BG sorry I didn't reply to your very helpful input regarding solids. Unfortunately my diet is very bad, high in salt and fried stuff... if not that it would soupy stuff so not so good for Lyla. But she show such eagerness to eat food that are not mashed that now for dinner I generallty just cut up fruits or steamed vegs for her to munch on. She now recognises (or understand the word water vs food) food from drinks. She loves drinking but doesn't like certain food and I would often have to give her both, alternating so she would continue to eat. The other day DH was feeding her and after a few spoons she clamped her mouth shut and wouldn't have any more. He then said "water" and she automatically opened her mouth for daddy to pop in a spoonful of water. What DH doesn't know was she wouldn't understand conditional sentences so when he said "eat a spoon of this and daddy will give you some water" she opens her mouth expecting water but instead got a spoonful of food. She gave him such a look, which I interpreted to be "what the? Why did you deceive me?" DH got a no no from me.
BW - hope your little one feels better.
Kelly - wow Tara seems like a very strong girl...bet you she would be an early roller, crawler and walker as well.
Grub - no set routine but generally, Lyla would have her bottle at 5 pm, play, dinner at 7 follow by shower and then bed at 8 or 8:30ish with or without a bottle. I generally feed her more often even though I know she would not wake to ask for it, ie I dream feed her at 9 or 10ish pm and then again at 6 am (or else she wouldn't feed until 8 or 9am - if she is awake at 6am she would not feed, outright reject the bottle). She is one of those lazy feeders in the morning. She wouldn't have a decent feed until the afternoon. I would be lucky if she feed her normal full bottle (230ml) before 1pm. I tried once to wait until she ask for her bottle as well as dropping the dream feed at 9pm and she went for 13 hours without a feed. Now that she is eating solid I am not so worried about how much she feeds so I play it by ear...if she feeds well in the morning that I forgo the dreamfeed.
Poppy, I am so very proud of your efforts. I gave up after 3 weeks. I learnt my inability to express milk is not a reflection on my milk supply but by then it was too late, Lyla was so used to the bottle she outright refused to take my boobs. The other day, while playing she accidently pulled down my top and saw my breast. I waited to see what she would do. She leaned down and smell my nipple but other than that had no idea what it is or what it could have been. It made me cry for the wonderful thing we both missed out o, for the what could have been. I just thought, "these boobs could have been her world" but it was not meant to be.
Sorry really have to go to bed now. But just a quick report, Lyla is now walking! For the past 3 days she had attempted to walk around the play pen and cot, supporting herself on whatever she could hold onto, cot rails. Fell a fair few times but just kept at it.
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