MSE Parent Club - Part 2

Sami_Bee

chocaholic110 wrote: »

Can hardly believe that now as he has an insatiable appetite and will eat anything. He kept helping himself to the leftover garden peas after dinner tonight much to the disgust of vegetable hating DS1. Also he regularly forages in the fridge, finds yoghurts and holds it out with a hopeful "Eh?" and is forever taking us to the fruitbowl and asking for bananas or to the cupboard for rice cakes. I think he'd eat all day long if we let him - yet he's still wearing 6-9 month, or some 3-6 month clothes at 14 months old!

That sounds like Chris (except for peas he refuses to eat them and has quite a talent for spitting them out of anything they're hidden in!) he eats constantly, always asking for grapes, banana, blueberries, fruit bars, cereal bars, toast, yogurt.... but is at least 6mths behind in clothing sizes
Anyone else amazed at how much a 2yo can drink?! I made myself a pint of cordial this morning and Chris drank about 3/4 of it!! :eek:

SeptemberBaby_2

Well, the litte man had his first jabs today and he screamed the place down! But then appeared to forget all about his trauma and has been as good as gold all day .

My HV had arranged a home visit for tomorrow as she has been off sick and we have been under a different HV until her return. Luckily it was baby clinic at the surgery this afternoon and whilst we were waiting for the nurse, she asked did I want to have a little chat there and then instead of tomorrow. Yay! No epic industrial cleaning of the lounge and waiting in! . I actually thought HV's like to [STRIKE]inspect[/STRIKE] visit the home to make sure its not a pigsty! :rotfl:.

Jamie is now 14lb 13oz and still on the 91st percentile!

xx

weezl74

Curious_George wrote: »

ok... ive been having a look online and its impossible to find the answers you want sometimes!
what age did you give your bubbas strawberries? he has strawberry jam and has never had any kind of reaction, but i know the real thing are very allergenic (if thats even the right word! lol)
i dont think it will matter too much as he only had a little bite and spat it out, but as tastes vary from berry to berry, he might have had a slightly sour one!

Hi CG, it's probably too late, and you've come up with a solution already, but what I do as a very allergic person is to put a little dot of the new foodstuff on my forearm and wait to see if a little itchy red lump appears. The reaction is much more mild on your skin than in your mouth, where swelling would be bigger and could cause problems. It occurred to me that you could try a little bit of strawberry juice on bubs arm and just wait and see? Just a thought!

nadnad

Mazcabs wrote: »

Quick question: after your Lo's turned 1 have you bothered to get them weighed ? Last time for Henry was Oct last year.

Oz hasnt been officially weighed since he was 16 weeks. I just stick him on our scales every now and again and although they don't show ounces they go up in half pound increments (its a digital one) and that does for me. He's 9 and a half months at mo and 19 lbs, but I know he's healthy and eats a good diet and is gradually putting weight on so I'm happy.

nadnad

thanks everyone for the breastfeeding advice - I think I'll try to stop the day ones, though not today I'm not geared up for it! I'll try to get him down for his morning nap without a feed at some point soon, I would be happier looking for a job if I knew that was sorted. The problem with Oz is he doesnt really like any milk from a cup (he never would take a bottle), he will guzzle water from his cup but will only take tiny sips of milk, it would be easier if he would sit down with me and OH and take a full cup of milk before sleepy time. Ah well we'll give it a go.

I shouldn't say this out loud because it'll blight me, but the last two nights he's only been up once for a feed - (its usually twice), maybe this is the start of things to come. Now watch this space tomorrow and I bet he'll have been up 6 times tonight or something ridiculous!

Sami_Bee

Nad - Chris still refuses to have plain milk in anything but a bottle (unless his fave Grandma gives it to him :rolleyes:)
I assume its a comfort thing the warm milk combined with the sucking.
He'll have flavoured milk in a cup tho I give him milk in a cup with a few drops of choc crusha or pour an actimel drink in and top it up with milk

Curious_George_2

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi CG, it's probably too late, and you've come up with a solution already, but what I do as a very allergic person is to put a little dot of the new foodstuff on my forearm and wait to see if a little itchy red lump appears. The reaction is much more mild on your skin than in your mouth, where swelling would be bigger and could cause problems. It occurred to me that you could try a little bit of strawberry juice on bubs arm and just wait and see? Just a thought!

thanks, will bear that in mind for the future rather than playing russian roulette waiting for a swollen up mouth! makes sense really

as it happens, he had no reaction to the bit of strawberry he had, so i reckon we will be ok, and i had no idea kiwi was also a "forbidden" fruit ... he had that a few weeks back ... ooops!
terrible mother alert!

Agutka

nadnad wrote: »

Oz hasnt been officially weighed since he was 16 weeks. I just stick him on our scales every now and again and although they don't show ounces they go up in half pound increments (its a digital one) and that does for me. He's 9 and a half months at mo and 19 lbs, but I know he's healthy and eats a good diet and is gradually putting weight on so I'm happy.

Lol, my scales always show Joseph as just under 10kg - which he was six months ago . But when I put him on a friend's digital scales they refused to take any reading, so apparently he weighs nothing :rotfl:- like I wish I did :rolleyes:.

Thank you everyone for your words of encouragement on the won't-starve-himself front. About an hour after I posted there was one upset little boy with vomit on his pillow... Just the one incident, baby happy once cleaned up and it didn't even smell of sick . And yes, in the morning he had a bread roll and... no lunch or dinner again :eek:. It MUST be my cooking. He's at childminders now, she feeds him very well.

Becles - I hope you can help James soon.
lwcus78 - thanks for the chinese story, CG is right, much better than the standard come back in three months

Curious_George_2

agutka - does he drink a lot? lots of milk or juice / water during the day?
it might be filling up his tiny belly?

Agutka

Only if I give him juice, then he drinks like a fish, otherwise normal I suppose...