MSE Parents Club Part 16

MERFE

CL wrote: »

What do you give for dessert? I have given her pieces of apple, but they are sucked and get slippy and end up on the floor in seconds.

I normally give Bob a couple of strawberries, raspberries, mashed banana, cucumber slices or soften apple slices. I normally start of with him feeding himself then I finish off doing it cos he gets frustrated. He has puree dinner first at lunchtime and dinner time then finger things. Sometimes he has a yoghurt for dessert or if he is really lucky a baby biscuit which he loves. He has porridge for breakfast and 3 8oz formula feeds throughout the day and this seems enough for him. He is also 6 months.

CL

I'll get some strawberries tomorrow. Mashed banana makes her gag.

pigpen

yoghurts.. she will eat dozens of them.
mashed fruit, jelly (that was fun!!)
Fruit with custard.. sometimes crumble
rice pudding

If she is hungry she can't feed herself it is to slow.. self feeding is for snacks apparently.

elainec

i find giving the meat dish at lunch and then the vegetable dish at tea helps cos more gets eaten that way, so stopes the hunger, I also give a couple of snacks a day, normally bread sticks, rice cakes etc.
H is a good eater normally but he does have some days where he just doesnt want to eat and then other days he seems to be starving. Just like adults i guess!

digitalphase

Hi ladies, hope you can help. Alex seems to have colic Especially in evening, he will scream and I can't settle him for a while. He also has episodes through the day, but can normally be calmed down by offering boob or dummy. He goes red in the face, clenches his fists, kick boxes and just generally looks in pain He gets really angry.

I waited in doctors for over an hour yesterday at their pool surgery, then was seen by the worse doctor in the history of doctors. Just gave me a print out on colic, recommended I keep on with the Infacol, and squeezed Alex's abdomen to check there was nothing sinister (obviously this bit had to be done and I am glad he did it). But I then ended up with a screaming baby who needed to be changed and was hungry. It had taken ages for him to settle in the afternoon, kept going back on and off boob and grizzling in between. So the wait in the doctors threw our timing right out. Thankfully he calmed down in the car on the way home and was fine when I got him out, then fed him.

He tends to grizzle a lot after a feed during the day/evening. Will usually be OK at night/early morning. A dummy calms him down but then he sometimes spits it out. A lot of the time he will go on boob and fall asleep.

Just looking for any advice/tips please from mothers who have had or have colicky babies themselves

Oh I'll just add he is 3 weeks on Friday and is breast fed exclusively.

delain

Sorry to say I can't help Digital, I've not had any experience of colic.

Squeak has just polished off a soft cheese sandwich, sliced peppers, and now some grapes. Think I'll chop the rest of the pepper and take it out with us, she seems to really like it :rotfl:

pigpen

Mine just wants daddy's bacon butty!

delain

pigpen wrote: »

Mine just wants daddy's bacon butty!

I don't blame her, wouldn't say no to one myself!

*BigBird*

Thanks to everyone who has posted about finger foods for babies. Joe has been ill the last few days and is completely off his solids at the moment. (Temperature of 39.7 on Saturday night :eek: - cue a late night dash to the out of hours doctor ) He seems much better today and has happily gone off to the childminder. Anyway I'm thinking that as we are pretty much starting over with the solids after a little break, we could use this opportunity to ditch the purees and give BLW a go.

Reading other posts though, I don't think he really eats very much (when he is eating) in comparison to other babies his age. He'll be 7 months old next week, should I be worrying about it? I assumed that as he got more into the solids he'd want more of those and have less milk, but he's still drinking as much milk as he was before we started solids.

Sorry, I can't help you with colic digital. But Joe used to be a nightmare in the evenings when he was tiny. I'd heard about the "witching hour", but he would pretty much scream from about 7pm til around midnight. With him, it was basically hunger - he just wanted to feed constantly and screamed if he didn't have a boob in his mouth. This only stopped when I started giving him formula in the evening - after that he was like a different baby. (He still likes to tank up with milk in the evenings, won't go more than about 2 1/2 hours between his last 2 milk feeds even now that he has is tea in between them) It's early days for you so if it is hunger, hopefully your milk supply will get used to his demands. I wish I'd hung in there with the breastfeeding as I think introducing that evening bottle was what scuppered breastfeeding for us

Obviously I don't know if that's what the issue is with Alex, hopefully someone with more experience of colic can be more helpful

pigpen

digi.. have you tried colief or infacol? Look on the bright side they outgrow it at about 4 months!!!