MSE Parents Club Part 14

SusanC_2

redstararnie76 wrote: »

Our highchair turned up yesterday and F looks so small in it, I desperately want to take a photo of him but I lent my camera to my parents to take on holiday with them .

I thinkt hey make highchairs ridiculously big - when Alice stopped using hers, we still had the straps on the tightest setting and they were loose. This is two months before we stopped using it and you can see the straps are falling off her shoulders:

fernliebee

kindofagilr wrote: »

Geniune BLW question here, i just wonder how you know your baby is getitng enough food? I personally would worry they weren't getting enough food? That's why i feel more comfotprtable doing it the way i am, giving him his food every meal then i know for sure with that and his milk he is getting all the food he needs

Plus I just think some of the things we eat aren't suitable for e

Im not getting at anyone here, i am just curious

It's the same as with breastfeeding, you don;t *know* but you go with other signs such as nappies, how happy baby is, how they are in themselves etc. Remember milk has more nutrition in it than food and you wait for them to drop feeds so you know they are getting all they need in that. Food is just practice up until 1yr anyway, when, nutritionally they start needing more than milk can provide.

I didn't call it BLW as I didn't know about it with DD1, but she did it on her own. I couldn't be bothered to puree so I just fork mashed whatever we had, but DD had to do the spoon or else it wasn't allowed in After a few weeks I used to just give it to her whole as she ate better that way.

I think she was more than ready when we weaned at 5months 3 weeks, as she could sit unaided from 17 weeks, had teeth at 5 months and could use a spoon herself if we loaded it etc.

kindofagilr

Thanks for all the answers on blw, i just don't feel comfortable with it myself lol, i find it easier spoon feeding him, he does get finger food as well

Somnium

kindof - I think that at the end of the day you go with what works for you and your comfortable with.

delain

SusanC wrote: »

I thinkt hey make highchairs ridiculously big - when Alice stopped using hers, we still had the straps on the tightest setting and they were loose. This is two months before we stopped using it and you can see the straps are falling off her shoulders:

It looks like she's in the garage eating bugs!

Sorry I know they're probably raisins but the pic made me :rotfl::rotfl:

SusanC_2

delain wrote: »

It looks like she's in the garage eating bugs!

Sorry I know they're probably raisins but the pic made me :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl: We used to keep the bikes in the kitchen in our old house. They're currants.

Sami_Bee

gill_81uk wrote: »

Thanks Aless...it's more that I want to make sure what I can/can't give him atm as he's still 2 weeks from 6 months.

Hahaha he did an epic poo this morning for DH...must be the result of last night's porridge!

As with most things the answer lies in post #2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

General:

NHS Start4life - info on feeding from milk to solids and active play

3onitsway

Sami What's with your FB status? Has E been weighed this morning?

Sami_Bee

3onitsway wrote: »

Sami What's with your FB status? Has E been weighed this morning?

lol no, no chance of my baby ever being called fat There was an adorable squidgy baby on This Morning

3onitsway

Sami_Bee wrote: »

lol no, no chance of my baby ever being called fat There was an adorable squidgy baby on This Morning

:rotfl::rotfl:I thought you'd had E on a diet of deep fried mars bars and he'd suddenly become a squidgy fat baby! :rotfl::rotfl:


I'm a bit bored today. V is having a nap, everywhere is tidy and I don't even have any ironing to do.