MSE Parents Club Part 5

feelinggood_2

I'm exicted, we are having a takeaway tonight, and I've ordered some super yummy Gulab Jamun. Anyone ever made it?

cazscoob

elle_gee wrote: »

Don't tell me you've had time to bake as well?! :eek:

i had to make them at 8pm last night as abi was upset that meg was sleeping over at her friends so we had hot brownies and ice cream lol!:D
there is amazingly still some left so i thought i may as well have one!

SeptemberBaby_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

My family 'do it themselves' hubby finds a 'man that can' and pays him...

....I ask my daddy to do it - he loves being useful


I still miss you

My Daddy is his teacher and Mummy is chief whip cracker! :rotfl:

I've missed you too .

xx

redmel1621

MrsTine wrote: »

OK just wanna make clear that it's NOT Terry's chocolate orange - IT'S MINE! No way you'd ever get me to share one... probably not even with Alex
I might get the rice and do as you did - day at a time and see how we get on... I am sure the longer she goes the better but she seemed incredibly focused on hubby's dinner earlier and was trying to stuff his hand in her mouth after he'd eaten the bread that was in it... she seemed incredibly determined to get to whatever that thing was that dad was putting in his mouth...

If she's anything like my baby he wants everything that we are holding...food or non-food:rolleyes: He is always trying to grab PS3 controllers off of anyone he gets near to.

Oh forgot to say...I didn' bother sewing anything onto the quilt cover to make him a playmat. I just shoved it down as was...i'm glad I didn't bother now as he never stays on the thing....he roly polys right off it constantly!!

elle_gee

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I heard somewhere (I think it was one of the HV but not sure) that the whole needing iron at 6mths in general is balls because breast/formula milk has iron in it

Mine's probably crap quality - my iron levels aren't always the best :rolleyes:

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

.. Damn - Fritha beat me to it whilst my computer was bl00dy crashing AGAIN :mad:

It is because their iron stores don't last for the full 6 months because they didn't get a chance to build them up in the last bit of your pregnancy
And iron is V important - isn't it Weezl

Muchos ta

LOL - one of hubbys friends keeps asking if Benjamin can have quavers has been doing since Benjamin was about 6 weeks :rotfl:

OH's "best" (i use the term loosely!) mate was feeding his son Skips from very early on. Quickly followed by white chocolate buttons.. :cool:

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

My family 'do it themselves' hubby finds a 'man that can' and pays him...

....I ask my daddy to do it - he loves being useful


I still miss you

LOL Ditto - you know it's my Dad doing the majority of the decorating work on my house! And ditto too on missing SB! :hello:

MrsTinks

caz that's interesting as from memory my astma started whilst we lived in a large city... I'd never really connected it because there were so many smokers in my family I walked round in a semi permanent smoke cloud as a kid... I always thought it was due mainly to that...

Sami_Bee

MrsTine wrote: »

OK just wanna make clear that it's NOT Terry's chocolate orange - IT'S MINE! No way you'd ever get me to share one... probably not even with Alex
I might get the rice and do as you did - day at a time and see how we get on... I am sure the longer she goes the better but she seemed incredibly focused on hubby's dinner earlier and was trying to stuff his hand in her mouth after he'd eaten the bread that was in it... she seemed incredibly determined to get to whatever that thing was that dad was putting in his mouth...

Maybe she was just copying daddy, I mean I doubt a baby at that age knows that it is food IYSWIM (I'm not having a go in case it come across as that, just trying to offer a perspective

cazscoob

feelinggood wrote: »

I'm exicted, we are having a takeaway tonight, and I've ordered some super yummy Gulab Jamun. Anyone ever made it?

have never made it but OMG its my fav!!! im sooo jealous now lol!!!

feelinggood_2

cazscoob wrote: »

have never made it but OMG its my fav!!! im sooo jealous now lol!!!

I've ordered two lots

My_Fathers_Daughter

MrsTine wrote: »

I think I might try the carrot - thanks
And I might have seen the BLW guide - but uhmm... I never read it because I was SURE that it wouldn't be relevant till Alexandra was at least 6 months :rotfl: It could just seem that maybe she doesn't agree! :rotfl:

Okay - I went to a BLW class type thing and said that I didn't believe in the magical '6 months' before you can start to wean (Benjamin was 15 weeks at the time and really interested in us eating).

The theory behind BLW is that the baby leads the way - therefore the baby decides when you start...there are 3 things that are needed before you start to give baby food (that they feed themselves this is...)

1. They can sit unaided
2. They can pick food up and put it in their mouth
3. The tongue-thrust reflex has subsided (this is a reflex which prevents a baby swallowing anything solid)

These 3 things typically happen at around 6 months...but could be earlier or later. Benjamin was sitting unaided by about 4 1/2 months and he has been very good at picking things up for ages...
He still does tongue thrust occasionally though - but I notice it more when I spoon feed him. TBH he is much happier smearing broccoli all over himself!!

We do baby rice in the morning (or porridge), a yoghurt or a mashed banana then he gets some chip shaped veg to play with in the afternoon...or a mush if time catches up with us (although he doesn't like v smooth things!)

Not sure if I will ever get to fit 3 meals into a day with our current routine we need to get up earlier to do so!!!