MSE Parents Club Part 16

jennynoo

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

On food: I am having constant battles with DS over eating at the moment too.

He used to be fantastic and would eat anything I spooned/put in front of him. Now he won't be spoon fed, and for the last few days has thrown anything I put in front of him on the floor. I've started dreading mealtimes I find them really stressful and frustrating, and to my shame a couple of times I've snapped a bit and shouted at him..not good. A surefire way to ensure he gets a complex about eating

Hi MV, I'm halfway reading 'my child wont eat' by Carlos Gonzales. It's really good and basically says they often stop eating around 12 months onwards as they aren't growing anywhere near as much as they were in the first year. They will eat as much as they need so basically you shouldn't worry, just keep putting healthy food in front of him and he will eat what he needs. This way he also learns to control his own diet so he wont have problems later in life. If you are worried you can keep weighing him and if his weight goes down after several readings then you need to be worried but otherwise it's all normal. I really recommend the book, it's also got some really good advice about breastfeeding and bottle feeding as well as children's eating habits and based on scientific research. I've done all the things you shouldn't do like shouting, guilt trips and 'one more bite and you can have dessert' but it's not too late to change.

gizmodo_2

Make-it-3 wrote: »

My LO is the opposite, she's beginning to eat at nursery now, but for the first few weeks would go all day on fresh air - not even taking much milk. I think its just the different food they have there. She prefers her food with a bit of a kick (that's her Indian blood) and some of the nursery food is really quite bland.

Today was good, but there was chilli on the menu. She also done her first painting for me today - its rather Pollock-esque in style but shows distinct flair for colour. I shall treasure it forever.

I have to say I think my DD prefers stronger flavours. Unless she's having one of her strikes, she wolfs down the Korma, loves my mums Chicken soup (which is packed with flavour), loves marmite on toast, loves paella...

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

Giz - how is the TTC going? We are talking about going for it again in August. I do want a 2nd, but every now and then I think back to the early days and wonder what I am letting myself in for!

Well I'm still not pregnant...so terribly! I have the perfect chart this month though (http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/24c425) I'm very proud of it! Shame there's not much BDing going on, but I should be in with a chance. And that chart makes it look like I'm definitely ovulating. Nice strong temperature increase, and it fit in with the positive ov stick

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

On food: I am having constant battles with DS over eating at the moment too.

He used to be fantastic and would eat anything I spooned/put in front of him. Now he won't be spoon fed, and for the last few days has thrown anything I put in front of him on the floor. I've started dreading mealtimes I find them really stressful and frustrating, and to my shame a couple of times I've snapped a bit and shouted at him..not good. A surefire way to ensure he gets a complex about eating

Hmmm, I also get quite stressed, although considering I hate mess I am dealing with the throwing food on the floor problem quite well. She very deliberately drops food on the floor that she doesn't want to eat.

Tonights dinner was egg, homemade (oven) chips and peas. She threw the egg on the floor and ate every single pea. And half the chips then put the rest on the floor.

I'm afraid I'm too chicken to let her go to bed on just peas, so I gave her weetabix after :S I bet that's totally the wrong thing to do, but I want my sleep!

gizmodo_2

Oh and I'm very jealous of the painting MI3 I've tried getting DD to draw, but she just likes picking up and putting down the pencils!! She did finally get the aquadoodle and did some squiggles.

delain

When I took squeak to stay and play, they had glitter... Squeak liked the glitter and seemed to think the glue spatula (you know, the white plastic ones we all remember from primary school!) Was a spoon with which to eat the glue:doh: she does like to scribble with crayons though, and we made a big fuss of a beatiful 'picture' today

I am daily surprised by what she knows... She understands a lot more than I remember the older ones knowing at 18 months. We were on the bus yesterday and I said to her 'we'll get off the bus now' and she went to press the bell :eek:

She doesn't get the difference between weekdays and weekends though, OH bought her in with us when she woke up before 7...and she seemed to be in a hurry and she didn't know how to tell me to get up so she waved to me and daid "bye, shoeson, bus" :rotfl:

And OH has just found a big chocolate stash in the garage that he put away ages ago for Christmas and forgot about. There was 3 big tins... There goes the diet, ho hum lol

Make-it-3

Don't worry Giz, I don't exactly know how much help my LO got with her painting! I think they just wanted her to have something to take home to mummy & daddy to show she celebrated Holi.

We went to Clarkes today to get LO measured for her first shoes. She's small, so I was a bit worried the walkers would be too big, but she made it into a size 3, the smallest size they do. Expensive tho at£32 and we're supposed to go back in 6-8 weeks to see if they still fit :eek: I would have held off a little longer bare foot but nursery are saying she needs them for the play area outside.

gizmodo_2

They are expensive MI3, I got given some by a friend. And I'm trying to buy some on ebay but keep getting outbid. She's a 3G, or 2.5G in startrite. She loves her shoes, she brings them to me to put on

MERFE

Giz Bob does that too throwing it on the floor. Tonight he had nothing but think he was too tired to eat, then managed to stay up later than normal playing, had his milk - I'm a tough mum - dont eat it then nothing else. When he was poorly though I offered alsorts all the time and def gave him cereal at bedtime too at least once because it was one of the things he would eat.

Bob was a 31/5G when he was measured last, I'm going to get them done again next week hopefully. He is properly wondering around now and goes backwards too - I dont remember the older two walking backwards - is it weird?

Delain that is so cute, bless her. Bob waves at me and says Bye when he wants to go upstairs.

*BigBird*

That's so sweet delain Joe also waves and says bye when he's heading upstairs to bed - even when I'm following right behind him!

He also says "oh dear" just as he's about to drop some food on the floor :rotfl: Luckily he doesn't do that too much though as he's learning to put things on the side of his tray if he doesn't want them. He's also getting more into eating meat now he has some molars - we went out for lunch yesterday and he was happily munching away on DH's gammon steak

Joe's been very clingy with me lately, which is nice but does get quite wearing. And I think DH feels a bit put out sometimes when Joe always wants me to carry him and isn't bothered if he goes somewhere but screams the place down as soon as I leave the room.

Joe also didn't have his afternoon nap on Friday or yesterday :eek: He seemed to doze without actually falling asleep and was then wide awake and chatting in his cot. He seemed OK by the time we got to bedtime, so the dozing must have been enough, but I really don't think he's ready to drop his nap yet. And I'm definitely not ready for him to drop his nap! :rotfl:

That's crazy that you'll be better off not working MERFE.

delain

Squeak is another one who says bye at bedtime... Can't believe how grown up they all ate now, seems only last week their births were announced!

Squeak is daddys girl though. He gets kisses and hugs more than I do, but hes at work all day so she has chance to miss him i suppose.

She is funny sometimes, last week she went up for her sleep and I asked her for a kiss, she looked at me, smiled and kissed the door and the clothes on the radiator, and then grinned at me. Maybe she thinks I'm too needy :rotfl:

Oh and she has slapped cheek, in between leaving the house this morning and school drop off, poor mite's face is all red

MERFE

*BigBird* wrote: »

That's crazy that you'll be better off not working MERFE.

I know - its insane and I'm actually a bit angry about it but I could do with the family time so just gonna go with it for now - Think it'll all change when universal credit comes in - they dont want any sahm once the child reaches 5 apparently. The crazy thing is at the moment we could claim housing benefit but dont because it'd only be £10 a week so doesnt seem worth it but if I'm not working it jumps to £45 per week. I'm still not gonna claim it because we dont need to and if we dont need to it means they are giving it out to people who are claiming when they dont need to. Its crazy, gotta wonder how they work all their figures out. The cost of petrol means I'm deffo better off at home for now, maybe I'll get something closer to home when Bob is a bit older. Staying seasonal at work because I dont like the idea of not having a job but it'll just be occassional work - so long as HR say its ok.