MSE Parents Club Part 13

r.mac_2

brednall wrote: »

My daughter is about 6 and a half months and I am beginning to wonder if her feeding routine is right or wrong (as the advice I get from my local clinic is not exactly useful!)

SHe has breakfast at about 8-8.30 or 5 tsps of usually Heinz cereal mixed with water followed by 5oz of follow on formula

Lunch is a 7oz formula followed about an hour later by some fruit puree (currently one of the Organiz pots)

Tea is half a jar of baby food (up to now she's eaten whatever we've given her) or 5 tsps of Heinz dinners mixed with water followed by 5oz of formula

Last bottle is 7oz formula about 9pm then she usually sleeps through.

Unfortunately, she has chicken pox at the moment and we've had a few disturbed nights. This morning I had to give her 5oz at about 5am but then she didn't drink all her breakfast milk.

I am wondering whether to increase her 'solid' intake and give her a full jar at tea time then reduce her milk.

Also, we have wondered about the flavoured waters - would these be better with her meals rather than milk?

Thanks in advance

Emma & Jessica

hello. If your LO isns't very well then I would just let her have what she wants when she wants it - usually they are not interested in very much and its usually milk at that age.

Once she's back to health then I would continue to gradually introduce more solids. My LO tended to change how much she would eat from day to day which wasn't very helpful! TBH I wouldn't bother with flavoured waters. I'd continue to offer milk, but offer water in a beaker as she gets a bit older (9 months or so). Its certainly not needed until she's much older as she'll get her fluid needs from her milk/solids. sounds to me like you are doing a great job!

kindofagilr wrote: »

Cafc i just had a look and there is just a time knob and another knob which has what I can only describe as a half sun and a sun?

that'll be temperature - warm - halfsun and hot - full sun

r.mac_2

3onitsway wrote: »

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I'm hoping so, but doubting it. She doesn't like being still and i'm thinking the only reason she's been such a good night sleeper is because she was trapped in the cot and bored herself to sleep. :rotfl: She's hardly sleeping in the day at all now, because she can't stay still long enough too. The only time she sleeps during the day is strapped in the pram and out walking or in the car.



You did - thanks.

I know someone just like this - runs around from the moment she wakes, until the moment she goes to sleep. And talks continuously while running!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: perhaps V and A were twins seperated at birth and we got given the wrong ones? (except apparently I was exactly the same!)

I think we keep chanting the phrase 'its just a phase' to get ourselves through it! It is fun most of the time :rotfl:

Evansangel

Gill, the voucher is yours. I'll respond properly when im on my laptop. My phone is slow x

kindofagilr

Thanks rmac lol

I've voted for both babies on that stokko thing

Krystaltips

I think I would despair if I had to put Caitlyn in a bed now... There's no way she'd lie in it and go to sleep...

redmel1621

SusanC wrote: »

No I haven't (and am not planning to). Based on my longest recorded luteal phase, I reckon I'll be sure by Thursday. (Based on symptoms I'm currently about 90% sure I must be.)

Excellent:) I will be impatiently awaiting Thursday, but it does sound like you are pretty certain anyway:D

SugarSpun wrote: »

THAT OTHER BABY HAS CAUGHT UP TO BENJAMIN!!!! I insist that anyone who hasn't voted do so, there is no way this travesty can be allowed to stand.

Incidentally, I don't want to speak ill of babies, but I can't believe they think some of those babies are cuter than Molly - and they have two of the same baby, which I think is unfair.

I agree:mad:

gill_81uk

SugarSpun wrote: »

THAT OTHER BABY HAS CAUGHT UP TO BENJAMIN!!!! I insist that anyone who hasn't voted do so, there is no way this travesty can be allowed to stand.

Incidentally, I don't want to speak ill of babies, but I can't believe they think some of those babies are cuter than Molly - and they have two of the same baby, which I think is unfair.

I fully agree - Molly is just gorgous. (and I thought that when I first saw pictures of her, before I 'knew' you so not just being biased!)

EA - thanks

Susan - I can't believe your self-restraint. I'd have had to test immediately to be sure lol.

I've been scouring the local charity shops for a jumperoo or hop n pop today but they were all rubbish and had virtually no baby stuff at all :mad: I've never thought to look in charity shops before but my friend got a lot of really good stuff from some last week.

T has really cheered up since DH got home.....blooming typical now that there's two of us to look after him lol.

SusanC_2

gill_81uk wrote: »

Susan - I can't believe your self-restraint. I'd have had to test immediately to be sure lol.

But you're not supposed to be able to test until you think your period is due anyway? It just seems like a bit of a waste of money to spend 99p on a test when I don't need to.

gill_81uk

SusanC wrote: »

But you're not supposed to be able to test until you think your period is due anyway? It just seems like a bit of a waste of money to spend 99p on a test when I don't need to.

Oh I think I understand now....so by charting you've actually got a head start on knowing? I thought you were past the point where you could test and had incredible will power. I was one of the impatient ones who'd be (pointlessly) testing days after OVing

Claire_Jones_3

voted for those cute babies in the weird pushchairs (ducks before she gets shot down in flames!)

Now I can't seem to unlike the stokkie's!