MSE Parents Club Part 5

Sami_Bee

Feely I personally don't think when kids are weaned affects them in that way, I mean back when most babies were weaned at 3mths there were still fat and thin kids

My mum is fat but her brother is slim, they were brought up the same.

I will say that I grew up with free access to sweets,choc and crisps nothing was ever demonised and I've always had a healthy view of what to eat BUT I also grew up with a mum that yo-yo dieted and constantly talked about being fat and disgusting, she often told us to never let ourselves get like her, which has resulted in me being torn. I look at my mum and feel disgust at her size which upsets me because she's my mum and I love her. It took me a long time to get over the fact I was a size 12 after having Chris, I was actually a totally normal, healthy weight but I felt fat and disgusting for ages.

I think the best thing you can do is both try to be as healthy as possible and try to not to use words like fat around Toby, I try to tell Chris that it's not healthy to eat choc all the time and if he wasn't healthy he'd find it hard to play IYSWIM so Choc is a special treat (don't get me wrong he eats plenty of the stuff ) but fruit is a much healthier food he can eat much more of it and more often.

Hope that all makes sense!

feelinggood_2

tarajayne wrote: »

I am absolutly sure she does but I am not sure if she would be better on formula!

Hope everyones ok today, sounds like some people had a good night!

Found this on Kellymom, wonder if it is talking about the same thing?

"Some premature babies have a temporary form of lactose intolerance because their bodies are not yet producing lactase. This will go away as baby matures, and in fact the maturation process can be accelerated by baby's ingestion of lactose."

Have you tried block feeding?

ETA - have you reduced the dairy in your diet?

Sami_Bee

Em - Chris used to have far more jars than that I used to give him HM food for about 20% of his meals, all the rest were ready made stuff I'm like a born again hippy now lol

Sami_Bee

oh I forgot,r.mac you're gonna be close to us lot, shame you'll be busy

Tara, has she got the green poos then?

feely Ed sometimes wees loads and other days hardly anything

tiamai_d

Amber is feeding and I really, like I had bran flakes really, need to go to the loo... :rolleyes::rotfl:

Well she slept till 3am after her 11.45pm formula feed (with some EBM to cool it down) then had a 7min BF and woke at 7.30am. I'm a happy mummy today, got boys to school/nursery no problems, back home, housework an now a BF. To collect Chris at 12.

tiamai_d

DS1 wasn't much a wee-er feely, regardless of how much he drank (he was formula fed). So long as he's showing no signs of dehydration then I'd imagine it's normal for him.

carlamagee

hello everyone.
my internet practically died over the weekend -was SOOOOOO slow!! i have no idea what was wrong eith it. i tred to catch up on saurday evening, and then again last night, but waitin 10 minutes for the page to load was having serious consequences on my mood, so i left it! but it is perfectly fine now, bac to max 2 second page load!!!
unfortunately i dont have time to go bac and catch up on about 20++ pages, hope i didnt miss anything important!? Any new ppl moved over from the pregnancy thread!??
nothing much with me, had few friends over on friday night for drinks and friendly poker (ie. no money involved!lol) ,then went shopping with mum and sister on saturday. Mum treated me to a nice outfit!! and yesterday Katie was at a fancy dress birthday party -she was a cowgirl. and SOOOOOO cute!! hehe. Mum too Christopher for me, so Katie and I had some nice mother and duaghter time together uninterrupted!

Hope MOTM's daughter had a nice birthday. And hope MM has a good time away camping!! I dont thin i can remember anything else from before friday!!!?? :S sorry if i missed you and ou had something important happening!!

Am gonna head now and go for a walk - sun is shingin here fir 1st time in about 5 days, so gonna make the most of it!!! Catch up laters!!! xx

Krystaltips

Tara, have you got someone you could ask to check your positioning? If you find she does a lot of small snack feeds, try and put her back to the same side if she feeds within an hour. Like Feely suggested, cutting down on maternal dairy can help too.

On the whole weaning debate... I made a point of showing hubby how Caitlyn watches what we eat... She has done since she first started to focus... Didn't mean she was ready to wean... With Aimee I completed bowed to pressued to wean her early, she was about 18 weeks... She could sit up alone unaided and went pretty much straight onto lumpy food... But I wish I'd waited until she could do it alone... Not least because of all the faff that goes with weaning a baby... She also wasn't that fussed wether she got food or not as long as she could have her milk... Don't plan on weaning Caitlyn a minute before I need to... Wether thats 5 1/2 months or 9 months... Whatever suits her...

Had more to say but she's screaming purple and the in laws are due any minute... Well 20 mins ago... But hey ho... See you later...

BrunoM

Oo I hate feeling too old for birthdays! Not only do I have to work, and I'm not doing anything celebratory, and then managed to walk 15 minutes to the station this morning before realising I'd forgotten my wallet and walking 15 minutes back up the hill... then back down... very sweaty at the office now bah.

Elijah just wasn't bothered about weaning til after 6 months, which was lucky as it matched what we'd wanted to do. He always enjoyed playing with spoons though, still does.

Krystaltips

Oh yeah, Elle... Caitlyn has one of these. We got it for £4 from a car boot sale and she loves it! It's in the end of her crib and she has a kick about on it in the morning while I'm gettting washed and dressed or just when we're in the bedroom... It gets switched off when she's supposed to be sleeping though... (although one night it went off about midnight because I'd forgotten to switch it off and she'd kicked in her sleep lol)