MSE Parents Club Part 16

*BigBird*

We dropped a milk feed a few weeks back. With Joe having 3 solid meals a day and switching from 3 naps to 2, the times of his bottles shifted about and he regularly ended up with 2 being due close together. So we just dropped one and adjusted the times of the others to space them out (though he's not too fussed about having a rigid schedule)

Metranil_Vavin

CL wrote: »

Morning all. Just got AF for the first time in 16 months yesterday . I think it must be because I've dropped down to 2 BF recently as back to work a few days a week.

Are there any cold cereals apart from Weetabix that would be suitable for a 7 month old? My LO has Weetabix for supper. When it was colder she would have had Readybrek or warm milk in Weetabix. She seems to have gone off Weetabix and I really want to give her supper with milk, as she refuses to take a bottle, or milk in a sippy cup, but don't want to give anything that is full of sugar. Any ideas?

Josh loves porridge with some apple or pear added to it to sweeten it up a bit.

**confuzzled**

*BigBird* wrote: »

We dropped a milk feed a few weeks back. With Joe having 3 solid meals a day and switching from 3 naps to 2, the times of his bottles shifted about and he regularly ended up with 2 being due close together. So we just dropped one and adjusted the times of the others to space them out (though he's not too fussed about having a rigid schedule)

Cheers BB DDs not fussed about a rigid schedule either she's a very laid back little lady
Out of curiosity which bottle did you drop?? Does Joe have his milk after his food??
DD has food then milk at all meals except brekkie when she has milk 1st....couldn't imagine eating without having my brew 1st so figure must be the same for her lol

Metranil_Vavin

Josh seems to have gone from maybe 1 poo every 4-5 days, to 3 poo's today so far and counting! Is that normal?

They're more solid now as he is weaning, but he's just followed 2 solidish ones with a splurty runnyish one. I don't think he is poorly - he seems very chipper.

I'm meant to be taking him swimming this afternoon, wondering if it's a good idea now with all this bottom activity!

redmel1621

CL wrote: »

Are there any cold cereals apart from Weetabix that would be suitable for a 7 month old? My LO has Weetabix for supper. When it was colder she would have had Readybrek or warm milk in Weetabix. She seems to have gone off Weetabix and I really want to give her supper with milk, as she refuses to take a bottle, or milk in a sippy cup, but don't want to give anything that is full of sugar. Any ideas?

How about cornflakes, shreddies, bran flakes...any of those would be fine imo...just leave them to go a bit soggy so they aren't sharp/crunchy.

**confuzzled** wrote: »

Anyone give me any hint about dropping milk feeds?? DD just isn't that interested in milk anymore except at bedtime and I was wondering is it best to drop the amount of milk slowly at each feed or just get rid of 1 feed completely??

Any ideas or advice would be appreciated..especially those of you with loads of [STRIKE]brats[/STRIKE] little darlings as I imagine you've had differences with each 1.

TIA and sorry for the sudden multi-posts..I feel like a spammer:p:D

I always just dropped the whole milk feed, once they weren't really interested in it. I would usually offer a little snack and water/juice instead.

**confuzzled**

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

Josh seems to have gone from maybe 1 poo every 4-5 days, to 3 poo's today so far and counting! Is that normal?

They're more solid now as he is weaning, but he's just followed 2 solidish ones with a splurty runnyish one. I don't think he is poorly - he seems very chipper.

I'm meant to be taking him swimming this afternoon, wondering if it's a good idea now with all this bottom activity!

Sounds normal to me:) the splurty bottom chocolate..I'd put down to getting rid of the last of his muck for the time being....or it could be 1 of the signs for teething?? But if he's happy in himself don't worry about it and go swimming, swim nappies or whatever you use are designed to contain the mess

**confuzzled**

redmel1621 wrote: »

I always just dropped the whole milk feed, once they weren't really interested in it. I would usually offer a little snack and water/juice instead.

Thanks redmel:) think I'm going to drop the late morning feed and space out the afternoon feeds to accomodate the change and see how she gets on:) won't be til friday anyway, I don't want her playing up for the ILs or childminder if she doesn't like the changes:)

*BigBird*

**confuzzled** wrote: »

Out of curiosity which bottle did you drop?? Does Joe have his milk after his food??

We dropped his 4:30pm bottle. He used to have one around 2 and then one around 4:30. Now he has his lunch at 1:30ish and isn't wanting a bottle at 2, so that switched to around 3. If he's with the CM she'll give him a snack before the school run and then the bottle after. Then he has his tea around 5:30 and his last bottle when he goes to bed at around 7.

We space the feeds out, so his day is roughly
7am bottle
8:30am breakfast
11am bottle
1:30pm lunch
3pm bottle
5:30pm tea
7pm bottle

He naps from around 9:30 to 10:30 and then from around 2 -3 (he'll go longer between naps with the CM when he's playing with the other kids and naps on the school run). He also has water with each of his solid feeds, though he doesn't really drink very much of that. If I give him his bottle too close to his food he doesn't have much of whichever comes second, so I've found he needs a gap of at least an hour before he's ready for the next feed.

Are there a couple of bottles your DD has that are reasonably close together? I'd just try combining them into 1 and making it inbetween the 2 current times. Joe wasn't bothered at all by the change, I don't think he even noticed.

MV, have you started weaning Josh fairly recently? Joe used to poo every other day, but when we got up to 3 meals a day he could've pooed for England! It settled down after a bit, though he does poo more than before. We still have odd days when he'll do 3, but it's normally just 1 or 2 now.

And I'd go swimming. The swim nappy should catch any nastiness.

**confuzzled**

*BigBird* wrote: »

We dropped his 4:30pm bottle. He used to have one around 2 and then one around 4:30. Now he has his lunch at 1:30ish and isn't wanting a bottle at 2, so that switched to around 3. If he's with the CM she'll give him a snack before the school run and then the bottle after. Then he has his tea around 5:30 and his last bottle when he goes to bed at around 7.

We space the feeds out, so his day is roughly
7am bottle
8:30am breakfast
11am bottle
1:30pm lunch
3pm bottle
5:30pm tea
7pm bottle

He naps from around 9:30 to 10:30 and then from around 2 -3 (he'll go longer between naps with the CM when he's playing with the other kids and naps on the school run). He also has water with each of his solid feeds, though he doesn't really drink very much of that. If I give him his bottle too close to his food he doesn't have much of whichever comes second, so I've found he needs a gap of at least an hour before he's ready for the next feed.

Are there a couple of bottles your DD has that are reasonably close together? I'd just try combining them into 1 and making it inbetween the 2 current times. Joe wasn't bothered at all by the change, I don't think he even noticed.

we currently do this(times are all 'ish')
7:15am - bottle then brekkie
10am - 30mins nap
11:30am - baby food & bottle
2pm - 1-1.5 hr nap
3:30pm - baby food & bottle
6pm - supper
7:15pm - bedtime bottle

and she has snacks in between!...think I'm going to do away with the 11:30 bottle and move the 3:30 bottle to around 1pm-ish which might help her settle for her 2nd nap better as she started to fight the sleepiness!

pigpen

2 mattresses replaced so far ... FLING.. that'll be the boys hating me for the next few days... I also binned 2 binbags of crap from their room.. And to create even more trouble.. washed their duvets/covers and took the junk off their beds!!

I love my job...

2 down.. 4 to replace!!!

Doing 1 more before school run.. I think I am broken! .. my nail definitely is!