MSE Parents Club Part 12

Glamazon

CSH - I'm filling him up today! He's had a whole Weetabix and half a banana for brekkie, 1 250g jar of chicken noodles, an orange, a yogurt and is currently eating prawn crackers :cool:

I might ask the creche to blend his food a little cos he tends to eat more from a jar (a bit mushy) than he does if he has normal food. Going backwards a bit I suppose but I'd rather he ate more!

csh_2

Glamazon wrote: »

CSH - I'm filling him up today! He's had a whole Weetabix and half a banana for brekkie, 1 250g jar of chicken noodles, an orange, a yogurt and is currently eating prawn crackers :cool:

I might ask the creche to blend his food a little cos he tends to eat more from a jar (a bit mushy) than he does if he has normal food. Going backwards a bit I suppose but I'd rather he ate more!

I've started giving a jar again too at tea time along with whatever we are having. Agree it feels like a step backwards but he has started sleeping better since. I think he just needs more calories and filling up more than what hes currently getting from finger foods. Hes getting bored of eating but still hungry
I'm also worried about about his size and weight as he seems quite small now. Hes just below the 25th and was previously above the 50th.
He goes off eating when he gets his teeth through which is a bit of a nightmare as well!

Glamazon

J has pretty much stayed on the 25th centile but I've not had him weighed since beginning of May and that was only because we were in A&E and they did it. Think he was about 18lb 11oz IIRC

I don't feed him during the week unless he has some weetabix around 6pm - he has most of his meals at creche. Think I'll start giving him food when he gets in, I was doing it the first week but I thought that might have been keeping him up eating too much!

i need to put the Thorntons away - help!

My_Fathers_Daughter

Benjamin usually has a banana at around 6.20pm. He eats his dinner at 5pm with the CM so he needs a snack before bedtime.

Dinner is a new word atm - pronounced 'DEE-NAH'



We went for a walk to the local open farm this morning. It is a mile each way so a good stretch of the legs for us and DSS and Benjamin (who Stokke'd it up there) loved running around looking at the animals and the weather was glorious for us - it is piddling it down now.

I have cooked beef in the SC but have no potatoes or carrots so I need to brave the rain and have a run up to the shop.

elle_gee

Afternoon all..

Just paused for a sarnie and rather large energy-boosting slab of carrot cake I can hear voices in the other room which would indicate Rhys is stealing OH's sandwich and egg custard again!

Am on a cleaning and tidying mission today. Not started on the packing at all, will blitz it later on (I hope!)

Hope everyone is having a nice day xx

Mazcabs

Blimey Elle did you break the thread :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

redmel1621

Glam - What time does he have his dinner at creche, maybe something light half an hour before bed might help, fwiw I am not sure if weetabix is quite heavy to give, as eating too much before bedtime stimulate the metabolism too much and you can actually wake up hungrier than if you had just had a light bite...iygwim. I know I am the same, if I eat to much late on I wake up staving!!

K has his dinner at 5pm (well we all do now, for his benefit!) and then I usually give him a piece of toast about 6.20-6.30 with a cup of milk, then he goes to bed at 7pm. I have done the same with the older two from very little too and they still have it as supper now, although usually hot chocolate instead of milk....

Just a thought

Glamazon

Hi Mel

He has tea at creche at 3.30pm, the first week he was there I was giving him tea with us at about 6pm as well but it was then he started waking so I wondered if he was having too much so I just gave him weetabix but quite often he'd either refuse that or refuse his bottle. I'll try something light like toast rather than a full meal this week and see how we go.

I thought he was waking because he refuses a bottle at creche and now I'm not convinced he's eating that much when he's there. We'll see tonight cos he's had a big snack at 3.30pm and will be having roast chicken dinner in bit.

He burns off so much energy the way he moves about so I think we'll need to start introducing some larger snacks!

redmel1621

3.30pm is quite early! I would definitely give him something else when he gets home then, but yeah maybe something quite light would work if he has already had a biggish dinner at creche......got to be worth a try anyway:)

K has breakfast at 7am, snack at about 9.30/10am then lunch at between 12pm-1pm (depends when he wakes after his nap), then snack at about 3/3.30pm then dinner at 5pm then supper 6.20/6.30.

Glamazon

They do breakfast when I drop him off at 8.15am, snack at 10.30am, lunch at 11.30 and tea at 3.30pm. I pick him up at 5.15pm so get home about 5.45pm. He was having half a jar of food, it's been a bit trial and error with the whole change in routine so hopefully if I give him something light when we get in and then his bottle at 7.30am it should keep him going a bit longer.

Don't stick to creche routine on the weekend though - I am not eating meals that early! :cool: