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Mrshaworth2b

What age was your lo when you went back to work Nutella? Mines just over 7 months, I suppose I should be grateful that I'm missing only like a hour of his day, wish I could be a stay at home mum though.

*Nutella*

Mrshaworth2b wrote: »

What age was your lo when you went back to work Nutella? Mines just over 7 months, I suppose I should be grateful that I'm missing only like a hour of his day, wish I could be a stay at home mum though.

She was eight and a half months and I went back full time

IHateDida

Can I ask when you know baby is ready for weaning....I'm not going down the baby led route I think....

LO is now nearly 18 weeks and is sucking her hands quite a lot and today I gave her calpol for a cold and she couldn't wait for it - whereas when she was stung by a wasp and we gave her some at 10 weeks - she spat it all out - I am wondering whether this means that she is keen for other tastes??! She is being bottle fed and I wake her up for an 11pm feed so she isn't hungry but she is starting to play with her milk during the day - spitting it out and then drinking some, spitting out again etc... - she won't drink the recommended amount on the formula box - so isn't particularly a hungry baby....

I don't want to start her too early but how do you know when its time to start the baby rice?

Thank you!:)

p.s. I don't want to go back to work either.....I did the lottery tonight in the hope! LOL!

katiechoc_2

Evening ladies, good to see its a bit more active on here today!

Quiet day for us, George has been good - apart from just before bedtime when I glanced round to see him on the fourth step up the ladder into the loft :eek: I knew he could do the ladders on little slides etc, but this is a proper grown up ladder!

I think re going back to work its often a case of the grass-is-always-greener. I'm a WAHM (freelance so sometimes I go a week or two with none at all, others I don't stop for a month) and I know how lucky I am to be able to still have my career, and spend every minute with LO. But sometimes, especially recently when he's been having a super stroppy day, I wouldn't mind having an hour or two in a quiet office with grown up conversation and no fingers trying to tip my cup of tea all over my legs! But then the thought of leaving him with someone else for the majority of the day/week makes me feel sick. I also worry that I'm not doing enough to stimulate him, ladies on here have posted about the nursery doing things they wouldn't be able to do at home so I think maybe he's missing out - I'm just never right, really - as a mum I think you're bound by nature to worry that whatever you're doing is wrong, thats what it feels like to me!

Anyway, that ramble doesn't really have much of a point, but seeing as I've just spent 10 minutes trying to formulate my jumble of a brain into actual sentences I'll post it anyway :D

Gillyx

Ihatedida the advice from the NHS website says this about signs of being solid ready.

They can stay in a sitting position and hold their head steady.
They can co-ordinate their eyes, hands and mouth so that they can look at the food, pick it up and put it in their mouth, all by themselves.
They can swallow food. Babies who are not ready will push their food back out, so they get more round their face than they do in their mouths.

And this about weaning myths.

chewing fists
waking in the night when they have previously slept through
wanting extra milk feeds.


The link is here http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/Pages/solid-foods-weaning.aspx#close

Baby rice IMO has no nutritional value really there are more calories etc in I milk, good first tastes are root veg, maybe on there own to start with so carrot, butternut squash, sweet potato and then mixing together, they're nice strong flavours and stuff I wouldn't mind eating, baby rice is like wallpaper paste, mmmm yummy! :rotfl:

P.s my LO never drank the 'recommended' milk amounts, my HV said they over estimate on the side of the carton to get you to make up bigger feeds and therefore use more milk if that helps at all xx

minimuffin12

My lo will be 8months when I go back to work in march, ill be doing 4 days 8-6pm. Ill see how it pans out but can cut down my hours if it doesnt work out. The nursery we want has a waiting list and im pretty sure we wont get in night all x

Bangton

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Thanks Nutella! !! Idiot that I am not putting myself in date order!

*Nutella*

Dear British Winter Time,

Please be aware that the clocks going back doesn't mean 'an hour of extra sleep' for everyone, despite the media hype. For some of us it means getting up in pitch black darkness at 5.30am. Little people don't necessarily share our appreciation of 'an hour's extra sleep'.

Just so you know.

Yours truly,
One Tired Mother

fluffnutter

Baby rice is rubbish. Even if you don't do baby-led weaning there are much better things to wean your baby onto. You can make your own purees with fruit and vegetables. The only thing I ever used rice for was to thicken soups so it made a bit less mess .

Annabel Karmel is good for non baby-led weaning and ideas about purees.

Claree__x

*Nutella* wrote: »

Dear British Winter Time,

Please be aware that the clocks going back doesn't mean 'an hour of extra sleep' for everyone, despite the media hype. For some of us it means getting up in pitch black darkness at 5.30am. Little people don't necessarily share our appreciation of 'an hour's extra sleep'.

Just so you know.

Yours truly,
One Tired Mother

THIS!

Eilis had her worst night in ages as well! Up at 1am and up again now, poor wee thing is all disorientated.