MSE Parents Club Part 9

weezl74

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

What are the other March babies having?

Approx 5oz formula first thing, Breakfast. 4 oz mid morning. lunch. 5 oz mid afternoon. Dinner and 7oz. Bed. 1-6 oz depending on how he feels at a dream feed which we're creeping earlier by 15 mins a week (now 9pm) ready for the arrival of Kester!

HTH xxx

angelfairy

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Woe is you!!

I haven't read any of the boxes or literature! I just keep giving Benjamin his milk :rotfl:

He gets a good BF in the morning, about an hour before his breakfast. Breakfast. A bottle in the morning before his nap. Lunch. A bottle in the afternoon before his nap. Dinner and then a bedtime bottle and BF if he wants it.

Maybe that is why he has such a pot-belly!!


What are the other March babies having?

my MIL would love me to be more like you. i listen to much to what i am 'told' as opposed to what i should be doing. although in my defence, i am just trying to get her to eat better.

benjamin is not a pot belly, well if he is, LO is a bigger one. i am pretty sure she weighs more than him :D

i wouldnt care about the amount of milk she was having if her eating was good.

saying that, along with MFD's question re milk .. what are the other March babies eating on average??? (quite possilby and most likely, i'm overreacting.)

SusanC_2

BrunoM wrote: »

Thanks for asking and Bruno and family are mostly-ok but OH remaining very stressed with the world, her own anger management and patience etc. She even ordered an amazon book yesterday about not being angry with toddlers.

I would take that to be a good sign as she is not only recognising the problem but actively trying to solve it.

money_maker wrote: »

OT went well this morning, we are getting a triangle seat and a bath seat and I have been told to feed Dylan wotsits !!!
Well, not quite, but she said as its easy melted to help him associate putting things in his mouth with food, its an easy one to start him on and there is less fear of choking. So we are to start that and we are also getting a referral to the speech therapist because he has so little interest in food to get some ideas on what might help. To be honest, I would rather let him get on with it in his own time, but apparently at 7 months he should be eating better than he is. Oh well, just one more appt to add to the list !!

I'm sure he's eating more than Alice was - we didn't start weaning until she was seven months.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Yay Dylan! Yay to free stuff!

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Lucky you, Dylan! I love Wotsits!

Eating develops the muscles used for speech afaik so they ST may have some exercies for him.

PS: how is your bum?!

xx

They do baked Wotsits now and I can't tell the difference :T:T:T can't remember off the top of my head but about 90 calories a bag!!

Sami_Bee wrote: »

ooh I'm having trouble not missing things as Ed is so blimming wriggley and I have no where to put him :mad: he managed to fling himself out of his rocking chair yesterday :eek:

MFD - do you use c&g night time milk?

Do you have a bumbo?

We use hipp organic nighttime milk, he just prefers it. It takes him ages to finish the bottle and you can hear him going mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm as he drinks it :rotfl:

That is the reason that I put him on the nighttime stuff, we had a few trial sachets and he just yummed his way through them! We tried C&G but it didn't have the same yummy effect!!

Dontknowanymore

Oh yeah and my Ryry is 9 months old today :j it's goes soooo fast! and I think he's gonna take his forst step any day now! he stands unaided but wont put the foot forward, he wants to but aint worked it out yet :rotfl:

Glamazon

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I want to try joints and whole chicken as well as stews and bolangase, chilli etc is the 6L ideal for using the BIG packs of mince (800g i think) my casserole dish for the oven can only handle the 400g packs

hmm MR is strong contender! Do you know if its only in store?

whats wrong with that?! I LOVE bon jovi!!

A bit late I know but I can't get 800g of mince in my 3.5L one so a 6L would be needed.

elle_gee wrote: »

OMG, I'm 7st 12lb and almost 26! :eek:

(yeah yeah, and stupidly underweight, I know )

I was about to say I'm 8st and almost 26 (then I remembered I AM 26 ) but you are 6inches taller than me.

angelfairy wrote: »

that is exactly how she was. what got me thinking that reflux might have been an issue was when i was googling wedge type products to put in her crib to make her think she was in my arms (to try and solve sleep issues even then).

i found a website that sold different things (wedges included) to help with baby reflux.

i think the main things for me was being sick after feeds (even an hour or so after); getting the hiccups often; and arching of her back.

even if you LO doesn't have any of the above, it is worth speaking to the doc. if you think it is reflux and you aren't lucky to have a nice doc like me keep pushing it. a HV was surprised that i managed to get gaviscon for LO as she hadn't dropped any weight. some docs apparently wont act if there is no drop in weight, although that is not necessarily a sign (and going on the suggestion that MFD put to Elle about Rhys' weight gain, my LO might be like me and just needs to look and things she shouldnt have and she'll gain weight )

HTH

AF - I'm pretty sure Jack has reflux going by the constant evening screaming and possetting. I got some Gaviscon really easily from my GP at 5 weeks (he suggested it for wind ) so I'm using that and hope it kicks in soon.
Anyway, what I wanted to ask was do you raise LO's mattress at night? If so how and by how much? Just wondering if that should be something I do if the Gaviscon doesn't help.

Took Jack to baby clinic - very icy and bitterly cold so dug the car out to go to Tiny Stars later. Got some advice on the crying - feeding him sitting up, winding him BEFORE he starts the bottle, making sure the bottle is at the temperature he likes throughout (So will have to reheat part way through!) and keep him sitting up for 20minutes afterwards.

He now weighs 14lbs 5oz - that was minus the HUGE pooey nappy that he did while we were waiting to go in! There were lots of older children there today around 18months who had to strip off to be weighed - lots of squidgy botties!

Jack woke up at 5.15am this morning and only went back to sleep for 20minutes afterwards! First time ever he has stayed awake all morning - he then had 10mins in sling and had been flat out since we got home at 10.20am. Have stripped BIL's bed and remade it, put washing on and dug my car out the drive.

Em & Sami - thanks for that, I might go along in a few months and see what's what.

Sami - are you going sling meet on 20th?

Glamazon

MFD - I got that Hipp Organic Night Milk which I plan to use. Am so glad I signed up to so many baby clubs - had lots of vouchers and freebies through recently!

Just trying to decide whether to go with fruity porridge again or try the banana and peach cereal today.......

SusanC_2

elle_gee wrote: »

OMG, I'm 7st 12lb and almost 26! :eek:

(yeah yeah, and stupidly underweight, I know )

Did you get extra scans when pregnant for being underweight? I did even though the "pre-pregnancy" weight was only low enough because I'd lost a stone through hyperemesis.

Sami_Bee

weezl74 wrote: »

Forgot to say, sami, haven't seen you since your hols, welcome back I missed you :T

Thank you honey

I'm sorry I'm full of questions today but...
My camera has broken, its a sony bought from amazon the invoice date is 20 feb 09 what do I do? contact amazon?

My_Fathers_Daughter

Glam - I am not convinced that the nighttime milk helps with sleeping, Benjamin just likes it!!

feelinggood wrote: »

Sami - brocolli was one of Tobys first foods, he mushed it into the table and then licked it off his hands.

Benjamin used to mush it up, scoop it all around to the side of his highchair tray and then bend down and eat it off the tray :rotfl:pure laziness!!


He does have a things about using his head though - if we say 'bumpy head' to him he headbuts (soflty) the sofa or the wall or the floor He has his own balloon at the CM's (he LOVES balloons) and he 'heads' it along the floor all the time! Or he holds it still with his head so he can grab hold of the sticky out bit!


He is as mad as his mother :rotfl: