MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

DayDreamBeliever_2

Hi ladies, hoping to pick your brains on weaning as my return to work is fast approaching and if I was confident lil miss was eating enough it would be one worry I could cross off my ridiculously long list.

She's eating 12g of porridge for breakfast made with full fat milk and has 2 tablespoons of whatever fruit I've pureed mixed through it along with just over half a banana (some days she has toast or eggy bread but usually porridge). Dinner is usually meat or cheese with pepper, cucumber, tomatoes followed by fruit - each 'portion' is roughly the size of a match box. Tea is whatever we're having but again the matchbox size portions so one matchbox of protein, one of carbs, two of veg plus fruit for pudding. And she has snacks of a rice cake or a few of the organix tomato/carrot crisp type things or a couple of biscotti biscuits.
Now my concern is she will now at last take some milk from her cup but at most it's 2oz at a time, I can express 6oz in a go so if I expressed the night before and fed her before I left for work and left the 6oz to be spread across the day would she be getting enough 'food' on the days I'll be working that bit later that sees me not arriving home before she has tea?

I hope that makes sense, i'm finding everything and anything to worry about when the time comes to return to work it's getting ridiculous lol.

*Nutella*

Morning ladies

Just wanted to share a recipe I've just made for raspberry oat cakes. It took five minutes to make, cooled down in the time it took me to change a nappy, and most importantly LO loved it It's just a fancy version of porridge fingers, but so yummy I want to make another one for me to eat! I happened to have frozen raspberries, but I'm planning to experiment with other berries as well as dried fruit like raisins or apricots. Would definitely recommend! For a hungry/greedy baby like mine, this quantity was a perfect sized snack - for breakfast I'd double it.

DDB, if she seems happy and is growing, putting on weight, has plenty of wet and dirty nappies (all the usual stuff!), then I'm sure she's eating enough. But if you're wondering if this new arrangement will work, why not try it out at home for a few days? In preparing LO for nursery, I got a copy of their routine, and adapted ours to that. So I gave her food at the times she'd be eating at the nursery, and for us at the time it also meant replacing a bottle of milk with a mid-morning snack. Seeing that she was fine with that made me feel confident she'd be OK!

Must get some work done - have a good day all x

DayDreamBeliever_2

Oh, thanks for the link nutella will have a go at those this afternoon - they look lovely!
She's doing all those things, at a crazy rate atm but she's on and off my boob all day as well as eating really well and is taking far more then the 6oz over the day which is why I worry but until we try it I guess we'll never know lol, have a stock pile of expressed milk in the freezer so some can always be defrosted if she needs/wants more when I'm not here.

DayDreamBeliever_2

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Oatcakes made and currently being munched nutella - my oh ate the other one I made but he wouldn't let me take a picture

Mrshaworth2b

Aww she's beautiful ddb

*Nutella*

Isn't it incredible how someone so small can create so much chaos? The living room looks like it's been hit by a tornado!

fluffnutter

*Nutella* wrote: »

Isn't it incredible how someone so small can create so much chaos? The living room looks like it's been hit by a tornado!

I like to have one baby-free room. That way, even if I'm too exhausted to clean up at the end of the day I can go and sit somewhere and pretend I don't actually have a baby. Very good for your sanity

*Nutella*

fluffnutter wrote: »

I like to have one baby-free room.

Our only baby-free room is the toilet! But we have a huge toy box in the living room as well as a box for her books, and the playmat gets folded away every evening, so once everything's put away it all looks fairly civilised. Tidying up is now part of our bedtime routine - she enjoys dropping Duplo bricks into their box one by one...

*Nutella*

DDB, pleased to see/hear that the oat cakes were enjoyed by all the family!

sunshine_1988

Hello ladies

Gorge pics fluff and ddb

It was my little boys sports day at nursery today! He was so sweet he did a tiny little running race and then sat ever so well on the mats and watched the bigger ones. They had a magician too and some buffett food, I really enjoyed it

Hope everyone is well, will try those oatcakes out on Friday Nutella thanks.

xxxxx