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Checked her to refresh weaning DC3 and oh my goodness we are all up in arms, are people thinking too much these days?

141 replies

Roca · 08/03/2009 11:02

Surely it's baby seems ready for food, try them on this and that and before you know it they are joining in with your meals.

Oh and mine started on puree, then progessed to finger food then 'normal' meals. And now believe it or not they eat just like little human beings - curry and everything, never had to cook a different 'baby' meals for them.

And I weaned my first 2 from 17 weeks (the old guidelines) shock horror

Perlease, life is busy enough without 'my DC played with a bit of brocolli today he is doing so well on the feeding'

Just to clarify - am I now not supposed to give my DC a spoon or something for fear of hindering them in later life?

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AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 11:14

no no no, you see, that's completely what i'd hate. i have no interest whatsoever in your marriage, or your opinions on sex, clothes or food. it's horses for courses. and that is why roca's OP was so ill-mannered, because if i came on and started a similar thread in P-N you'd all be up in arms saying how nice you all are. see?

MerryMarigold · 10/03/2009 16:06

I can't defend everyone on the PN threads as being nice Aitch! I am though

wastingmyeducation · 10/03/2009 17:10

I've re-read the OP and I'm afraid I still think she was out of order taking the piss.

And I hate it when people take the piss for something that isn't even true ie. what she says about spoons.

Really winds me up. But I guess that was her intention.

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 19:26

well i know THAT, mm...

SnowlightMcKenzie · 10/03/2009 21:16

Grrr to you all, that's all I have to say.....

Baby Starlight has passed her 6 months milestone and is still on milk and you know why?........

Coz I don't do purees, and when I have a meal I take one look at and think

'She can't have salty mash potato with a boiled egg in the middle'

or

'I can't feed her chicken kievs and baked beans'

I'm a rubbish cook and I truly hate cooking so I though this was the easy option, but it doesn't look like it is after all.

So all in all this BLW isn't going as well as I'd hoped.

wastingmyeducation · 10/03/2009 21:23

Snowlight - steamed veg is easy, just don't put salt in the mash, they can have egg, don't worry!

Post lots and you'll get some ideas. There's no rush.

giantkatestacks · 10/03/2009 21:23

It is hard starlight it has got to be said - I find it easier to just cook more carrots/broc/green beans than needed and have some in the fridge for the next day and my dd will have them cold for lunch and tea -though we are doing a mix of mush and finger foods as I said before...

Theres always grated cheese and toast and fruit doesnt need any cooking.

[supportive emoticon]

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 21:25

she can have mashed potato. just don't add the salt until the end.

it's true, if you're doing BLW then you do have to look at your diet unless you want to end off making stuff separately all the time. remember, weaning only lasts a few months, if that. you've got this kid to feed for the rest of her life.

at the end of the day, it's worth doing. you really need to answer the question of why you're feeding yourself stuff that you couldn't give a child.

giantkatestacks · 10/03/2009 21:30

Starlight - loads of avocado as well...thats my fall back weaning item - no cooking required and you only have to boil up some macaroni and grate some cheese and thats a lunch in my book though probably not in others ahem...

6inchnipples · 10/03/2009 21:32

cooked carots, brocoli and green beans cold?? Yummmm

giantkatestacks · 10/03/2009 21:34

I know but dd hoovers them up...often after a long lunch half of it is cold anyway and yet dd carries on eating...

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 21:35

lol at yummmm.

best not to dictate your prejudices to the child, i'd have thought. or microwave it, you doofus.

6inchnipples · 10/03/2009 21:46

wouldn't mind room temp but i was imagining them straight from the fridge, wet and cold

I'm struggling for 'complete meals' to offer, we eat loads of reasonably healthy meals but don't feel they are suitable to offer a 6 mnth baby.

Past few days we've had (us not bubs) spag and meatballs, king prawn and egg noodle stir fry, chicken curry, sausage caserole and mash, fish stew (tomatoe based and a mix of smoked and unsmoked fish) BLW is proving a bit of a fart on because i'm having to make seperate stuff each night but with other two dc i had batches of caserole etc frozen ready to ping. Any meal ideas???

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 21:54

right, i'd say at bang on 6 months i'd make the effort to have some broccoli, carrot etc to hand. but there is no reason why you couldn't have fusilli and meatballs rather than spag, let the baby have some veg and prawns from the stir fry before addition of soy, chicken from the unsalted curry maybe mixed with yoghurt take the sauce off, some mash and sausage if they're good quality and some of the unsmoked fish and veg from the fish stew.
and ime casserole was aperfect blw food.

giantkatestacks · 10/03/2009 22:07

6inch - its ok my dd doesnt know any different - I mean god if they will eat ricecakes [bleugh].

And we sort of cop out from the complete meals as we are already eating nursery food anyway most of the time - so spag bol, fishcakes or fish pie, stir fry and noodles without all the spices, shepherds pie, homemade burgers, liver and onions, plain butter fried white fish.

We also tend to give the dd the carbs of what we are having and then combine it with something more baby friendly so we would have sausage and roast sweet potatoes and peas and she will have the veg and maybe some cheese instead iyswim.

SnowlightMcKenzie · 10/03/2009 22:07

Thanks wasting and giantkates

I already have a 2yr old. His diet is odd, but I think fairly healthy. Lunch is usually just a selection of random things that I find in the fridge or cupboards so I reckon I could probably do the same there.

ie. cubes of emmental, ham, red pepper, olives, apricots, and some toast. (Do you think this would work with Baby Starlight?)

Dinner for him is usually pasta with cheese grated on it to glue frozed (but cooked) veg to it so he'll eat them without noticing. Sometimes also mixed with whatever we had left over from dinner (i.e. left over chicken) the previous night. It is his favourite.

My DH usually makes dinner, but is rather fond of gravy and sauces.

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 22:09

oooh, no thanks for me, starlight, ye beeyatch?

NotAnOtter · 10/03/2009 22:09

agree Aitch

I feed my dcs loads of food i would not countenance served up with a 'you lucky thing!'

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 22:12

oh, and yes the 2 year old's diet fine... remember at 6 mos it's just about experience, much less about nutrition in any case.

i've also been known to rinse or suck sauces off meat if pushed.

6inchnipples · 10/03/2009 22:12

what about tomatoe based stuff, fine at 6 mnths?? I think i waited til other 2 around the 7 mnth mark for tomatoes, so hard to remember.

Haven't given her any chicken or fish yet. What is the best way to offer chicken for the first time?? What if i cook it in a caserole and use thighs and legg on the bone (my other two loved a big thigh/leg when they were babies, always thot it comical looking too, like a scene from the flintstones)

giantkatestacks · 10/03/2009 22:14

Thats the dinner we do a lot as well - its great how the melted cheese sticks the sweetcorn and peas together into handy pickupable blobs...

I think your tapas style meal planning would be fine - I would swap the emmental for some grated cheddar and the veg for some sweetcorn straight from the can or some cucumber.

With leftover chicken I often do a chicken/mushroom/cream thing and plonk it over some rice or pasta - all the dcs love that...

AitchTwoOh · 10/03/2009 22:19

toms fine at 6 mos, particularly cooked toms.
dd loved the thigh and leg, found breast a bit too dry andcough-y, but others prefer strips of breast. i used to pull the legsapart for her and give her the meat to suck on. fish? big flakes v good, salmon a doddle.

6inchnipples · 10/03/2009 22:20

sorry aitch but...

'i've also been known to rinse or suck sauces off meat if pushed.'

surely this was something overheard at a party in the days before kids???

NotAnOtter · 10/03/2009 22:20

i am vegetarian and the thought of giving meat or fish to my fresh tummied one....

I know i will do it but who knows when!

SnowlightMcKenzie · 10/03/2009 22:20

Actually, now that I think of it I remember when my DS was just short of 7months I gave him an avocado to play with because I was worried about all the plastic tat in the house, and he battered it, then stuck his fingers through the skin and pulled the food out.

I've got it on video actually. He was sitting on the floor absolutely covered in green slime. Then he tried to crawl away from it, but his hands and knees were so oily he kept falling on his nose.

He looked like Shrek!

It's all coming back to me now.....