Hi girls - thought I would drop in quickly while I have a chance.
Grub - hope you are having a wonderful holiday.
BW - teaching is such an important and challenging job. I so admire teachers - I used to teach ballet, and I can tell you it certainly made my respect for teachers go through the roof! Thanks for your advice re infection control. We will certainly be chucking Ms J in the shower as soon as we get her home from now on.
Smithy - hope the move is going well. Look forward to having you back soon!
Green - hope Linc is settling down a bit. Jazzy still has times even now that she goes through those clingy stages, but she has always been a bit like that.
Kelly - hope Tara is feeling better. It certainly sounds like a tummy bug to me.
BG - how is work going? Hope you are settling back into it okay.
Hi to Marcellus, Lenny and anyone I have missed.
AFU - I am pleased to report that I have a child who is 100% healthy (knock on wood - don't want to jinx myself). This operation and the medication are like a miracle. We had gotten so used to Jazzy being sick that it was starting to feel normal. It is only now that she is well that I can really look back and appreciate how sick she was and for how long! She managed 2 days at nursery this week. We kept her home with my DH on Wednesday as we just didn't feel she was quite ready, but she went on Thursday and Friday. She was very tired at the end of each day, but that is pretty much the norm when they are at nursery. She was a little teary at drop off but nothing too bad. And - oh my goodness - she is EATING!!! Her lack of eating was obviously related to her not feeling well. I thought she was still getting used to some foods prior to the operation, but it now appears that her lack of appetite was probably a result of the illness. When she was at nursery prior we were lucky if she had a taste of her lunch. Well I am proud to report that on both days at nursery this week she ate ALL of her lunch and ALL of her desert! So proud of her.
We are now down to 3 milk feeds a day (1 booby and 2 bottle). I am about to start weaning her off formula and onto cows milk - I was just waiting on her feeling better, so we may even start on that today. Can anyone whose baby is over a year old tell me if they are still using bottles or if they give the milk in a sippy cup? Jazzy has water from a sippy cup, but I am wondering if I should be starting to get her off the bottle for milk times also. Any advice on this change over would be hugely appreciated, it is all so confusing! She is also in the process of going down to 1 day sleep - some days she does only one, others (like today) she still needs the two.
Much love to all - and here is to a happy healthy little Jasmine!
Janie, Sam still has bottles for milk. He drinks water from a sippy cup and likes to play and pretend that he's drinking from our cups. He probably doesn't really need the bottle, but he still can't tolerate cows milk and it's so much easier to mix formula in a bottle rather than a sippy cup! It's such a relief to hear that your little girl is well again after so long!
Thought I would jump on while everyone is still sleeping.
Thanks for all your well wishes about Tara, and it appears she had a bit of a gastro bug but is now feeling much better. Only lasted for about 2 days so I'm happy that her little immune system could get rid of it so fast for her. So now we are back to trying to get our routine going again as her being sick pushed that one off the radar.
So far so good, although she has only started back on smaller amounts of solids again and it seems she has gone back a couple of steps as she only wants pureed mush again. I've tried her on vegies but she either gags on them or spits it all back out, so I'm resorting back to tins of savoury solids (horrible mummy) as they are quite pureed and watery and she is happy to eat them. Also her rice cereal and fruit in the morning has to also be runnier for her as well. I'm thinking she may have had some reflux burn when she vomited up and the mushier stuff is just going down better at the moment.
Not too much to worry about though as so long as she is eating and having wet nappies and more formed BM's I'm not complaining and we can always start back on the veggies in a week or so.
I hope you all enjoy your long weekend, I have my IL's here for a week but luckily DH has a weeks holidays as well so I don't have to entertain everyday.
KellyD glad Tara is on the mend, so scary when they're not well
Smithy and Family I know you're not reading just yet but for moving hope it all goes well
BW sam cuddles will fix any bad day.
Grub enjoy your holidays
Janie for healthy bub
ATM: Well Last night little man slept till 4am after a bit of a stir at 10am. He no longer will settle with the dummy popped back in I need to pick him up but usually only for 30seconds or so.
Work went great only 3 students. I'll have to prepare more for this week.
Hmmm what's on my mind the most is yesterday we went to a friends place to visit she has two little girls 3 and 9months, she kept going on about wanting more children etc. when they are broke now. but what really upset me (still) her 3year old got her phone and said "mummy call uncle" and she'd managed to unlock it. My friend slapped her full on over the face I have seen her hit her on the bum but this was a bit much I thought. DH and I have decided no smacking due to our parents hitting us etc. and I have never really got on my soap box about smacking but slapping across the face. I didn't know what to do. I know my face said it all cos DH walked in and came over and said what's wrong.
Oh Green, that is shocking, I wouldn't have known what to do either. It sounds as though she was just reacting rather than thinking about how to handle it. such a fine line isn't it? I'm doing child development in psych this semester and that is such a big no-no for so many reasons. Poor kid.
Kelly = sorry to hear about little Tara, and very glad she's on the mend.
Janie - thank goodness regarding little Jazzy and so glad that she is now so happy and healthy.
Grub- hope you're enjoying Tassie! Are you keeping up the running? You're looking pretty fine in your FB photos and it looks like the weight is dropping off. I'm managing about 5 - 7km twice a week...would love to do more but I just don't seem to get around to it.
BW - Hang in there, it sound slike you are doing a terrific job. It sure is challenging though, keep up the good work, and at least it is rewarding!
Hi Smithy, BG, marcellus, Lenny, Murph and anyone I have missed.
All ok here. I haven't made any move to leave and frankly don't want to....I know I may be forced to with the safety aspect, but I do love my husband and there will be a lot of damage if I go. I have been gently telling him about rental properties, either for all of us to go or me on my own. He seems reasonably receptive, although I don't think he will actually go, but he seems to understand that I need to keep Adam safe and I can't do it here. So if I can get him to gently come around to the idea that it is not safe, and that if Ieft it would not be "to leave" it will make him more amenable to doing something about it.
Still waiting to here back from a obsessive-compulsive hoarding expert at UNSW - I have just asked her to point me in the right direction for counselling in Sydney, both for me and DH.
Adam is well, started swimming last week which he loved. Solids going well, but I think I am lacking in imagination. They say no cow's milk until 12 months old, but in the next sentence say to add cheese and yoghurt? Aren't they cow's milk? So confused....
i think they say no cows milk as in straight cows milk (so no adding milk from the bottle to weetbix for breakfast - use the milk your baby uses for drinking - EBM or formula) - milk in yogurt and cheese has been processed significantly and is ok to use. are you planning on following BLS or are you going with purees?
we have gone the BLS path and have never had any dramas with foods for DD - for the first month or so of her being on solids, we stuck mostly to meat and veg for dinner - gave her the veg and let her munch away to her hearts content. i figured if she didn't get any down, she was still learning about food. after about a month, we started making more complex foods, and including her. vegies in sauces, fried rice etc. we started by making the sauces more subtle (spag with no added garlic or chilli, milder curries) and putting a lot of veg in there (completely normal for us anyway) and over a month or two, we got back to eating what we were eating before. DD is now almost 11 months (wow!) and eats everything and anything. she prefers food with stronger flavours (which is great, cos we do too!) and will happily eat whatever we're having for dinner. it has taken the "creativity" question out of it - she eats what we eat! snack wise we've had to look for foods that are a little more bubba friendly. where i might have crackers and cheese, i'd prefer she didn't have the biscuits due to the salt factor, so we got plain rice crackers for her. we make pancakes one a week for breakfast, and for a couple of days she has leftovers from the fridge - with a teensy scrape of butter and vegemite if she is looking for more flavour. yogurt and custard are fantastic snacks - we bought some of the baby custard powder (just add ebm or formula) and DD loves it - we then stew our own fruit (with no sugar - and chunks - you can't buy chunky fruit with no added sugar in the shops here!) and mix that through for variety for her. it's a fantastic afternoon snack if she lunches early (or we're having a later tea due to work) - or we use it as a meal replacement on the odd occassion that she is just too tired to wait on dinner (after work last week was a bit ordinary).
wow - that was a lot of waffle - can you tell E is sleeping still? lol
AFU - work was boring last week - on thurs mum had to go do some shopping in the town where i work so, because i was in training, i got her to drop E off and she came to work for a visit. meant no expressing (BLISS), E got to visit, trainer got to meet her - was really nice. i ended up voluntarily going on the phones in the arvo just to make time pass - was (and i think i will be!) soooo bored! i miss the interaction with E - she is as happy as larry with my mum taking care of her, it's me that is struggling!
Thanks BG, fantastic advice. That's pretty much what I thought re the yoghurt/cheese, so thanks for that. You've given me some great ideas. At the moment he is having rice cereal mixed with formula with home made apple or pear puree for brekkie and then trialling vegies in the afternoon (pureed, he can't seem to tolerate chunks yet). So far so good!
have you tried giving him fingers of vegies to try? you may find that his digestive system isn't ready for solids just yet, but by giving him fingers he is still experimenting and will take it in as he is ready for it. i know it took E a while to actually digest things - before that it was just playing and getting used to textures and flavours. at six months they don't really need solids - they can start on them and gradually increase the amount, but don't have to have a certain amount. just keep offering stuff til he takes it. i know it seems pointless to offer food over and over that they don't take in, but each thing is a step towards getting it all balanced out
E will now grab and eat raw capsicum straigh from the plant (and cracks when i take it off her to get the seeds off her!), eats celery raw, will pic individual peas and corn from the plate. we've let her take it at her own pace. she eats custards and things, but we let her feed herself - we just load the spoon for her
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for moving hope it all goes well
when they are broke now. but what really upset me (still) her 3year old got her phone and said "mummy call uncle" and she'd managed to unlock it. My friend slapped her full on over the face
I have seen her hit her on the bum but this was a bit much I thought. DH and I have decided no smacking due to our parents hitting us etc. and I have never really got on my soap box about smacking but slapping across the face. I didn't know what to do. I know my face said it all cos DH walked in and came over and said what's wrong.
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