MSE Parents Club Part 9

feelinggood_2

Toby loves to bump heads. My Dad taught him to do it, and now if you tip your head forward at him, he headbutts you! Gently and in an affectionate way, like cats do.

Isn't it funny that our babies do all these things when they weren't even born a year ago?

Millie's_Mum

MM mmmmm wotsits, poor you on having to wash his clothes after though.

March babies eating Ello has 4 bottles of 6oz each a day, she has porridge (normal porridge oats shjuzzed up) made with pear puree and toast for breakfast, lunch is cheese on toast or eggy bread or a sandwich or a jar or 3 cubes of HM babymush, a yoghurt half a banana or a biscuit. Teatime, she either has what we/millie are having and picks up and eats what she wants or if she didn't eat well at lunch i might try and force the 3 cubes of mush or jar method, yoghurt or biscuit.

Parenting books I just found some of it really useful during the toddler stage particularly, the stuff about not using an open ended question and picking your battles and the stuff about how to say no without using the word no really helpful and the feeling that by reading a book and having a strategy I was doing something constructive. Toddlers are hard work!

DKA I was wondering how you had gone on, lovely to hear you sounding so positive, great news.

ladybirdintheuk

DKA that is fab news Youn must be so looking forward to getying back to normal

Keely - is glasses direct an option for you? I'm too blind to use them, but it might be worth checking out?

Sami_Bee

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Yay Dylan! Yay to free stuff!

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!!

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!!

sorry I forgot to say yay for the good bits of Dylan's app :doh:

Bumbo is at mum's should bring it here although I fear back arching coz thats all he does in the inflatabe ring seat thing he got for Christmas :rolleyes: he used to be such a lazy boy now he wants to move constantly - how very dare he

on the milk thing - I was asking because I have £1 off c&g night time milk voucher so Does anyone want it?

Glamazon wrote: »

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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.
maybe those neoprene covers would work? I think they're called lil snuggers - I'll google
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! ooh heaven!

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?

doubt I'll be at meet, wednesday is boobie group and I've not been for ages, may go 2mo though but it's all up in the air with Chris's birthday 2mo too

My_Fathers_Daughter

feelinggood wrote: »

Toby loves to bump heads. My Dad taught him to do it, and now if you tip your head forward at him, he headbutts you! Gently and in an affectionate way, like cats do.

Isn't it funny that our babies do all these things when they weren't even born a year ago?

LOL - this time last year I was sat at this desk (with the chair pulled a little further back) on a cushion and driving home in the evening talking and singing to Bubba. How much my life has changed.

It was strange when Benjamin got to 40 weeks so he had spent longer out of me than in me IYSWIM, it is hard to believe he is going to be 1 soon - he will be at school before I know it!

elle_gee

r.mac wrote: »

hello! Sorry I haven't popping back in sooner.
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I do hope you are all well - how big has rhys got?

Hey stranger.. We've missed you! Lovely to see you back Rhys is finally getting bigger though not so much as he should be - too much bouncing about working off the calories, I reckon.. (maybe I should strap him down? ). Fab to hear LO is doing so well! Off to look at your website now..

money_maker wrote: »

Hello all

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 !!

Hope you are all well, havent had time to catch up
((hugs)) to all

MM, we saw a SALT when Rhys was struggling to feed orally. They were really nice (mostly - apart from her telling me he'd *never* bottle/breast feed.. HA :rolleyes:) and offered to come back again when we got to weaning if he struggled, so there must be some help they can offer.

Organix also do tomato and sweetcorn (separately) wotsit type snack too

weezl74 wrote: »

elle, been reading a little more... Looks like soya and rice milks are lower than sheeps/cow and goats milk, but atill a lot higher than breast milk. The next lowest is formula, with only approx 1% more of potassium and phosphorus than breast milk. Could you face swapping to formula? I can look at which is the lowest brand for potassium and phosphorus if you like

He is already on a bit of formula, nothing against it, just want him to have as much BM for as long as possible, so I'm still expressing the same amount but freezing some and replacing that with formula. Helps apease the dietitican too a bit Very MSE too cos it's prescription premmie and kidney specialist type too! :rolleyes: If he can't have any other type of milk, he'll just have to have formula after a year, like you get toddler milks Thankyou for looking xx

Sami_Bee

Glam http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunshine-Kids-Snugger-Fitted-Insulator/dp/B000BUORYO

elle_gee

SusanC wrote: »

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.

Nope, they never said anything about my weight all pregnancy. I think my BMI was 17.2 at my booking appointment when I filled in my notes

elle_gee

Sorry, haven't actually said.. Morning all!

I was looking forward to a day of just me and Rhys but my mum's just turned up.. I'm all talked out after yesterday, haven't got anything to say to her

Sami_Bee

elle_gee wrote: »

Sorry, haven't actually said.. Morning all!

I was looking forward to a day of just me and Rhys but my mum's just turned up.. I'm all talked out after yesterday, haven't got anything to say to her

Afternoon Elle
Hello Elle's mum!