Studymum, I am so glad you and your family are safe and well. The devastation seems amazing, it's hard to comprehend.
I gave DD scrambled egg yolks this morning. A gf told me to grate them up and put them with her other food but I didn't want to hide them if that makes sense so she got scrambled egg yolks (I added a bit of EBM) and she seemed to like them. Not sure how much she actually ate but she would have eaten some. I really hope she isn't allergic because I want to start making quiches etc etc.
Yes, the food was very welcomed. We did another big food drop today. One lady gave me a big muddy hug and cried, saying she hasn't tasted bread since the beginning of the week and it was the most amazing thing she has eaten ever.
I also loved seeing the good old aussie bbq's out in force. They had been pulled out onto the street everywhere and they had the good old QLD sausage sizzles a happening.
I do also have to say what I thought I saw yesterday was bad, but today we were closer to the river, maybe only 500m, and it was far far worse. The mud was as deep as the square gutters (which were gone) all over the road , and no where can you even see grass, let alone most scrubs and small plants. It coated everything in sight to at least a metre high. The house my cousins were working on was a friends of theirs, and I know there family a bit through my own family's events etc. The woman said that she doesn't know what looks worse, the inside or the outside, and judging by the amount of mud outside, I couldn't fathom that amount that would have been inside then. They may just have to demolish the house. The entire street was pretty much the same. I got home an cried, the pain in her eyes was deep, but she just kept saying she will be okay, its just stuff, although I knew it cut a little more than that. Tomorrow we are not allowed in with food drops, as they are blocking off the streets to allow the dump trucks to move in and pick up the rubbish, so the guys will just have to carry the eskies in on the buses. So we are going into Ipswich to help St Vinnies sort through the mounds of generous donations.
And OMG DD2 ate the biggest dinner ever. She had 2 scrambled eggs, and a piece of toast, half a banana, and half a plum, she just kept asking for more. Than an hour later had a huge bf. And all she did all day was eat apparently. Guess she is heading for her 1 year growth spurt, and has decided increasing food is the way to go this time, not increasing bf's.
I just wrote a long post and then lost it. poo poo. hope i can remember it
MamaSue, i have been thinking about you and your little one lately and have a couple of thoughts i'd like to share.
I think that most of the time our little people know what they need. i am trying to remember this and respect it when my little one paints with her food or drops it for the dogs. i know your bubba girl has had some tummy issues with reflux and food sensitvities, is it possible that her system is not fully ready for bulk lots of solid food and that's why she is taking it slowly?
Even when i was very young i had an eversion to meat, especially red meat, and became a vegie when i was 12. It was only as an adult that i was diagnosed with a metabolic condition (i had symptoms since i was a child) and found out that high protein is not that good for me. I wonder whether as a little kid, i just worked out that meat didn't make me feel good and that's why i didn't like eating it.
My other thought (and i hope this comes out the way its intended) is maybe you need to give yourself a break. Doing 3 meals plus snacks every day for a bub that's not really into it is a massive effort. Her hand skills are impressive, and that is a credit to all the opportunities you have given her. Giving yourself permission to skip preparing a meal or just offering bub food from your plate is ok. I know when i was trying to get my little one to take EBM it was getting frustrating and tiring after awhile and i kinda lost the reason that i was trying to do it. After taking a break, and letting the pressure off, i'm not so stressed about it now and am ready to try again.
I think culturally we can put a lot of timelines/deadlines on ourselves but our babies have their own timelines and it is trying to merge the two smoothly that is my goal.
And now to me, we went to a wedding yesterday and the people were really impressed with my LO's eating ability and enjoyment of vegies. It was a buffet and there were vegie skewers and salads, so she had some zucchini, mushroom, potato, tomato, capsicum, lemon!, tofu. She had a good chew and then alot ended up on the floor or in her chair but she looked like she was eating it, and she had fun. I had to quickly eat my rockyroad cos she was eyeing that off. She had a couple licks from my ice cream in a cone too, and was peed off when it was finished! She is such a party animal, which is good on occasions like these. Eventually i got her to sleep and had her in the Ergo. She slept on the way home (even sleeping through when we hit a kangaroo in our car on the way home), had a quick feed when we got home around 2 and then slept in her cot until 6 this morning! (this is a big thing for us). Another BF then back to sleep
Kate, thanks for your thoughts on this. You're right about it all.
DD does know what she wants and needs, and yes, she does have amazing skills, I think that she is also using those skills to make sure she isn't eating anything that is going to make her feel dodgy.
I also do need to give myself a break about this. She'll do it when she's ready. I've already cut out the snacks for now, we're just doing B, L, D at the moment. I felt like we were never out of the kitchen and didn't want her to sense my frustrations.
I am not pushing her to do anything that she doesn't want to. I keep reading the BLW book too just to reassure and remind myself why we're doing it this way - and of course venting to you guys. DH isn't worried about her eating, and I should just get on board with him too - he's way more relaxed about a lot of things than I am. Worry wart, that's me.
Wow, your DDs sleep - that IS huge! Awesome work for little Energiser Bunny!! xxxx
My DD is 9 months old (nearly 10!) and we are doing BLS. We didnt plan on it... I just have a very stubborn, independant little girl who flat out refuses anything she doesnt feed herself
MummaSue - We are pretty much in the same boat. Tiah is offerred B, L , D and pretty much spends most of her time throwing things or mushing them into her nappy.
At this point she will eat Toast with vegemite or crushed baked beans or cottage cheese/tofu mix spread onto it. Or Strawberries .... even walking past the strawberries at woolies will start her on the "mmmmm yum yum" haha. She flat out refuses any meat or chicken or fish.
I am the only one in my mothers group offerring anything but purees at this point. They were shocked I let Tiah eat curried egg sandwiches and offerred her some homemade pizza...
Hi Meercat - what a clever little girl you have there wanting to do BLS I have to admit I love the shock factor of the BLS but last week, being the first week of daycare I did try and tone down her morning tea just so she wasn't ridiculed - hahhaha.
Speaking of morning tea......any suggestions? We aren't giving DD gluten yet as I am intolerant so she is having gluten free foods like me. On the whole it's not a big issue as it's really only bread that's a pain and we buy GF bread (when it is available.) We do rice puffs, dried fruit, real fruit, yoghurt, cottage cheese, rice crackers with cheese and other various toppings and toast but the GF toast crumbles pretty easily so it's not that big of a winner.
I would REALLY like to make her quiche and I gave her egg yolks last weekend and she went fine but what's the go with egg whites? If I cook a quiche and the egg whites are fully cooked, does that mean they are still high allergen? Guess there is only one way to find out................
Tried DD on fish on the weekend too, she loved it but I steamed it and it went crumbly and at the moment she is better with non crumbly things that she can get into her mouth easily.
Hi Meercat Your mothers group would be shocked at what we let DD2 eat, the other night she tucked in thai green curry with us, and loved it. I was a bit worried about no 2's the next day but they were fine.
DD2 actually had pizza for the first time last night, she was doing her happy little eating dance which means she really really enjoys it. I mean, who doesn't love pizza.
Starangelk, Ive actually got 3 friends, and one friend has 3 out of 4 of her kids with coeliac. Funny thing is 2 of them are identical twin girls, one has been diagnosed and the other still hasn't triggered. She has to let the one who hasn't eat at least one serve of gluten a day, the specialist said until she is shows signs and is diagnosed its best for her body to have an intake so her system learns to digest gluten, and then they can also tell when her symptoms appear to. Cause they don't know when it will, they said it could be years and years, so in the mean time she can happily eat it whenever she wants. Funny thing isn't it, considering they are genetically identical. I'm actually decorating one friends gf birthday cake this week, my first attempt at gf mud, fingers crossed.
You could always do vege stick and dip for morning tea too. Pushing carrot sticks through hommus is a hit at the moment, but I think more for the fun factor. And no matter how egg is cooked, it is still high allergen. Egg white is the most common part, but some people are allergic to the yolk as well. Cooking the egg white damages some proteins but most stay. If an allergy doesn't run in the family, the risks are lower, but its safest to keep an eye on them the first few times they have it, as its not always the first time that there is a reaction. OMG its amazing that doing a stupid assignment on eggs in high school stays in your memory.
We had chicken, vege and coucous for dinner tonight. It was hilarious watching DD2 trying to work out how to get it in her mouth with her fingers, she gave up and bent over and started hoovering it off her highchair
Ooooh thanks Studymum, that's fantastic! Veggie sticks and hommus, DD already loves hommus so that sounds like a great idea.
It's so cute when they "hoover" isn't it - LOL
That's really interesting about your friend with the identical twins. I am in 2 minds about the whole no gluten until 12 months thing because partly I want her to develop a small tolerance even if she isn't good with gluten but have decided to follow the peads advice about it because I'll be going back to see him if there is a problem. Plus, it's easy because I have all GF stuff anyway and she pretty much just wants to eat what I eat. It's like a diet for me really, I only get about 3/4 of all my food these days!!
Hi ladies - we are just starting the BLS adventure DD is almost 6 months old. I had been giving her some mashed sweet potato over the last few days, and she was loving it and hoovering it up - but then my BLS book arrived in the mail (finally) and I realised that BLS was the way I want to go.
Tonight she had a 'gum' on some cucumber and carrot sticks - she loved the cucumber. Now I just have to work out what to start her on for each 'meal'. Would love ideas on what you ladies started out with eg B, L, D ideas.
Hi Mrs P You'll probably find that your DD will probably only be interested in the actual eating of one meal a day to begin with. Not to say you don't have to offer food the rest of the times you are eating, its probably just not worth the effort into preparing something, just give them what you are having. You may notice a particular meal that she is more interested in than other, so start with this one.
DD2 it was dinner, so we just gave her steamed vegies, starting with ones with good handles, like brocolli, cauliflower and carrot. Then moving onto the harder to hold ones. We didn't give her pieces at a time, just put them on her tray at once and let her go. When she slowly became more interested in other meals I would give fruit during the day, and toast or porridge for breakfast. She let us know when she wanted solids more and more, otherwise I would just take stuff of my plate and let her play. Since she was about 10 months she has had exactly what I have everyday, so breakfast could be anything from porridge, toast, yoghurt and muslie. Lunch is tuna/ham/chicken/salad sandwiches or wraps, open grills. Dinner is literally anything we are eating.
Just follow the guidelines for allergenic foods and apart from that let her go. As the theory goes, if she can get it in her own mouth, she is capable of chewing it. The joy of BLS, no restrictions.
Hi Mrs P and welcome to this superfun and fabulous world of BLS. Studymum has given you wonderful advice. We did everything studymum did and we found that DD is most interested in food at breakfast. I think this is because she is hungriest and also the most awake. Dinner is her worst meal but she still had a good go. I still find myself running back to the book every now and again, it's wonderful. Also - we started DD on spinach leaves and she seemed to love these.
The ladies at daycare commented on what a good eater DD is! Yay!! It's really my first (outside my family) comment about the food thing. DD is one of the youngest in her group too so yay for BLS.
Thanks for the welcome ladies it's only been a couple of days but I'm loving bls already! Had my first panic when DD gagged on some carrot but she just spat it out after a couple of seconds. Phew.
Just wondering with things like carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato - how much should I cook them? Should DD be able to smoosh it in her mouth so it breaks up fairly easily? The carrots I did I think were too hard as when she broke some off it was a big chunk rather than something she could swallow.
Had dinner with the inlaws yesterday and was expecting some opposition to bls but surprisingly didn't get it! SIL was really interested and thought it was great. Yay
Mrs P, to begin with we steamed the vege much softer than we would for ourselves. I tended to leave it in for another 5 minutes, just so it was at the point it didn't fall apart when she picked it up, but easily mashed, like if you press it is mushes.
I thought DD2 had a growth spurt a couple of week ago, cause she increased her bf's, but the last 2 days, omg all she has done is eat solids, and sleep huge amounts, like 3 hours in the morning and 1 in the arvo on top of her usual 13hrs at night. She has polished off a massive bowl for dinner both nights and eaten a big breakkie and lunch plus 2 snacks during the day.
When they say it really comes together completely by 1 they really mean it. She turns one at the end of the week, and is completely in control of what she wants to eat and when. Her appetite has grown huge and can eat absolutely anything she wants. Last night she completely ate a whole bowl of moroccan lasagne, it made a huge saucy mess but absolutely all the food was down the hatch, and tonight she had a huge bowl of vege and steamed fish. She can even eat corn off the cob better than my 2 1/2 year old, every single little corn kernal is gone. People are gobsmacked to watch her eat, her fingers are nimble and quick (she can even pick rice up now without much of a mess), and she knows exactly what she is eating, and yes she does remove some stuff she does not like, which she does time and time again, like lettuce and potato.
So to everyone who has started and/or second guesses their choices of the BLS process, I'm glad to confirm its been worth it in the long run for us. I'd second guessed the whole process a couple of times, she she did not seem interested or actually eating much. Compared with DD1, who was done the 'typical' way, DD2 is far more advanced and willing for her age. She is leaps and bounds ahead of her friends her own age, most of whom are still on lumpy mash.
MIL asked what are we having for her birthday dinner, I said her favourite, curried sausages and was met with a, hehe I love getting that response.
Ah.. The ' you have no idea what your doing' look.. i just want to fill them with facts..
Maybe there is fact sheets we can get online to pass on to people?
Today we gave Harlee raspberries.. Sooo cute! But very messy. She does Not allow anything to go into her mouth before she holds it herself and looks at it first. I had some very ripe avocado the other day so I put it on my finger for her to eat off. She grabbed hold of my finger with one hand and pulled her head back to look at it. Then with her other hand Harlee picked the mush off my finger and put it in hey mouth by herself I'm so proud of her
We are tring to do lots more savoury food and lets of the sweet fruits, so she doesn't get a taste for sweets like her mum Homus wa a hit, and we also gave her some home made falafel.. She loved it! But she was very gassy the next couple of days! Woops!
Today DD had avocado on cruskits and cucumber for lunch. Having so much fun - bought a heap of different fruits to try, which is good and will help me eat more fruit too. It's so great to sit down as a family of 3 and eat dinner together
Seems a bit quiet in this thread at the moment! I am slowly reading the previous thread to get ideas etc but had a few questions/comments so thought I'd post away
- Last night DD got some nectarine, mostly the skin, stuck on the roof of her mouth and we had to get it out - ended up with her screaming but we calmed her down and she had more food after that. The DH found a piece of skin stuck again after she had finished dinner, so he had to get that piece out again. Should we be peeling the nectarines and other fruit?
- Has anyone noticed an allergy to cucumber? DD loves it but came out in a rash on her tummy and legs a few days after we started BLS. I think the rash was due to her lying on a scratchy towel, but as cucumber was the only food she had eaten every day I cut it out - a few days later rash was gone. I think it was co-incidence though and due to the towel. I guess the only way to know is to give her some to eat again!
- What foods do you take when out and about - what is less messy??
- What about eating out in cafes etc? We are going to Sydney for Easter and will be eating out a lot - I am picturing DD throwing food all over carpeted floors etc!
So - DD is loving BLS and so are we. She had some spaghetti pasta bake this week and absolutely loved it, was splurping up the pasta, so cute to watch. We used the fatter spaghetti with a hole in the middle and she was able to pick it up quite easily.
Hi all just got reccomended to check out this thread.
What age do you generally start BLS??
My DS is 6 months and I started him on pureed solids about a month ago but now hes decided that its more fun to blow raspberries and spit it at me everytime I put the spoon to his mouth. What finger foods can be introduced at this age, if any??
One of the things they said was they need food deliveries so you're doing a great thing.
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Your mothers group would be shocked at what we let DD2 eat, the other night she tucked in thai green curry with us, and loved it. I was a bit worried about no 2's the next day but they were fine.
which means she really really enjoys it. I mean, who doesn't love pizza.
, hehe I love getting that response.
I'm so proud of her
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