Mumma Sue - I am really going to keep my fingers crossed for you hun. I have coeliac disease and was diagnosed as a baby. Back in those days it was much much more uncommon and hard to diagnose, especially as a child. We are being very careful with DD in case she also has it and have really only just started introducing gluten into her diet in the last couple of weeks. Please let us know how you go.............if your DD does have this, I have a heap of information I can share with you including recipes and tips. Xx

The whole weight thing is a worry isn't it. DH took DD to be weighed on Friday and it was her first real weigh in since 6 months. She's been growing well and chubbing up a bit and I guess we were procrastinating because we have a GF who's child was referred to a pead for weight issues and that probably freaked me a bit. So I was just weighing DD on our home scales and not worrying about the number as I realise that is not right but just making sure it went up. Anyway, she is 8.2kg at 11 months which is between the 10th - 25th percentile mark on the sheet. The MCHN said not to worry at all, DD looks fine and we are not large people so it's likely she will always be fairly petite. Plus her head and height are averageish and developmental milestones are good. So we were happy BUT I can't understand how gp's/mchn's decide which babies weight is a concern and which babies weight is not a concern................any ideas? Sorry, probably off topic there.

Back on topic. Over the weekend I started trying the fork and DD loved it. I have to load it for her (same as the spoon) but she has a really good idea of which end goes in her mouth with probably a 90% success rate. I was so proud of her. Her teeth have now cut through, I can feel them but she is still preferring soft and cooler foods which is fine. I am just giving her whatever she wants to eat at the moment while she isn't 100%. Yesterday for lunch I have her food and part of it was a piece of GF bread with pate on it and she licked the pate off and handed the bread back to me so she ended up having lots of pate for lunch. LOL. My DD with the expensive taste!! THen for dinner, my Dad brought over these fishcakes he had made with this lemon mayonaise dressing and she pretty much just licked the dressing off everything and loved it. So I fed her the dressing with a spoon instead of her yoghurt. Parenting fail? It's debatable..................the fail is the types of food she's eating but the win is despite her fussiness with her teeth, she IS eating.