MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

turtlemoose

katiechoc have sent you a pm x

Hmm Reuben must be a tidy eater then? I thought he was quite messy, obviously not LOL

Gillyx

We get mashed potato in ears and hair here, he thinks its hilarious!

turtlemoose

oh gosh, no ear or hair food here. he did put yoghurt in his eye once but hes a bit better with a spooon now, still no expert by any means but it at least hits the lower half of his face!

He has JUST FALLEN ASLEEP ON MY LAP. This never happens, I boob him to sleep every nap and every night. !!!!!!?! My baby is confusing me the last few days, and sleep deprivation + confusion = not good!

bless him he looks really gormless with his mouth open and a load of dribble coming out, ahhh i'm so mean!

*Nutella*

So, I've been on my first ever trip to Aldi! It's a 15-minute walk from my house and I've walked past it hundreds of times, but this time I actually went in, tempted by nappies and alcohol First impression: Katie, I can totally see why you'd intend to get fruit and veg and end up with a trolley full of chocolate. I managed to restrict myself to a carrot and oat loaf cake, which is so yummy I've already eaten half of it, and a packet of biscuits. Oh, and bananas and a bag of rocket, just to balance things out a bit I'd never be able to do all my food shopping there; there are too many things I eat that they don't have, but for the odd top-up for basics: not bad!

Very impressed by the price of the nappies, but to be honest I'm not 100% sure about the quality - they feel a bit papery, and not as soft as Pampers. But maybe I'll get used to them; we'd save £10-15 a month by switching, and the girl actually wearing said nappies doesn't seem to mind - she did a huge poo within minutes of putting one on Oh, and I like the giraffe at the back - very cool

The Ballycastle will be tested tonight

turtlemoose

nutella the super 6 are always good - 6 fruit or veg for either 69p or 39 p each, different ones each week.

Hope you get on ok with the nappies - have to say we love them here, no problems, least leaky we've tried and no funky smell. And cool animals, including the handy back-of-giraffe to let you know which is the back of the nappy

BLW-ing ladies, when you need to use milk in a recipe, do you use breastmilk, formula or blue top milk? Can you tell me why you made your choice? I've only ever used BM when making him porridge, but I slipped up the other day, I had mashed potato for dinner (with cow's milk, green top, and cheese in it) and I totally forgot and Reuben ate quite a bit.

Am now wondering if this could have been the cause of the horrific green nappies I've had for the last two days?

Gillyx

They say 6 months + for blue top cows milk in cooking, but if they re-act go back to formula/BM.

I use Non dairy milk in all my cooking but that's because I have to. xx

katiechoc_2

For the last week I've been using blue top for his porridge, and I was dribbling a bit on weetabix for him but it turns out he prefers it dry. No adverse reactions as yet. He's gobbled down three quarters of a jacket spud tonight (it was a teensy one but still good going!) and I let him deal with the skin this time. Fingers crossed all that spud will keep him asleep a bit better tonight, I've been offering boob more often too, try and keep him topped up. Only problem with that is if he's not really hungry he tends to have a sly chomp. I swear those teeth are getting sharper!

katiechoc_2

Oh and reason behind blue top rather than BM - too lazy to be messing about with the pump all the time and I never got the hang of hand expressing.

mozzyc

Hello lovely ladies!!!!

I still feed Charlie, only give him the spoon to play with. Bad mummy!! Might try him in the kitchen where the mess can be cleaned lol x

*Nutella*

Turtle, I use blue top too for things like porridge. When we started weaning at 23 weeks I used formula, but switched to cow's milk a couple of weeks ago with no adverse reaction. She's also had cheddar, ricotta, cottage cheese and plenty of yoghurt, so definitely no dairy intolerance here. In terms of why - I thought she was old enough at six and a half months to start getting used to cow's milk - plus, sometimes I eat some of her food too and formula tastes vile...

Katie, fingers crossed for sleep tonight - that's good going on the potato front! I think we're in for another messy night - she's got a cold and is struggling to sleep and keeps coughing and then the dummy falls out...