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SusanC_2

We've done BLW and it hasn't been that messy (or at least no messier than I imagine conventional weaning is). It's pretty much no effort at all as we more or less just give Alice pieces of what we're having and leave her to it while we're eating our food. It took 2 months before she was consuming anything and another month before she started consuming significant amounts. At breakfast and lunch I do BF, solids, top-up BF and at tea (which we only started recently when she started properly eating) I do solids before the bath and BF afterwards. Apparently in the original research done by Gillian Rapley, they offered babies food from four months but it wasn't until 6 months that they started actually eating it so I wouldn't have any qualms about starting earlier if my baby seemed interested although with Alice it's only now she's eating quite a bit that she's started to show an interest. My mum did ask a few times how she was getting on with baby rice and didn't quite seem to understand when I said she just had normal food but she doesn't tell us what to do which is nice.

fac, does Elliot suck his thumb? We found Alice rejected tye dummy once she started sucking her tyhumb at about two minthxs. Excuse tuypods am n.a.k. and Alice is wa\v ing hetr leg about.

cha97michelle

Agutka wrote: »

She gave my lovely son cake (!) to suck on, then a carrot 'look he loves it! why aren't you feeding him, poor baby' 'My son was already eating meals'.
(her lovely son who refuses to eat now, apart from running around with green beans - I swear I have never seen him eat a meal in his 3 years).

I thought peer pressure was bad enough at school!

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:eek: this winds me up most - other peopls thinking it ok to feed your baby. Did she even ask you???

My nephew was given a jammy dodger at about 3 months old by his dad's relative (OK cos it was dipped in tea apparently) and then at his christening, one of his silly aunties on the other side gave him cheesy wotsits - again with the 'look, he loves it'.

Course they do - they are like puppies and everything goes in their mouth regardless of what upset it might cause later.

To be honest - it still winds me up if other people feed DS even now - particularly things like giving him a whole grape when i would rather it was chopped in half in case he chokes - 17 months is not adult. Plus, i will just buy him these smarties and easter bunny biscuits (MIL) because i haven't seen him for 3 months and feel like spoiling him.

DS is so fussy now after going to nursery - which is weird as he will eat almost anything there, but refuses what i give him now. I think he is just becoming assertive, and i am not fussing about it, i still offer him a main course followed by some fruit or yoghurt, or sometimes some junk as i am only human, and he eats what he chooses, and what he doesn't eat then tough.

daphne_descends

SusanC wrote: »

We've done BLW and it hasn't been that messy (or at least no messier than I imagine conventional weaning is). It's pretty much no effort at all as we more or less just give Alice pieces of what we're having and leave her to it while we're eating our food. It took 2 months before she was consuming anything and another month before she started consuming significant amounts. At breakfast and lunch I do BF, solids, top-up BF and at tea (which we only started recently when she started properly eating) I do solids before the bath and BF afterwards. Apparently in the original research done by Gillian Rapley, they offered babies food from four months but it wasn't until 6 months that they started actually eating it so I wouldn't have any qualms about starting earlier if my baby seemed interested although with Alice it's only now she's eating quite a bit that she's started to show an interest. My mum did ask a few times how she was getting on with baby rice and didn't quite seem to understand when I said she just had normal food but she doesn't tell us what to do which is nice.

fac, does Elliot suck his thumb? We found Alice rejected tye dummy once she started sucking her tyhumb at about two minthxs. Excuse tuypods am n.a.k. and Alice is wa\v ing hetr leg about.

My mum goes on about baby rice too, she laughed herself silly when I talked to her about BLW but did relent a bit when I showed her some of the pictures on the website.

On another parenting forum someone posted weaning guidelines from 1939, it was quite fascinating. Milk until 6 motnhs then just crusts for a month. Half an egg yolk and gravy and then actual food introduced at around 10 months. How things change.

Elliot still hasn't really found his thumb, he does chomp on his hand or suck his fingers but will then be seen coughing, choking, and being sick as he rams them down too far - I think he chews on them to relieve the teething pain.

I'm trying yo work out what n/a/k means while Elliot tries to mash a`his face into the keyboard :rotfl:

Agutka I took that to be l ighthearteed but like Michelle I'd actually be furious if someone else fed Elliot.

3KIDSNOMONEY

Hi everyone, just after a bit of advice.

I am breastfeeding my 3 week old and feel as though i ought to continue, i have bf for 7 months before and know i can do it. Finding it difficult as i have other children and am thinking about introducing a formula feed in the evening to give the option of OH feeding and so that i know that baby has had a good feed before bed and hopefully might sleep better. Has anybody else tried this, did you regret introducing formula?

Also, i passed my driving test when 36 weeks pregnant and have my own care now, but am avoiding driving with baby in the car. eventually i am going to have to drive with him in the car. Was anybody else nervous about driving with a newborn?

Another question, Thinking about introducing 'bedtime' to baby already by putting him to bed at 7.30 every night. mainly because my son who is nearly 5 still doesn't 'do' bedtime and i really think i will need some routine this time. Did anyone else try this?

Thanks everyone.

izoomzoom

My conclusion after three children is that they will sleep through when they want to. DS1&2 didn't sleep through until they were 18 months old. Samantha on the other hand was sleeping for 9 hours straight when she was 2-3 weeks old. In all honesty she has had times when she has woken 2 times during the night, but the vast majority is a full night unwoken, and by that I now mean 11-13 hours.

All three of mine have been BF so it must be the 'make up' of this particular child, as I haven't chaned my 'parenting'.

By all means try FF but if it was a cure to make babies sleep through why don't all FF sleep through ???? In terms of giving you a break and OH a chance, then definitely give FF but I doubt it will make baby sleep for longer.

Regarding settling down in the evening, we started putting Samantha upstairs when she was about 6-7 weeks old, and that has been our routine since. Prior to that she would have us up until nearly midnight which DH found particularly difficult as he had to get up the next morning for work.

Hope things work out for you.;)

chocaholic110

We tried a bottle of formula before bed to give me a break, but Tom is not in the slightest bit interested. He will take breastmilkfrom a bottle no problem but have tried a few kinds of formula and he just doesn't drink it. I do enjoy weekends though when I have time to express and OH can do the night-time feed.
Also Tom has pretty much started going to sleep after the feed after bath-time and waking up just to be fed. He's still having a couple of feeds in the night but as the health visitor said, he's still only 9lb so only has a little tummy to fill. He goes straight back off anyway and only seems to have "dirty" nappies in the daytime so I'm quite happy with that!

And I was trying to work out n/a/k too!

SusanC_2

fac73 wrote: »

On another parenting forum someone posted weaning guidelines from 1939, it was quite fascinating. Milk until 6 motnhs then just crusts for a month. Half an egg yolk and gravy and then actual food introduced at around 10 months. How things change.

Fancy that! I wonder if it was the Truby King method which influenced earlier weaning.

fac73 wrote: »

I'm trying yo work out what n/a/k means while Elliot tries to mash a`his face into the keyboard :rotfl:

Nursing at keyboard.

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

I am breastfeeding my 3 week old and feel as though i ought to continue, i have bf for 7 months before and know i can do it. Finding it difficult as i have other children and am thinking about introducing a formula feed in the evening to give the option of OH feeding and so that i know that baby has had a good feed before bed and hopefully might sleep better. Has anybody else tried this, did you regret introducing formula?

Didn't do a formula feed but did (and still do) an EBM feed. It certainly made BF a lot more manageable as it gave me a longer break from feeding which was welcome in the early days of nipple soreness and meant that I could go to bed sooner as OH does that feed and therefore get a good amount of sleep before the night feed. I could say that it helped with sleeping but Alice was always a fairly good sleeper pretty much from day one so I'm not sure I can put it down to that. It is nice to know that she has had a definite amount at that time though as your milk supply can be lower in the evening so unless you've got those special baby scales you don't know whether they've had plenty or not.

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

Also, i passed my driving test when 36 weeks pregnant and have my own care now, but am avoiding driving with baby in the car. eventually i am going to have to drive with him in the car. Was anybody else nervous about driving with a newborn?

Yes I was. I don't think I did for months as most things are within walking distance and while I was pregnant I was too ill to drive so I was in the habit of only going out in the car when OH was around to drive. Once you've done it a few times though you get used to it.

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

Another question, Thinking about introducing 'bedtime' to baby already by putting him to bed at 7.30 every night. mainly because my son who is nearly 5 still doesn't 'do' bedtime and i really think i will need some routine this time. Did anyone else try this?

We put Alice to bed at seven from about ten days. I don't know if it made a difference to how she sleeps but it meant we had a little bit of time together in the evenings which was nice. We did have a recent phase of objecting to bedtime (and naps) but it seems to have passed.

purplepatch

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

Also, i passed my driving test when 36 weeks pregnant and have my own care now, but am avoiding driving with baby in the car. eventually i am going to have to drive with him in the car. Was anybody else nervous about driving with a newborn?

Wow, well done for passing your test at such a late stage in pregnancy!

I think it's only natural to be nervous about driving with baby in the car especially as you have only been driving a very short time. Can you get your oh or a friend to accompany you a couple of times to give your confidence a bit of a boost?

3KIDSNOMONEY

thanks for your replies. gonna try expressing before i try formula milk. once i have worked out how to do the pump i got new off freecycle. Really could do with oh feeding last feed as so tired and bf makes me feel worse and going to try bedtime routine. he can't weigh much over 9lb so i am not expecting him to sleep thru yet but a few hours would be good. does anyone
else find that bfing suppresses their appetite? i'm ok when not feeding but as soon as he's feeding i can't eat.

been leaving baby with mum if i have to drive anywhere but this isn't ideal when bf'ing so gonna have to start driving with him. midwife says that babies are more resiliant than you might think and my 'jerky' driving won't do him any harm - i just get so nervous that i want a bit more confidence first - just wish i had done it years ago as bringing up my other kids when i had to walk everywhere or use buses or miss out on doing things was really hard.

Hawksmuir

We bought about £250 worth of reusable nappies, liners, pants etc, before Cameron was born.

Now at 16 weeks we have hardly used them, however we have taken them out of the packaging so they were easier to store. (Tommee Tippee size 1)

Will this be sellable on ebay ?