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Agutka

Mazcabs wrote: »

Hi girls

Started LO with a bit of baby rice today, he wasnt that impressed but then gave him a bit of apple puree and he didnt spit either of them out so its a start.

Question: I sterilised the spoons but do I need to sterilise the bowl as well?

Might look tomorrow for a couple of other things for him to try..making the baby rice is such a palarvar ie making up the milk and then mixing it with the rice, I wonder can I use the ready made milk with the rice?

By the time they're eating they are putting all sorts in their mouths, so as long as you wash the stuff there is no need to sterilise. Only the milk bottles, as tsstss7 said, need to be sterilised forever. I was really careful that first week that everything was spotless and not touching anything :rolleyes:, but you relax into a more normal behaviour eventually.

As for baby rice - I keep sterilised bottles with boiled water on the side and use that to make his food. That's what he drinks too, although I sometimes just use water out of the kettle if I know it's been boiled resonably recently. I then pour a bit of water into bowl, add milk powder (30mls to the scoop, no more, maybe less) and add baby rice, stir with germy spoon and hey presto.

If you want a proper pelava my mum used to go shopping every day - bundle me up, go via the butcher for choice cuts, greengrocer for fresh veg, get home chop, prepare, cook veg soup, puree through a sieve and try to feed me. At which point I would spit it all out at her :eek:. Next day, same routine. I wander if she had time to play with me.
Explains why she was taken aback when I got veggy cubes out of the freezer for J yesterday .

SusanC_2

My HV said that there's no need to sterilise weaning stuff for the same reason Agutka just said. She said sterilise bottles as long as you use them but that's it.

Mazcabs

Thanks guys, I thought it was probably ok especially as I said before 'when we were kids I am sure that loads of things werent kept as clean as now, everythings hyper clean !!!!'

Agutka - Take it you mean you add both rice and milk powder together and then add water? Sorry Pregnancy brain still around as I've only been back at work for 3 weeks!!

Only going to use jars to start with as OH is insistant that 'LO's not going to have all that cr*p out of the jars'.... told him though thats ok as long as he chips in with making it all. these men have such good ideas dont they.

purplepatch

Controversial maybe, but I only sterilised bottles for 6 months, after that they just went top shelf of the dishwasher. No problems whatsoever. If you google it you see so much conflicting information and in other western countries it is deemed ok to stop at 6 months, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Prior to 6 months I never sterilised anything other than the bottles either, bowls and cutlery all went in the dishwasher.

SusanC_2

purplepatch wrote: »

Controversial maybe, but I only sterilised bottles for 6 months, after that they just went top shelf of the dishwasher. No problems whatsoever. If you google it you see so much conflicting information and in other western countries it is deemed ok to stop at 6 months, so I thought I'd give it a try.

I would definitely have considered doing that but we don't have a dishwasher.

JoJoB

Hello, newbie parent here. Had Iris on the 17th and utterly exhausted, but very happy. :j She has taken to breastfeeding very well and seems to be getting more relaxed as the days go by (first couple of days consisted of her looking quite frightened and screaming at every opportunity, which I suppose is normal considering what she has just been through!). She's looking much happier now though.

My brain is all over the place though. Got the mw here in a few minutes and typically have nearly burned the place down by putting steriliser in the microwave and forgetting to put water in it. :eek: I have now ruined the steriliser, all my bottles, and my breast pump. :mad: And Iris and I are having to hide out in the bedroom till the toxic burnt plastic fumes disperse.

As the mw came yesterday when oh was in the middle of burning breakfast I don't think he'll be too impressed!

Agutka

Mazcabs wrote: »

Agutka - Take it you mean you add both rice and milk powder together and then add water? Sorry Pregnancy brain still around as I've only been back at work for 3 weeks!!

I put in water, then milk powder,stir, then rice, big stir - so effectively you're making the baby rice with milk. Oh and fruit puree on top, yum!

I've given J three jars of the 'mum's own recipe' Heinz thingies and he wouldn't touch any of them. But had a breakthrough this weekend when he wouldn't have much Gloop (my soup gone wrong) so I tried a Heinz tin of bolognese and he ate it!! Whoohoo, emergency meal on standby! It smelt lovely, but tasted of tomatoey cornflour, poor babies...

SusanC_2

Well that beats my husband managing to partly melt a bottle on a trangia.

Agutka

JoJoB wrote: »

And Iris and I are having to hide out in the bedroom till the toxic burnt plastic fumes disperse.

:eek:;) This is sooo cute, poor you! It gets better I promise, the hormones disperse too. I'm sure the midwife has seen it all, maybe she can help you clean up! How expensive for you though. Maybe you should have cornflakes and takeaways for a while .
Such a pretty name btw.

SeptemberBaby_2

Jojo, just saw this pic from the Preg Club and Iris is adorable. I hope you are both OK after 'the incident'!

Poppy and I have been to Baby Signing class today. I have learnt lots of words and can even sign to 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' although my current favourite words are 'naughty daddy' :rotfl:

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