again!!

I'm actually slightly wondering why you keep a saw in the understairs cupboard...... ;)

SK- you are much nicer than me, I would have raised my eyebrows, smiled at him (you know the smile where you don't open your mouth) and pointed at the toaster.

Momma23 - we have talked about apointing a guardian for months now, we are just not sure who (not many of our friends are in stable long-term with children relationships!)

Rumpel - where do you get all your energy?

SK - whenever I am tearing my hair out over A behaviour (usually when I am trying to make him have a nap) I just repeat to myself "he hasn't read the books, he hasn't read the books". Maybe I should change his bedtime story from Spot the Dog, to The Baby Whisperer!

Well A sleeping thru was obviously a one off, up for a feed at 4am last night. Today however we are going to sing and sign which for some bizarre reason (I hate singing and hate these forced happy activities) I am really looking forward to.

Also does anyone else LO prefer to eat their bib half way thru their meal rather than the delicious morsels in front of them?

im off to docs today, no idea wen my due date it...been gettin bad pains snce last night..hmm kinda worried.
i 4got how worryin bein pregnant can b...

hi....you ladies have made me smile this morning with your stories
I unfortunatly picked up the car seat when Meg was about 3 months, she wasn't strapped in the handle hadn't clicked so it moved and she slid out like a bag of spuds I was mortified at my stupidity......oh and William opened his door in the car the other day while we were travelling (childlock now on) that was very scary...he thought it was very funny...kids eh??!!
M2L hope all is well.

Williams first day back at preschool today, I just want to put xmas behind us now as it was such a sad time. We lost my mil to a heart attack on the 27th, her funeral was on mon just gone. We were all with her when it happened which seems like such a double edged sword, glad we were there, but so upset at not being able to do anything to help.

hope your all ok...

Hi all,

Pudding- Sorry to hear about your MIL

M2L- Hope everythings fine.

Love the stories.. Ive put the car seat in the car but forgot to strap in down once... thankfully I hadnt actually driven off before i realised.

Meeting SarahPo from here this afternoon. Looking forward to meeting her and Patrick

Been getting positive feedback from our viewings which is good and have another one booked for tonight.

Just to clarify the saw is no longer under the stairs!! (Had been left there while the house was a building site when we moved in!)

xx

pudding chef sorry to hear about your MIL

3 years ago we had just come back from USA before xmas and my mil came with us
she died just after boxing day with severe heart failure, it was terrible still havnt got over it............she was my best friend.... makes you feel so helpless doesnt it.
M2L hope all is well with you

samuel is such a little pig right now,he eats and eats and the amount of milk hes having well..........4 7oz bottles in the night alone....his body is solid now
he amazed me today now this might not seem a lot you you guys with your babies but it was a big deal with him........lol
he was lying on his baby gym and he reached with both hands for a swinging toy and got it
now hes never reached for a toy yet so it was so wonderfull to watch and see

momma we have my daughter as our legal guardian of our dc,s if anything happens to us together she gets the house the money and the boys
we have life ins and accidental death ins as well.
its just a subject you dont wish to dwell on isnt it

waiting to hear news of how much my car is going to cost in the garage and we know its gettin on for £1000 now .....but its the only big car i have big enough for a wheelchair/scooter and sams pram and all of us
the garage we got it off totally shafted us outta £2000
get this ok we bought the used car with warranty
weeks later they started trading under a new name ..................now people and managers and mechanic the same just took the old sign down and new one up
omg am i pissed right now,i have the media ringing me today apparantly we are going on the front page,plus trading standards on the case
i also so sad i really need this car i have enough worry about samuel without this

anyway of to make a huge chilli

reali emotional now
went doctors..
they asked if i wanted an abortion..and then went on to tel me they wil put a coil in next time!!!!!!!!
i didnt say neting, i felt sad...
gave me due date 28/8 but i knw i got pregnant in december, probably...

stupid doctors...

went on to say WILL U COPE?!