MSE Parents Club Part 10

chopsticks

Glamazon wrote: »

choppy - I have it on my fridge! But he eats way more than that now! He's a little piggy!

Harley - J is OK but very grumpy especially in the evenings. I gave him some calpol tonight but last night he was awake at 1am and wouldn't settle for ages (I found out earlier that OH didn't come to bed til 1am so probably woke him up). I am convinced it's teeth and can see his teeth very prominently now underneath his gums so they've definitely been on the move

I wonder if I should be worried about Caitlin's eating. Probably not as, illness aside, she seems happy and healthy. She just doesn't eat very much. It's a real struggle to get food and enough milk into her each day.

emlou2009

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

At the risk of being controversial (AGAIN!!) I think that you are doing the absolute opposite in terms of Seths feet. Babies need to be barefoot until they are walking properly to enable their arches to strengthen and to allow them to walk 'properly' (ie with the correct amount of weight on their feet). From what I can gather, after some googling and chatting to others, cruising shoes and the like are a money maker for the shoe companies (read Clarkes!!) because they promote children being heavy on their shoes because of under-developed foot muscles.

Controversial, but just let the baby be a baby for a while *shrugs shoulders*

Obviously I agree, its not that I've just been too lazy to put them on :whistle: :rotfl:
My thoughts were just that he's got the rest of his life to blister and callous his feet up from wearing shoes, so I would rather they be free to grow as they need to, given that he will never grow as fast as he just has in his life ever again. Plus I begrudge paying for something he will rip off and chuck on the floor in seconds

mookiandco

chopsticks wrote: »

Hi Mookie :wave: Long time no see. How are you and Leila? Is work going OK?

Hellooo! Me and Leila are super duper. She's in bed now (day 4 of new sleep regime) and she fell asleep in 10 minutes. Work is pants quite honestly as i'm finding myself really really missing Leila these days and am quite resentful that I'm having to slog my guts out at work when a huge chunk of my pay goes on the CM and the rest goes on the rent! Anyways enough of my bitter and twistedness clogging up the thread on a Saturday night!!! Whats new with Caitlin? xxxxxx

chopsticks

Thank you MOTM

Wow Mel, you sound like you were a little tearaway

ladybirdintheuk

What is the difference between petit fillous and yoghurt anyway? Izzy gets natural yoghurt or sometimes i mixe it with pureed fruit, but we've not had petit filous

BrunoM

chopsticks wrote: »

Thanks Bruno. I'll keep an eye out on MySupermarket for the offers.

Do you mix anything with the greek-style yoghurt or give it to Elijah plain?

He happily eats it plain, or we mix it with Petit Filous, or we mix it in to Ready Brek, or we add blueberries, or raisins... etc. Em named the Yoplait ones which may be a more MSE option? (though I have a half-memory that I read somewhere that the Petit Filous were the brand most appropriate for infant diets or something? ...probably from an ad...).


MFD, don't be scared of my OH it's the danger of these forums, I tend to post when I have a rant, not the rest of the time, she is really perfectly harmless and very lovely the vast majority of the time

And thanks I think he's cute! He does the vegetable-naming thing frequently at the moment... toddler-tantrums if one does not participate fully!

BrunoM

Ladybird - well Petits Filous is just a brand, of fromage frais. Fromage frais isn't quite yogurt. It's officially very-soft-cheese, more like cream cheese than yogurt. Not sure how they stack up nutritionally.

Glamazon

chopsticks wrote: »

I wonder if I should be worried about Caitlin's eating. Probably not as, illness aside, she seems happy and healthy. She just doesn't eat very much. It's a real struggle to get food and enough milk into her each day.

J has been faffing with his mlk for about 3 weeks but thankfully the last 2 days he has been a lot better. Today he has only left one bottle (4ozs left) when before it could have been more like 3! Even his bedtime bottle he drank 6ozs which he hasn't done for months. He;s now drinking more milk and having the extra food!

Mookie - hi!! Glad the new sleep regime is going well. I am so not looking forward to going back to wok and having nothing left at the end of the month to show for it!

chopsticks

mookiandco wrote: »

Hellooo! Me and Leila are super duper. She's in bed now (day 4 of new sleep regime) and she fell asleep in 10 minutes. Work is pants quite honestly as i'm finding myself really really missing Leila these days and am quite resentful that I'm having to slog my guts out at work when a huge chunk of my pay goes on the CM and the rest goes on the rent! Anyways enough of my bitter and twistedness clogging up the thread on a Saturday night!!! Whats new with Caitlin? xxxxxx

I'm glad Leila is doing well (and great news on the sleeping :j) but sorry to hear you're not enjoying work. Is there anyway you can go part-time?

Caitlin is OK, thank you. She got her first tooth nearly two weeks ago, but I can't see any sign of another one yet. She's been poorly since Tuesday night, throwing up and dia-woowoo, and she's still got the dia-woowoo. Apart from that, she's a real joy to be around and I'm loving being a mummy

xxx

tiamai_d

Someone has totally hijacked my eBay account and put bids on 12 totally adorable 9-12month baby girl items and I swear I have no recollection of it. :A

Amber ate a third meal today!!! :j Usually she has

porrage (half an asda storage pot) and 4-5oz milk
1-6oz of milk
fruit pot (or puree of somesort though usually fruit) and 1-5oz milk
1-6oz milk
3-6oz milk and totally refuses more food

Today she scoffed cooked carrot sticks, a small fruit pot and a biscuit for dinner.

Oh and she is also sitting up (till she turns round to grab monkey or throws her shoulders back)

Elle, the boys usually had 1 weetabix and a bottle of milk (they were greedy sods and on 9oz by 7 months). Ds1 will now polish off 3 and look for toast (hes 8). Amber will tell me when she has had enough food, the boys were like wheely bins

I agree with Victorian Mother, MFD. Baby shoes are cute to dress up in, but completely unnecessary. I worked in clarks, and in the staff handbook it actually said that pre walkers were only for aesthetics. Barefoot all the way in my house! Those shocks things are only to keep missies feet warm cos it be winter on a wooden floor. DS2 was the exception though, but that is because he has his toledoes.