Hi girls

We are off today to stay for one night at our house in Sorrento that we are renovating should be interesting as it is pretty much an empty house with only a microwave, kettle, fridge and toaster for a kitchen and only half a bathroom plus a small scattering of furniture, we have a bed down there and Dylan has his portacot, will be interesting to see if he sleeps.

Fee I am hearing where you are coming from with the settling thing, now at night Dylan wakes between each sleep cycle and pretty much needs resettling each time it is so frustrating as I need the nighttime for me time and I don't have it oh well. I hope for you that this is just a stage for Cooper and he gets back to settling again.

Roya Good to see you back and to hear you had a good trip. This is what I am doing with solids at themoment. I started Dylan on rice cereal mixed with cool, boiled water at luncthime after a boobie feed, then after a week I tried pureed apple at the lunchtime feed and then the next day I mixed the rice cereal and apple together so the luncthime meal was about double the amount and Dylan ate it all. I did this for three more days and then I offered a little pot of pureed, steamed pumpkin after the brekky feed (approx 8am) and then he had the apple and rice cereal at luncthime so that was after 9 days that I started two meals a day and he is loving both meals. The quantities I amusing at the moment which will increase are two largish ice cubes of pumpkin for brekky and two large cubes apple puree mixed with 3 dry teaspoons of rice cereal mixed with enough water to make the right consistency. So today is day 11 of solids and on Monday I am going to introduce pear to his meals. I too am quite confused about it all but am just plodding along and will see how it goes. I was given all of this advice by the MCHN and some brochures but that made me even more confused. I am not sure when to start dropping boobie feeds but I do know that at the moment the solids are more for the learning experience (ie different tastes, learning to chew, etc) than to be completely relied upon for nutrition as Fee said in her post
But for now milk is still the main source of nutrition and solids are just for tastes.
Hope this helps. Perhaps we could help each other through this very confusing time. Good luck.

Anyway off to get ready to go.