MSE Parents Club Part 7

searching_me

if LO is anything like zoe MFD they'll slee through it no matter how much you try to keep them up ...

tara isnt that risking lives??? x

wi3adora

searching_me wrote: »

i think thats abit unfair dora something i dont always want meat and think well its not really cheaper i might as well have the meat ... 5 bags of rubbish you room must be huge x

I wish it was! We just had piles and piles of stuff

tarajayne wrote: »

Omg, the nearest unit would be over one and half hours from here!!!

Tara that's really bad, there closing the local maternity unit here at the end of 2010 so I need to get on with having my next baby sharpish as I really don't warrant the other hospital I would get sent to!

redmel1621

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Mel - have you tried just putting food on his high chair and leaving him to it? Boiled or roast Potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrot cut into big chip shapes are some of Benjamins favourite. He also likes brocolli (but it is very messy!) nan bread (dipped in daddys tikka masala sauce!!)

Malt loaf is a big hit, as is avocado (thinking of things that are quite calorific now).

I will give all of these a try

If it is 'dripping' out of his mouth it may be too runny for him - sorry, not trying to pick your words apart but Benjamin refuses to eat any purees because he doesn't seem to know what to do with them because they are not liquid but not 'food' either - I had to add pasta to the purees I froze!!

It's OK pick away..but no it's not puree as such! When I do it myself I usually just mash it now, it is quite thick to be honest. Nursery still give it as puree'd mush to all the babies, so this is why I then went back to trying jars, thinking that he might prefer it smooth Made no difference, he still wouldn't eat it. I have tried all consistency's with no luck...but I will now try just boilg the veg and sticking it his plate for him to eat himself....





Quavers are a bit too salty for babies aren't they?
Probably, but to be honest I just wanted him to eat, and he took such an interest in his brothers quavers I gave him some and he gobbled them down:rotfl:

Does he like fruit? Porridge?
He does the same with porridge and weetabix, just refuses to swallow it...or screams everytime the spoon goes near him...I started just giving him a rusk/toast to hold and eat himself.

Thanks for the replies everyone....I know it will pass, I am probably just more sensitve(hormonal) at the moment than normal;)

Mel x

skintchick

weezl74 wrote: »

Ok! so that was about my weird logic on why I had a homebirth because I don't want to be an over cautious anxiety-based mum who makes decisions out of fear. (like 3's story about the neighbour who's uncomfortable with her little girl being on the swings.)

After I'd done all my research on where to give birth I realised that for me a decision to have a HB would be based on a feeling that it was for us in all likelihood a safer, easier option with better outcomes.

A decision to labour in hospital (for me- not for any other mums) would have been based entirely on a sense of fear about 'what if the very worst should happen?'. In my case a 1:14000 chance.

I pictured the rest of Fergus' life and tried to think of other times when the decision might be similar. I thought of him being 9 and wanting to go on a school trip to Alton Towers and me saying no in case he fell off a ride or one broke and he was extremely badly hurt.

Or if like 3's neighbour I wouldn't let him play on the swings just in case something awful happened.

So I decided that since I really want to be the kind of mum who'd have fears but still say yes to the 'good thing', then I'd best do that from the outset. And for me in my situation a homebirth was that kind of choice.

Does that make sense? My only reasons for labouring in hospital were a fear-driven 'what if...?' and I know that's my danger as a parent, cos I'm naturally a worrier, so I tried to make a more optimistic choice cos that's the sort of mum I'd like Fergus to have.

Thanks Weezl - that's very similar to my logic! I don;t think I actually thought about it quite so much as you in those terms, but I too would have been gping to hospital on a 'what if' basis of fear, and felt I should give Lilia the start from which I intended to go on - as you say, for us, it was a homebirth that was 'saying yes to the good thing' as you so nicely put it.

Thanks for sharing that. x

tiamai_d

The first time in 8 or so years that DH and I have lived together, I may have given him food poisoning! :eek: His chicken thigh was raw right in the middle at the bone I feel terrible now (the boys drumsticks and my thigh were fine though)

skintchick

I managed to stretch Lilia's bedtime out to almost normal time (she obviously thought it was later than normal as she doesn;t tell the time!) and it got me thinking - when does everyone think is the right time to put a three-month-old to bed? We aim for her to be sleep by 7.30pm but is that too late? She tends to wake between 7and 8 am so I don;t want her up any earlier! She sleeps around 3 hours in the day in about 5 naps - can;t get her to put them together sadly, but that my come in time I guess.

searching_me

dont feel bad tia ive done it a couple of times im sure he'll live x

tiamai_d

Skinty, 7.30 sounds fine. Does she get up after that for a feed and if she does, does she fall back asleep again?

I need to get Amber to sleep upstairs on her own. She is down here till I go to bed (she won't even sleep with just DH in the room, it has to be mummy)

searching_me

xfactor in a mo ............ do you finally think the twins will be booted out??? x

weezl74

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Well I bought the red lentils to make lentil soup but these are green split peas? Not sure what the hell I do with those, split pea soup? Sure Weezl could help me out, I remember a lentil pate recipe from her thread I'm sure.

Button there's a lot of split pea recipes in the index at the very start of the 50p challenge, lots are under 'soups and light lunches'

Millie's_Mum wrote: »

Weezl, what effect does being a 2nd (or 4rd etc) baby have on the routine/non routine baby? I never had a routine with Millie until i went back to work when she was 15 months but because we have to be at school at a particular time twice a day Eloise is very routine during the week. We keep having school holidays which !!!! it up completely!

Good question! I don't think position in family affects ryhthmicity, but I've read it increases the chances of a child being high in adaptability. So Eloise might be quite routine, but be adaptable enough to cope with the weekend being a bit different IYSWIM?

Elle and any other lurking psychologists, would you agree with that logic?

skintchick wrote: »

I managed to stretch Lilia's bedtime out to almost normal time (she obviously thought it was later than normal as she doesn;t tell the time!) and it got me thinking - when does everyone think is the right time to put a three-month-old to bed? We aim for her to be sleep by 7.30pm but is that too late? She tends to wake between 7and 8 am so I don;t want her up any earlier! She sleeps around 3 hours in the day in about 5 naps - can;t get her to put them together sadly, but that my come in time I guess.

7.30 sounds good we go for 7 but that was because he was eye rubbing and yawning every day by then!

I'm only just managing to merge Fergus' naps into a slightly longer one skinty, I think up til now the world has been too stimulating to cope with for longer without a little rest!

P.S thanks for saying you liked those thoughts earlier