MSE Parents Club Part 9

tarajayne

Aless, it's £72. XXX 5 days.

searching_me

are you ok scruff?? x

Sami_Bee

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

We gave up I found it too stressful, trying to get him to stay latched when he was screaming hungry. So we decided that it was more important that he gets breastmilk, and the method was less important. I'm now an exclusive pumper! I'm not sure of the long-term plan, I'd like to continue pumping for as long as possible. But I have a horrible suspicion that the paediatrician is going to tell us to put Andrew on half formula (NutriPrem2) to aid his slow weight gain.

I know I harp on BUT there's (usually) nothing wrong with slow gain, all gain is good

weezl74 wrote: »

sorry sami didn't mean to worry you:o

DH says that it would only really present any issue if they hadn't emergedby 6, and even then can be helped. Just that the adult teeth follow the pathway down the root of the baby teeth, so if lots of baby teeth are missing or have had to be removed due to decay, sometimes the adult ones don't emerge in the exact right place. He thinks 2 missing wouldn't cause hardly any displacement.

Hope that's reassuring

I'm not worried in the slightest :cool::D they're coming just in their own sweet time was a little surprised as I got my teeth quickly (had all my adult teeth 2yrs before most)

oh for anyone that still cares; Ed's hip scan app has come through, 1st feb at 9:30am :eek: 9:30 are they crazy?! :rotfl:don't they know we only get out of bed at 9 in chez bee

scruffy96uk

SM I'm so so but life goes on lol

SusanC_2

Finally caught up...

SugarSpun wrote: »

Thanks for the BLW stuff, although I had to :rotfl:at the gone-wrong bits that she didn't like ... both made by OH I note. That would be completely reversed here, I'm the useless cook and he's in charge of the kitchen. Generally I'm not allowed in the kitchen to make anything more complex than a sandwich or a cup of tea.

In fairness, he had made the quinoa thing fine previously and the cake was a fancy recipe with fancy ingredients which we didn't have so he made loads of substitutions because he hadn't planned it in advance.

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Sorry, I know nothing about BLW and we're going down the puree route just now, but that strikes me as an awful lot of weeks of food not actually going in, down & out? Almost as if food is a plaything for the first six weeks? (no offence, just don't get it!)

That's the idea - that the baby is given food before they need it for sustenance (sp?) so that they can play and learn how to eat it ready for when they do need it and they start eating at their own pace. The theory is that as long as you give them the opportunity then they will be able to eat "proper" food by the time they need it. They have a gagging reflex which gradually moves further back and then disappears. This is why when Alice got a piece of banana in her mouth early on she gagged on it - this allows the baby to practise manipulating food in their mouth without the risk of choking. Some children start eating significant amounts almost straight away whereas others take much longer or do it more gradually just like with any other stage of development. Purees can bypass the gagging reflex but as Alice wasn't having any problems with weight gain, I wasn't concerned about ensuring she consumed solids and was happy to wait for her to do it for herself. It's not for everyone but it worked fine for us and was so much easier and more convenient than purees appear to be (based on observation of my friends).

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

We were talking about BLW at Boobie club today and someone suggested baking 'mushy' type foods in filo pastry so they take on a finger food form. I was a bit concerned that filo might be a bit salty, but apparently it works.

That's something I never understood - trying to make mushy food into finger food. When I was on the BLW yahoo group I remember someone posting this long complicated recipe on how to make mashed potato into finger food for BLW. I was just thinking, "What's the point - why not just give them a lump of potato and wait until they're more advanced at eating to give mash?"

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Susan is the pancake recipe on your blog? I've tried about 20 american/scotch pancake recipes and they never work for me, maybe #21 will be a winner *prays*

It's not on my blog but I can tell you it. I'm a bit worn out from all the food diary typing though so will be another day.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

ETA: You need to be REALLY patient to do BLW though - every meal can take an hour!! Part of the reason that I fed Benjamin breakfast - I would never have got to any Booby Clubs!!

We had the opposite problem once Alice got the hang of eating and was eating larger quantities - she would sometimes shovel the food into her mouth as fast as she was able to without any regard to how quickly she could swallow it or the fact that her mouth was too full to chew.

weezl74 wrote: »

Usual order for anyone interested is: upper as, then lower as, upper bs then lower bs, ds then cs then es and usually all emerged by 2.5 yrs

That reminds me - I must check and see if Alice has any more es - I discovered one in December when I was brushing her teeth (OH usually does them) and have no idea how long it had been there.

feelinggood wrote: »

I feel like I've missed big news today. I'm reading everything but it isn't going in. I'm having quite a bad day, so I apologise for not saying what I'm supposed to. I feel useless.

Hugs. You're not useless and anyway it's nice to "see" you.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I think the term Baby Led Weaning is a bit alienating to some, me included TBH, I don't like to say to people that we are BLW. The words just don't make a lot of sense in a plain simple english style that I am used to.

What drew me to it was the ease and the lack of worrying and no 'here's the aeroplane' 'just one more spoonful' stuff that smacks of a stressed mummy IMHO. I also like the fact that beginning weaning was triggered by physical factors (sitting, the ability to pick up food and put in mouth and the loss of the tongue thrust reflex) rather than by some mythical 'number' or age - because as we all know so well - all our babies are so very different

I agree. I never used the term "Baby Led Weaning" to people IRL - I just said we were giving Alice regular food and not purees and that they are supposed to be able to learn how to eat by the time they need it.

SugarSpun

Feelie, your BF/expressing post earlier was wonderful, I meant to tell you but got distracted by a chewing baby (she gave me another hickey...).

Well done Fergie for growing a tooth! Did I miss someone else's LO doing something momentous? I'm falling asleep on my feet. However, I have succeeded in this evening's mission: my aim was to improve the cost of our Bermuda trip, which booked the regular way was £3600, booked on my first-round MSE way was £3100.

I've just managed it for £2700 AND possibly secured us an upgrade from the budget, no-view room to the suite. Still need to get us from here to Gatwick but shouldn't have any problems doing that for under £400.

Edit: Susan, I love it when men go into the kitchen - it tickled me because it's exactly the thing that happens here with me

searching_me

scruffy96uk wrote: »

SM I'm so so but life goes on lol

snap .. whats up? .. can you share chocolate virtally no cals then and it wont screw up my diet x

tarajayne

Sami, we all care but will be funny to see how you get on with school run hours! :eek::rotfl:Fingers crossed all ok.XXX

Scruff, you ok hun??? X:A

scruffy96uk

Sorry Sami what is wrong with Eds hips

money_maker_3

((hugs)) scruff
Here if you wanna talk hun xx