starting old style- tips?

katiesmummy

melie3 wrote: »

lol...
my dd is having 8oz 3 bottles a day. i doubt it would make him ill changing, they may all be the same who knows??? i think you need to do something though, not just financially, but he doesnt seem satisfied enough. does he sick any up? is he content for a good 4 hrs?

he does bring up a little bit sometimes but not a major amount. i think sometimes its cos he drinks it too fast lol. most of the time hes content for 4 hrs, but when he gets hold of a bottle he doesnt let go till hes polished off the whole lot. i had him weighed 2 weeks ago and he weighed 18lb!! and hes in 6-9 month clothes already as well. i call him my little chunky monkey!

melie3

katiesmummy wrote: »

he does bring up a little bit sometimes but not a major amount. i think sometimes its cos he drinks it too fast lol. most of the time hes content for 4 hrs, but when he gets hold of a bottle he doesnt let go till hes polished off the whole lot. i had him weighed 2 weeks ago and he weighed 18lb!! and hes in 6-9 month clothes already as well. i call him my little chunky monkey!

aww bless your monkey, he obviously needs all he is getting...ive not had any boys, 3 girls, but a lot of friends had boys and were more hungrier than my girls. if he had some rice, im sure you will notice him sleeping more at night.

katiesmummy

melie3 wrote: »

aww bless your monkey, he obviously needs all he is getting...ive not had any boys, 3 girls, but a lot of friends had boys and were more hungrier than my girls. if he had some rice, im sure you will notice him sleeping more at night.

have to admit, he is a lot hungrier than dd was & he just doesnt stop! well 7 days to go before i give him his first bit of baby rice.

sorry, gotta go, my dog has just broke wind- i need to get out of here before the fumes kill me! night, and thanks for the tips!

squeaky

This should help too...

Getting Started

Have a good read and a browse and remember that you don't have to do it all at once

moanymoany

nicifer_noonoo has started a thread with a recipe site. It has extensive baby food recipes - here's the link

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/baby/baby.html

The Tightwad Gazettes have lots of ideas about frugal baby raising. You will need to buy them, but they are cheap on Amazon, worth a look. Amy - Tightwad Gazette lady - has 6 children!

katiesmummy

moanymoany wrote: »

nicifer_noonoo has started a thread with a recipe site. It has extensive baby food recipes - here's the link

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/baby/baby.html

The Tightwad Gazettes have lots of ideas about frugal baby raising. You will need to buy them, but they are cheap on Amazon, worth a look. Amy - Tightwad Gazette lady - has 6 children!

wow, that site is great! i actually borrowed an annabel karmel (sp) book from the library in preparation for weaning- gonna take it back now!

sammy_kaye18

was just going to say

my little boy Ben was born weighing 9lb 7ozs and was on 6 ounce bottles when he came home and on 8 ounce bottles by the time he was 6weeks old, it seemed like i was forever feeding him. no matter what milk he was on i couldnt fill him up, i was on Cow and gate green , then blue, then purple. Then he hit a year old and i put him on full fat cows milk.

My nieces were both 6/7lb babies and ate 4/5ounces bottles up until about 4 months old. So maybe boys are hungrier.

Ben had his first taste of baby yoghurt at 3 and a half months, and his first meal of sloppy baby rice/sloppy rusk with baby milk at just under 4 months old (15weeks) and he has been fine, happy contented baby all the way through (and hes my first if that makes any difference) Hes now 3 and a half years old and taller than he should be, and perfectly proportioned.

Nappies - I tend to use tescos own in the nights as hes only in them then but he has been in them a while except for pampers when he was younger - up until about 4 months old.

Wipes - always used johnsons until he was about 6 months then switched to wilkos brand (the unperfumed ones)

baby food - always made myself unless was caught short when i was out with him

phizzimum

my best tip for starting old style living is to use up what you already have. It's very easy to get carried away when reading this board and think you have to invest in microfibre cloths, stardrops, breadmaker, tons of lentils! etc etc.

all these things are great in their own good time but don't buy new cleaning products if you've got loads to use up - and remember that lots of things can do double duty. A bottle of cheapy shampoo can be used as liquid soap, shower gel...and even to wash your hair with!

look at what food you have lurking in the cupboard/freezer and think about meals you can make from them.

it's worth buying a packet of own brand nappies to try out. when babies are tiny they get through so many nappies that even if you hate them they'll be all used up in a few days! Some local councils offer free/cheap starter packs of reusable nappies too. I know it's a big (and expensive initially) leap to start using cloth nappies, but if you can get one or two for free and use them as well as disposables, over the coming months it would save a few quid.

purpleivy

Trends vary. My DD is 17 and DS is 14. WHen they were young the advice was to not feed any solids until they were 12 weeks old. I gave in and gave dd a little sloppy rice at teatime at 11 weeks. She was still being breastfed at this time. She (and us!) slept better.

DS was difficult with breast/bottles/milk etc etc. I breast fed for a fortnight, expressed for him for another 3 weeks, formula till 9 weeks old (every type going!) and then gave him cow's milk (shock horror!) which he seemed to prefer..... and who can blame him? Have you tasted formula? At 11 weeks he started on the hard stuff (... and I mean solid food!) and then turned into a reasonable human being. He was such an unhappy little ***t before that!

DS would eat a range of packet food when absolutely necesssary. Neither would touch anything that came in a jar or tin, other than maybe the odd fruit puree. After 11 weeks I started to introduce them to home-produced food, fruit and veg puree etc, supplemented by plain babyrice.

In spite of their early starts on hard stuff, they have both always eaten really well and love their food. DD now veggie, eats a narrower range of stuff than ds, but does eat stuff when out 'to be polite'.

Curiously, the things they really don't like are the same as each other, but things that dh and I like.... melon, olives, avocado (we only like it in guacomole, HM of course!) .

DS had very mild eczema as a child cleared up completely. DD has mild hayfever. Both have very mild asthma.... but then DH and I both have hayfever and dh has mild asthma.

What I'm trying to say, is that you have to do what's right for your family. I expect if you have big allergy problems then there may be reasons that you need to stick to medical advice, but on the whole children are quite resilient.

katiesmummy

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

was just going to say

my little boy Ben was born weighing 9lb 7ozs and was on 6 ounce bottles when he came home and on 8 ounce bottles by the time he was 6weeks old, it seemed like i was forever feeding him. no matter what milk he was on i couldnt fill him up, i was on Cow and gate green , then blue, then purple. Then he hit a year old and i put him on full fat cows milk.

My nieces were both 6/7lb babies and ate 4/5ounces bottles up until about 4 months old. So maybe boys are hungrier.

he sounds just like my son! you know those bottles of milk that they give you at the hospital to feed your baby? cj was drinking a whole one of those every feed!!

i'm going to the drs with him today for his jabs so i think i will ask about switching milk brands and see what he says. my dr is really good, he doesnt hide behind loads of waffle about this that and the other. when i asked him about ds sleeping in my bed (midwife was horrified at this) he said that a huge amount of families in other countries had no choice but to bring their babies in their bed as they had nowhere to put them i.e. a cot, and if i'm comfortable with it then its fine as long as i dont put him under the duvet etc. even he admitted that its only recently that the nhs reccommends not weaning till 6 months and its a case of judgement on our part of when our kids are ready. he said that worse case reaction to me giving ds solids will either be he wont take it or he will throw it up, there are no big medical risks if you know what i mean