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Hi Girls
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.
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Anzac Day wow bit emotional today.
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 :leap: for moving hope it all goes well
BW sam cuddles will fix any bad day.
Grub enjoy your holidays :D
Janie :leap: 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. :shakehead: 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 :o 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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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....
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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!
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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!
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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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Ooh sounds good BG, will try all of that. Mess, here we come!
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BG - Thanks for the great info on BLS. I am planning to do BLS to do all I can to prevent fussiness and food problems down the line and it is good to hear it works!
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mum used to do FDC and i seen some of the fussiest kids ever so i didn't want to go there!!
tonight for dinner we had fried rice with chicken. E at the whole thing. while we were cutting up the vegies she was snacking - a stick of celery, lumps of capsicum, etc, then she sat down to dinner with us - some rice got left behind, but she ate all her dinner, then was hassling us and taking the celery, capsicum, carrot, peas and corn from us - we offered chicken and that got turned down - she was just eating the veg!
fwiw - there really isn't as much mess with BLS as you might think. because they're eating solid food, you don't have mush to be spread everywhere! we put a mat underneath E (you can get proper messy mats in places like big w, but we just use a cheap plastic tablecloth!) and clean up as we're going. she gets a bit of sauce on her face when we have things like spag bol (we use spirals - easier to handle lol) but she's only needed a bath after food maybe two or three times in 5 months - so we're not doing too bad!
make sure you have the camera handy though - some of the photo ops are just gorgeous!
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Can I ask, what is FDC & BLS?
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BLS is Baby Led Solids or it is also called Baby Led Weaning.
Still waiting to hear what FDC is but I am guessing it is the opposite?
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FDC is family day care.
I wish I had time to type of everything that's going on... but I need to get things organised for the day at school (I'm not going) and it will take forever. I'm just not in a good headspace at the moment. :(
BW
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sorry, mum did family day care while i was growin up - there were other kids in the house most of my childhood. some were so fussy they refused to eat anything but noodles and dim sims (at 6!) -i didn't want DD to be like that so we've gone with baby led solids so that we are exposing her to everything from an early age
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Wow some wonderful solid ideas to remember.
What are your thoughts on starting solids when Linc is at Child Care? I wanted to start before but I don't think he'll be "fully started"
Well we went for our first visit yesterday :cry: Linc was ok, did his normal hungry song and dance and then fell asleep in my arms while I was talking to the assistant director about blah blah blah.
I've decided I can cope with 1 day but not two. So fingers crossed my boss is flexable on my working hours, but if not I'm taking AL and RDO's to make sure I'm home with him an extra day till he's 6 months at least, then maybe Nanna will be confident enough to have him for another 1/2 day. :pray:
Oh speaking of Nanna :leap: linc is now sleeping in her cot :D took a bit but a few little ajustments and he's sleeping his normal :shakehead: 40min naps. I wish he's sleep 2 hours like some babies but he is sleeping 7-3am so not too upset.
Have a great day all
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Hi All
Been busy here with having my IL's staying and DH also home on AL, so trying to do my normal routine stuff with Tara is pretty interesting with a house full of people.
With all the solids talk, we give Tara pureed stuff and I will gradually increase the texture once she is back to normal after her gastro bug. I've tried the BLS option with her as well but as she is so used to swallowing her solids as a puree, when she does the BLS she wants to swallow whole chunks of unchewed food resulting in gagging and sometimes spewing. So we are going through the different food textures here.
Oh, another milestone reached here as well.... Tara can now sit unassisted :dance: she is still a little wobbly at times but she did her first unassisted attempt and MG on Tuesday and at Baby Gym yesterday she was happy to sit and reach in front of her and then come back up to a straight back position. It will be interesting to see how she goes over the next few weeks with her reflux, I'm hoping now she can sit upright to play it will help enormously. And the other good thing is that I can now sit on the floor and play with her face to face.
Anyway better be off and get organised for the day. Hope you are all having a good one.
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Just wanted to say a big well done to little Tara! What a big milestone! Sitting unassisted is massive. Kelly - watch out now because she will get on the move very quickly from here. Jazzy was a very colicky baby and I found her colic settled down heaps once she was able to sit unassisted - not sure about the reflux, but hopefully it will help.
Green - I would just go with when Linc is ready with the solids - don't worry if that is when he starts at daycare or not, they should do what you ask of them with feeding him anyhow. Good luck with your boss - I hope you get some more time with Linc.
Got to run girls as at work (naughty me!) My mum arrives from NZ for a few days tomorrow night so really looking forward to that.
Hope everyone is well - we are still all well in our house (fingers crossed)!
Janie xxx
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:D hello to all my beauties,
just popping in to say a big hello to you all as im at mums rite now and we have no internet as yet,im missing bb so much its crazy how much i miss all you girls and our chats.
our new house is awsom ,i just love it so beautiful and quiet:)otherwise all is great with all of us.charlie is as cheeky as eva and growing so fast.
i went to sit on the toilet last night and there was a huge frog in the dunny omg i crapped my self:lol:
anyways girls please know i love you all and miss you all heaps and heaps,ill be back asap
also a big thank you to BOC for sending me a msg on my phone,though i had no credit to return the mesg hun but gee it was so nice to get it ,you made my day
by girls
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Hi again Gals!!!
Me and Colt are ready to join you here. We are finally getting organised enough to be on the puter lol.
The little man is doing great, he is now 8 pound 8 and will be six weeks on saturday.
He is sleeping through the night and having awake periods in the day. I am breastfeeding and expressing and am finally getting used to it. The housework has gone to hell in a handbasket and my c-section tummy bothers me no end but other than that, all is well. No sign of the PND.
It makes me so happy to read about everyone who travelled along this road with me:) You girls are the best!
Not sure how to post pics here but if anyone wants to see some, please feel to send me a friend request on FB.
http://www.facebook.com/sammie.jamieson?ref=profile
Oh dear, there is a bit of a pong coming from lil Colts neither regions (he is squirming around on my tum as we speak) better go sort that out.
Hugs to all!
Sammiejam
