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MSE Parent Club - Part 2

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  • Sami_Bee
    Sami_Bee Posts: 14,555 Forumite
    Mazcabs wrote: »
    Quick question... how old would your LO be when you stopped giving him milk in a bottle? And now for the controversial one, how old would your LO be when you let them have some of your chinese takeaway? LO does eat anything and everything and he has curry etc there so just wondered

    I just spotted ur LO has 11 teeth! Chris's teeth are quite cosy in his gums and at 2yrs he still has 12 :p

    in answer to the milk in bottle - never :o Chris has decided that he will only drink milk in 2 forms - hot milk from a bottle or cold chocolate milk in a cup.
    I tried to wean him on to a cup for his milk at about 8mths I think but it was such a battle I decided it was one I would rather loose, he only has a bottle downstairs with us before bed now. All other drinks are from cups, beakers etc and has been like that since 6mths or so

    Chinese - I still don't allow Chris to have it as a meal due to the salt but I'd say since about 1yr we let him taste it and have the odd mini spring roll or prawn cracker. he loves dipping the p crackers in soup coz it makes that crackling sound! at your LO's age he used to love a meal I think it was heinz that was sweet n sour pork so we would give him that when we had chinese so he matched us :D
    The very best is sometimes what nature gives us for free.
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    I think Sami is right, as always!
  • cazscoob
    cazscoob Posts: 4,990 Forumite
    mazcabs i was just about to ask the bottle question! i give Charlie a bottle of milk in the morning and one at night(that he takes to his bed) i was planning on taking the morning one away but leaving him with the nighttime one at the mo due to new baby arriving soon and i want to keep bedtime as normal as possible. he just turned a year on monday and is still a baby compared to how the girls were at his age?

    as for the takeaway charlie eats the same as us most nights and usually has his tea and a bit of his dads takeaway when we have one. he has even been known to eat madras!

    am starting to get into panic mode at the mo 22 days until EDD and im not sure how we are going to manage with 5 kids?? am so tired at the mo never mind the extra washing, feeding etc etc!!!
    What's for you won't go past you
  • Becles
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    I've never really paid much attention to the salt in Charlotte's diet. I don't add salt when I'm cooking or add it to plates when meals are served. As she's naturally on a low salt diet, I don't suppose the odd bit of takeaway would do her any harm.

    I kept her on bottles until just after she was a year old. We went on holiday a couple of weeks after her birthday, so I kept using the bottles and formula to keep everything the same during our holiday. Once we came back I weaned her onto cows milk in cups.

    Pleased you had a good day out keely. My husband thought it was easy staying home with a baby. However my parents (babysitters) have been away on holiday and he had some time off work, so he had to look after Charlotte while I was at work. Now he realises why I never get much done :D
    Here I go again on my own....
  • Mazcabs wrote: »
    Lucky you Keelykat, the only baby free days I have are when LO is at nursery and I'm at work or when my mum has had him as OH has never changed a nappy in 14½ months!!!

    Quick question... how old would your LO be when you stopped giving him milk in a bottle? And now for the controversial one, how old would your LO be when you let them have some of your chinese takeaway? LO does eat anything and everything and he has curry etc there so just wondered

    Poppy still has two bottles a day - morning and night. DH still sterilises them and boils the water! :rotfl:. He just never got out of the habit and the steriliser was not going anywhere as Jamie was on the way. We also use Cow & Gate 1+ rather than cows milk. No plans to stop at the moment and all other drinks are from cups.

    I have never given her Chinese food (partly because we don't eat it that much) but I do forget sometimes that she is 15m old and can have almost anything that we do.

    Do you mind if I slap Mr Mazcabs on the wrist re the nappy issue?! :D:o.

    xx
  • carol9uk
    carol9uk Posts: 917 Forumite
    in asda they have hipp organic baby food on offer, its the porridge, baby rice and cereal. from £2.29 to £1.00. for babies from 4 months. 160g size.
  • Thanks, Carol.

    How are things with you?

    xx
  • Although dentists prefer them to be on cups by 12 months, an experienced HV (who is a grandmother) told me in her experience a child usually is around 18 months before they give up their bottles of milk.

    I started DS on cups of water from being very little, but the milk didn't go into beakers until he was about 18 months.I gave him a choice one day of putting his milk into a bottle or a beaker, he chose beaker, and that was the end of that!.
    The IVF worked;DS born 2006.
  • Mazcabs
    Mazcabs Posts: 2,108 Forumite
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    Be my guest Septemberbaby re slapped wrists although cant erally moan as he does do everything else including washing his own clothes!!!

    Thanks for your experiences guys re food and milk, interesting reading. I would say that 95% of LO's food is homemade (inc nursery), he has a jar at my mums one day a week and then the rest we maybe have a chinese once a fortnight or a pizza from Dominos, so not a lot of premade food.

    Milk - he has a bottle in the morning, maybe 4oz during day and then one when he goes to bed, all other drinks are in cups so I guess that we may stick to the 18 month mark as Js_Other_Half suggests...
    Mum to 2 lovely boys who keep me busy.
  • I've tried to get Jack off a bottle without success and he is now 2. However we've sliced the teat open so he can down 7oz in less than 30 secs whilst on the sofa huggling daddy and watching Night Garden. It hasn't helped us get it off him by molly sitting by his side drinking her bottle of milk.

    I've given up doing things when the books and HV say i should. I've decided my situation is different to most and i'll do it the way that suits us all. He drinks water out of beakers and cups during the day and the odd glass of milk, so I'm not worried.

    Its not that he can't do it, its just he won't. I'll try again by the spring...maybe :-)
  • carol9uk
    carol9uk Posts: 917 Forumite
    Thanks, Carol.

    How are things with you?

    xx

    hi i am fine thanks, cant belive james is 6 months now, still BF and weaning. hes putting on loads off weight, 19lb now. he sleeps from 1130 to 730/8am is that good?
    when did everone stop sterlising. i have got some items that cant go in the mirowave so cant be sterlised.


    how are you??
    thank xx
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