General chat thread for puree lovers!

[Neenztwinz]

Before I started weaning my twins, I read about BLW and thought it looked like an amazing idea.

When I tried it I found my darling LOs didn't pick up a single thing never mind get it into the mouths.

So now I puree food and spoonfeed them and they are eating massive amounts and loving it - and sleeping all night!

So I thought I'd start a thread for others who are doing the same as me - we can swap ideas for meals and say what works for us (ie what makes them sleep ).

I gave my twins four plums plus ebm and baby rice for breakfast and they have had a big bowl of sweet potato, haricot beans and brocolli for lunch. More of the same for tea (plus maybe some swede and parsnip). They are 6.5mths old.

What did yours eat today?

Do you give him a yoghurt after every meal Maria? I do occasionally - maybe once every few days - otherwise its just fruit on its own.

Although I accept that my dd may be a little odd as she has never really had a sweet tooth - she seems to like protein over anything else.

Maria - I dont think they do sleep through on their own no - though I know I have been shot down for this view on sleep threads before. Or if they do naturally sleep through on their own then its between 2 and 4 years old and not as babies. I think most need training - and I think the key to night weaning is to decide you're going to do it and then not look back iyswim. If you're goin to bf and cuddle to sleep for half an hour then you may as well just cuddle to sleep and not bf. Does that make any sense at all?

Cheeky monkey indeed Maria! My two do that when I get the Calpol out . I am not kidding! They have been very whingy during mealtimes today and yesterday, not opening their mouths for food etc. It is teeth and a cold I think. When I get the spoon for the Calpol and pick the bottle up they stop whinging and open their mouths ready for it!!!

The only thing I can recommend for your DS is to leave him to cry ie CC (sorry but it does work!) He is still a bit young though, maybe wait until solids are more established eg 8m? At 6/7m, my two were waking in the night cos I think it is a delicate balance at that age to get enough milk and food down them and not too much of one and not the other IYSWIM. When he is a bit older and scoffing loads you can cut out the night feeds with more confidence.

Maria2007 - whatever you do, don't go and read the sleeping through thread! I posed the question and loads of people replied saying "my DS started sleeping through when he was 3...etc." which quite frankly nearly sent me over the edge! Have just read another email from a friend whose tiny, weeny little baby has started sleeping through. But I am not obsessing about it...honestly...

Lol at your baby whining through his meal. My DS opens his mouth wide and shouts at me like an irritable old man while I load up the spoon/blow on it - I'm sure if he could talk he'd be saying "Hurry up woman! What do I have to do to get fed around here?!"

Domestic goddess? I wish!

Making sure this goes back on my threads - hello all! And welcome potatoes.

B has never slept through (nearly 8m now). I was managing to drop to one feed during the night, then we went to my mum's (Neenz, think same sort of thing happened to you around Christmas, night feeding to keep the peace?), and now we both have cold. He was snacking on and off last night, but he hadn't eaten much during the day, and he couldn't keep feeding as his nose was so blocked up. I was just trying to get as much sleep as possible, so he was co-sleeping too, which I also want to put a stop to.

Once we're both better I'm going to get him back to one feed, and then eventually (please, please, please) no night feeds.

Dried apple chunks - soft ones - have been good for us. Picked some up in a health food shop, and was surprised he liked them so much as he isn't keen on fresh apple.

Have you tried Olbas to unblock ds's nose whinegums? It's really helped us all get some not a lot, alas sleep the past couple of nights. At least we are back to one night feed. Hope you get there soon!

whinegums - I was thinking of making some dried apple slices but done know how to go about it - will google for a recipe...

Mookk - I've got some baby Olbas oil - can't say it made much difference, last night was rough - he didn't have any stretches of more than 2 hours. Even with 2 doses of Medised.

Kate - I think you could peel and core and then dry out in a very low oven - but they would probably go very brown. Will be interested to know how you get on with it!

good idea with the apples!

you've probably tried this too, whinegums, but what about tilting the cot? mind you, dd wound up crumpled at the foot of her cot

Tilting the cot helped for us too, as did Karvol. Mind you, DS was not overly troubled by his horrid cold - I was when he kindly gave it to me (my first cold in seven years, horrible children...)

Six months old today! So gave him a bit of toast this morning. He put it in his mouth, looked at me as if I'd given him radioactive dog-poo and threw it on the floor. Rice cake fared a bit better.

We are on two meals a day at the moment, breakfast and dinner at 4-5ish. But is it a bad idea to introduce new foods at that time, so close to bed? It seems weird to give him broccoli or chicken for breakfast. I could introduce lunch, I suppose, but he's not interested in breast-feeding as it is (and is napping for England and so has dropped a feed) so didn't want to fill him up too soon. Advice please, oh experienced wise puree-weaners.

hmmmm, might as well give vindaloo for breakfast! no seriously, if you want to introduce some more difficult to digest things, then lunch is the best time. i did bf-lunch-bf at the beginning so that dd got plenty of milk. a wee bit of food shouldn't affect his milk intake.

question for those with older dcs: did they start eating more when they started crawling? what happens to naps? dd woke up after an hour today. could be many reasons of course...

Love radioactive dog poo description, that is exactly the face DS does when I try and tempt him with toast, pitta bread, avocado, or anything else really apart from his banana and weetabix or fruit and fromage frais...i am going to have a son who will grow up and never be able to take girls out for a meal as they will not be impressed by a grown man who only eats weetabix and banana

well, potatoes, a man who can get breakfast ain't bad

TBH I think he needs a bit of practice at chat-up techniques if today at our mum and baby group is anything to go by...smiled sweetly at the baby girl next to him, stroked her arm, gurgled a bit...then poked her in the eye

Potatoes, as baby chat ups go, your DS is James Bond compared to my DS. We've seen my friend's DD twice in the last week. The first time I took his nappy off to change him and he played with himself non-stop for 5 minutes. Then yesterday he grabbed her hand ("Aaaaah! we all said) and bit her (new tooth!) - how embarrassing?!

What a charmer!
DS just takes after DH to be honest - the day after we met he phoned me at my parents, panicked when my dad answered the phone and asked for Kate (my name's Catherine). My dad told him he had the wrong number and put the phone down. Thank goodness for 1471...

Lol at your DH - was he a teenager at the time (I remember hanging up when boy's parents answered!) or embarrassingly older?!

On the night I met my DP he told me that he wanted to run the marathon to raise money for old people, to make himself sound (I presume) a) caring and b) athletic. Ten years later and the old people aren't getting any younger...

LOL about the charmers!!

As for me: Houston. We have a problem.

DS really really is showing a huge preference for fruit and / or yoghurt. He really snubs the other food & growls for the fruit / yoghurt. Today actually he treated all the mealtimes as a game, gurgling, laughing, kicking my hand with the spoon with his chubby little toe in order to avoid the spoon going anywhere near his mouth. I didn't push things at all (don't want to shove anything into his mouth) but he really ate very very little!!!

Yes, DH was a teenager at the time, funny as he is so confident normally and gets on well with my dad now but he was terrified (sweating and shaking and probably breaking wind too) when he asked my dad if he could marry me - aaah! Take it DP isn't out delivering meals on wheels on foot every night then?!

Maria, my DS is just like your DS, so depressing when you have been busy blending and thinking what to cook him and then he doesn't eat any of it! I'm just hoping it's a phase, I know it doesn't help you at all but it's reassuring to know it isn't just me. i was flapping about this afternoon but as DH pointed out, at least he's eating SOMETHING and learning to sit at the table etc so not the end of the world...just frustrating

My dd is full of cold or teething and isnt eating either - today got some yoghurt down her but not much else - am exhausted with all the extra bfs needed...argh.

My two are not eating either except yogurt (and DD will have porridge). They won't even have the spoon in their mouth when it's anything else. They are ill though (chicken pox) and I remember they refused food last time they were ill and once they were better they were started gulping down the food again. So fingers crossed.

Just wanted to get this back on my threads as it dropped off.

Arthymum I introduced lunch first. I think lunchtime is recommended as a good time to introduce new foods as if they have any problems with them you'll find out way before bedtime.

DS was on formula, but you might want to tweak your routine if you have one to fit in lunch. DS was on an 11am feed then 2pm so he gets his lunch at around 12 now. It's better not to have there milk with their lunch anyway.

Maria - If it was DS I just wouldn't give him the yoghurt if he didn't have the savoury food first. It wont be the end of the world if he missed a meal. Does your LO get offered yoghurt/fruit after every meal at the mo?

Obviously its different with poorly babies.

I agree don't give yogurt at every meal if you want to try to wean him off it. I used to dip DD's food in yogurt cos it was the only way she would eat it but then I thought I am just encouraging it so I stopped doing it and within a couple of days she was eating normally again.

Yes I am letting them off at the moment cos they are poorly but I wonder whether I will be able to get them back to savoury eventually! Hopefully I will.

We're ok again today - woo hoo - think dd has actually lost weight as well - but shes started crawling properly as well not just in circles so that may well be why.

I seem to have encouraged a hot cross bun habit though - she goes mad when she sees the packet come out and does weird arm windmilling motions...

Crawling in circles must be hilarious to watch!

Hmm, i think i may have to get tough on DS and not give him a fromage frais unless he eats some veg...just worried if he doesn't have anything he'll go back to waking at night.

I was so proud on Sunday, we had PILs for Sunday lunch and he sat in his Tripp Trapp chair at the table with us for nearly an hour and was so good! Caught MIL offering him a cookie DIPPED IN COFFEE later I wasn't very impressed! Bloody woman!

Hope all the poorly babies get better soon