MSE Parent Club

SeptemberBaby_2

Thanks everyone! National Statistics Top 100 Boys List has been my bedtime reading since Tues. Its sooooo difficult choosing!

Welcome to the other side, bethom! Hope you and Gracie are doing well x

Hope you had a lovely holiday, Dormouse! x

Was there a price glitch for the Leapfrog cube in 2007?! :rotfl::rotfl:

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And in 2006, it was the first toy DH bought Jack as his "birth present" from Daddy.

Chocoholic I know what you mean with the stop starting cube sides, I remember this with Jack and now I need to get it out for Molly, i'd forgotten its in her toy box.

I'm starting to get quite stressed with Molly's eating and I'm getting conflicting opinions (which is my fault for asking various people). She will eat my mash but if I try to put anything in it then she refuses. Her diet is still baby rice and sweet jars. I feel I have pureed so much in the last few days to try anything/any combination and its still no.

One person suggested cutting food out altogether and starting again at 6 months. I wont do this as her tummy is used to 3 meals a day and she will take about 3/4 of a jar now, so that is mean.

Another suggested just giving her baby rice 3 times a day, but I think she will bore of that quite quickly and in some way at least she is getting some fruit in her.

Another said just go with the flow eventually she will want to try new things, but I am worried that if I do this she will be dependant on the texture of manufactured baby food and the habit will be even harder to break later on, when she is bigger and stroppier and its gone on for longer.

So I really don't have a plan and i'm upset, I don't like not knowing what my next move is. HV said to try alternating a spoon of jar fruit then a spoon of my food, so she still has the taste of the previous mouthful. Worked for a bit, but she's cottoned on.

Had a disasterous tea time and I did lose my rag, was struggling to get Molly to eat my food, so had given up and gone to jar. Jack had seen Molly had different to him and was pointing to her food, I said No its baby food, you won't like it. He got stroppy and wouldn't eat any more of his and to show him what I meant I dabbed my finger in her food and offered it to him. He declined and didn't eat anything further than his 4 mouthfuls. So he had a strop in the garden whilst Molly projectile vomited most of her stomach contents over me, her and the highchair. (I was not amused). Its been a really rubbish evening since.

I have said to DH I totally refuse to puree Jack's food, he'll have to eat up or go hungry. Also think Jack may want me to spoon feed him a bit as Molly is getting more attention at mealtimes, but don't really want to go back to that either, I don't mind helping a bit, but not a meal.

Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do? I also refuse to feed them seperately as I want my children to eat together.

Feeling quite stressed this evening and really tired. today has been a crap day, full of tamtrums and playing up and whinging, crying children. Why didn't I keep my nightie on...............

tsstss7

Bailey ((hugs)) try not to put so much pressure on yourself - you have two children under two and thats hard work!! Molly WILL take your food eventually - she is probably just stuck for the moment. At that age my LO (weaned at 17 wks like molly) was eating 3 meals a day but by no means a "balanced diet" he now eats for england and had mackeral and avocado yesterday and rarely turns his nose up at any sort of food...(typically he loves chips!!)

Anyway just in case it helps at mollys age I tended to do baby rice or oats for breakfast, savory jar followed by fruit puree for lunch (which progressed to my home made savories at about 5 1/2mths) and a mashed banana, or pear for tea. Archie started on bits at 6 mths and that's when I started to make his foods more as the second stage jars are a bit boring and all seem to be something with pasta (I only use hipp as I like to use organic only for baby) so if she is anything like archie it's unlikey that molly will be stuck on to jar food forever - specially as her brother will be eating soo much more interesting food than her.

Anyway hope tomorrow is better for you. xx. :0)

Becles

*hugs* bailey.

You're not alone. We all have bad days with little ones. Charlotte is teething, and she woke up in a foul mood yesterday afternoon. I had a right battle to change her nappy, then I brought her downstairs to see her Dad but she just screamed and wouldn't have anything to do with him (she's normally a Daddy's girl!). Went and sat on the sofa with her and she was just screaming and thrashing about, then she pulled my hair hard so I told her off and sat her on the floor for a minute as time out. During the minute my 9 year old son came in and she was all over him with kisses and smiles. It made me feel really crap!

When I weaned my eldest son, he would happily eat fruit purees but he wouldn't touch veg. This sounds yukky but I ended up mixing fruit and veg together. Start with sweeter root veg and say do 25% carrot and 75% apple, then make it 50/50 and so on, until she's eating root veg on it's own. Then do the same to bring in green veg, then potato, then pasta, then meat etc. It took a while but it did work. He's 11 now, eats anything and has a massive appetite!

Hope you have a better day today.

Charlotte looks really odd at the moment. My Dad was looking after her and she tripped and bumped her head off the coffee table, so she's got a lovely purple and blue black eye now. She's teething and she's woken up with a very rosy pink cheek this morning on the same side as the black eye. From that side she looks like a pantomime dame :rotfl:

daphne_descends

Oh Bailey you poor thing :grouphug:

You can tell me sod off if you like, I only have one baby so what do I know - but it sounds to me like you need to pick your battles - can you ease up and go with the flow for a bit for an easier life? I admire your stand to have things done as you want them but if it's not happening - well, surely something has to give...

Instead of cutting out food altogether why not replace one or two of Molly's meals with milk - I started weaning at 5.5 months - Elliot is now 9.5 months and still not on 3 meals a day. They all get there in the end I'm sure! Will it really be the end of the world if Jack does have baby food for a meal or two - if it actually gets him to eat it so you can concentrate on Molly? He might dislike it but at least it would remove the appeal and 'mystery' of it and then he might stop asking?

Failing that, why not feed them separately just for a little while until everything else calms down? It's lovely that you want them to eat together but if it just becomes a battleground I can't see what the gain is from this?

Like I say you can tell me to mind my own but it sounds like you need to do something that works for all of you, even if it is not the most ideal situation - it will only ever be a phase!

honeybe21

haven been on here for what seems like ages.
im officailly a baby wearing convert i love it im hooked on wraps ringslings and mie tei's. thought my mums convinced il make him mard i dont care i lvoe having him close and still being able do housework etc while feeding him.
granted theres funny looks when we go into town and hes all snuggled in lots of fabric but most people think he looks really comfy.

bethom

Thankyou for the warm welcome everyone, and hope you and all your families are well! We are all doing really well here and it is hardly like we have a baby in the house at the moment, well apart from when she is starving and don't we know about it then! :rotfl:I can't believe in 3 days time she will be 4 weeks old old! It has gone by so quickly already! :eek:

So while I have a quiet moment I am gonna investigate school uniform, because with time flying this quickly it will soon be time for Thomas to go back to school! :eek:

Js_Other_Half

honeybe21 wrote: »

. thought my mums convinced il make him mard i dont care i lvoe having him close and still being able do housework etc while feeding him.
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I had DS on my back for 4 hours last weekend at an agricultural show. I also have a hip panda (a hip sling) for quick out and about trips. He is a very sociable child, always smiling at people and making eye contact - he is certainly not mardy:D

I am not against prams and buggies - but sometimes they're more hassle than their worth.

tsstss7

honeybe - I do envy you my boy was so big at birth and I'd had a cs so I found the sling hurt and ended upsticking to the old fashioned pram..then just got out of the habit of trying. Have since gone away and used a shawl as a makeshift sling for my 9 mth old and both me, OH and LO loved it although even OH could only carry for a short time (lo is the size of an average 12-18mth old now so still fairly big.)

We've been out doing the school uniform run too this week....and success we found shoes to fit. Last year ds1 had to wear his old shoes until we found ones to fit as he has very wide feet but narrow heels and shoes tend to slip. So one happy mum here:j I've decided to put the new shoes by until the end of August rather than let him wear them in case he has another growth spurt...just hope that under those circumstances they would let us do a swap as they were pretty expensive.

Becles

bethom wrote: »

So while I have a quiet moment I am gonna investigate school uniform, because with time flying this quickly it will soon be time for Thomas to go back to school! :eek:

Have a look in Tesco. They currently have 3 for 2 on all school uniform :money:

Bought all of ours there apart from blue shirts as none of my local stores stock them. Been all over the place trying to get short sleeved blue shirts but as usual it's a nightmare trying to get hold of the things!

Was working in M&S on Friday and noticed they had blue shirts, but when I checked the display, they had none in the sizes I wanted. Asked a lady and she said they just get allocated a random batch, so she didn't know when they would get more sizes in. She did say to go online as they currently have a free delivery offer if you spend over £30, so I ordered the shirts and a couple of other bits to get the free delivery. They were dispatched on Friday, so hopefully they'll arrive early next week and I can stop worrying