MSE Parents Club Part 13

ladybirdintheuk

Morning all - walking dead here this morning. Izzy was sick in the night, so we've had a second night of no-where near enough sleep, as she also had a raging fever, and wouldn't let me leave her until she was properly asleep. So now I have to call my Mum and see if she can look after her today - no way I can send her into nursery. Then off to be a zombie juror. Hoorah.

aless02

Oh no, ladybird, I hope Izzy feels better (and you get some sleep!). Is it just a bug do you think?

Good night for us here (finally!), except someone woke up at 5:45 with a leaky diaper, something that's only happened once or twice since he was born!

ladybirdintheuk

Ta Aless - we both have a cough, so I don't know if it is that. She has been off colour for a while, and I've been blaming it on teeth, but maybe that wasn't the whole story! She is a lot better this morning - temperature is back to normal. Still not quite herself, but we have already had a tantrum because I won't let her bang her shoes on the tv, so she can't be that ill

My parents are going to do the honours today, but I'm going to ask when I get to jury service if I can go home again if I'm not needed. ~Otherwise I might have to lie on the chairs and doze in the corner in the jury waiting room.

SugarSpun

Morning all!

Pukey baby is back to normal. She did only eat half her breakfast though (this seems to be a trend with meals at the moment) so I'm keeping an eye on it. Is it possible that it's normal to want to eat less?

gill_81uk

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Gill - what I did was learn a tiny bit about BLW and a tiny bit about pureeing and then stuff it all and do what the hell I liked and whatever suited Benjamin.

When you just make it up as you go along then life is easy Apparently there are 'rules' about weaning but nobody told Benjamin about them so he won't judge me for it!!

We still do whatever we fancy - Benjamin can wield a spoon but so can I.

IMHO you need tons of patience to do full on BLW I am too impatient for that. And I am too lazy to do purees. We just made up our own rules

Sounds just like me - lazy and impatient lol. Thanks to everyone else who shared too, some really good advice there. :j

Hope everyone had a good night. T woke up at 3ish but went back to sleep again and didnt wake up until 5.50 :j I could do with him sleeping an hour longer but I guess 8.15 to 6am is pretty good going for a 3 month old lol. This seems to be his new routine since he went into his big cot

SusanC_2

aless02 wrote: »

Gill, here is a great place to start: http://babyledweaning.blogware.com/blog/GettingStartedFingerFoodBasics/FingerFoodBasicsMonth1 . But one of the basic tenets of BLW is not starting too early - baby needs to be able to sit up fairly independently and be able to grasp food and put into its mouth by itself - all of which usually doesn't happen until 6 months, so usually BLWers are also ones who wait until the 6 month mark .

IIRC in the original research they started at four months and found that they didn't start actually consuming anything until six months. I think the key theory behind it is that the baby will be able to feed themselves if they need it (or conversely if they can't feed themselves they don't need it). Although some people wait longer than six months before starting. :whistle:

SusanC_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

IMHO you need tons of patience to do full on BLW I am too impatient for that. And I am too lazy to do purees. We just made up our own rules

I just used to do all the clearing up and washing up while Alice was still "eating" but we eat in the kitchen which makes that fairly convenient. She's worse these days - sometimes I can make bread after my meal before she's finished.

BrunoM

Susan, it coincided with your offline time so you may not have seen it but I had a quick go at a complaint letter for you the other day.

SusanC_2

BrunoM wrote: »

Susan, it coincided with your offline time so you may not have seen it but I had a quick go at a complaint letter for you the other day.

I was just about to say thank you actually. It's brilliant and very different in style and structure from what I would have written. I shall edit it with appropriate real details and pass it on to Beenie. Thank you very much.

searching_me

just a quickie before i go do lots of things today ...

im booking the tickets for thinktank .. have been told that for every 8 children one adult goes free otherwise as a group its £7pa £4.23 pc 3-15 and free for under 3's .. im saying 10 adults 13 children x