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trina - so sorry... i hope he stays... it's hard for the kids to see soemone other than their daddy but they will realise that daddy wasnt always nice to mummy and here's someone who makes her happy. it's hard for them right now i guess, i hope they can and will. it's a hard situation...
thanks for your reassuring words...
xoxox
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I got Jesse some cute Seseme street & Pooh bear cups with straws & he's started having full cream milk out of them. He loves it.
I think I'll just go with those instead of bottles. Should be easier to get them off him.
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Hi girls
I haven't forgotten about you, just been so busy lately..... and DJ is very active now, just don't get much time to rest and if I do, I go onto the computer for a bit and by the time I go to type a message here I am needed again haha
A few questions about development stuff
1) are your babies drinking from a cup now, and drinking water? DJ isn't a big water baby and will only drink it from a bottle, I put the water in a cup and just let him play with it to get used to it though.
2) What solids are you giving your baby during the day? I want to know if I am giving him enough. I give him his rice cereal in the morning with some fruit plus bottle beforehand, then snack is a yoghurt plus bottle around 11'ish... Lunch is normally veges or something, whatever I can come up with.... and afternoon snack is normally crackers and bottle. Then dinner, he is still a bit fussy with lumpy foods, all depends.... I am trying to get him more used to it and giving him more finger foods. Just want to get an idea of what everyone else does.
3) Are you still sterilising bottles? I am still doing this and wanting to know if I should start to stop it.... I know they say 12 months but he is crawling around and putting so many other things in his mouth hhaa
4) what time is your baby going to sleep at night and how long do they sleep - right through? DJ is now sleeping through but still goes to bed around 8:30-9pm.... trying to get him to bed earlier but he is so wired and awake haha sleeping through til 5 or 7 most mornings.... but if he wakes at 5am he will have a bottle and go back to sleep for a few more hours.
I can't think of anything else.....
I will do some personals later when DJ goes down for another sleep
Shell xxx
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Hey Shell. Good to hear from ya.
Through the day Jesse will have toast, or weetbix, or pureed apples or something for brekky.
Banana, cucumber or grapes for morning tea.
Toasted sandwich for lunch, or chips or something if we are out.
Sao's or mini rice cakes for after noon tea.
Mashed potatoe, pasta, meat, vegies, noodles or something for dinner.
He really only has boob for sleep now. Sometimes if he's upset he gets it too. Started him on full cream milk for drinks. Big water drinker. Its all he's really had besides BF so far.
Dad gave him a nice big drink of black current juice yesterday. He was already drinking it when dad asked if he should've watered it down, lol.
He has also been having an occasional popper, maybe once a week.
Sleeping....not so great. He goes down between 8 & 9. He usually wakes at 7am, but wakes around twice through the night.
He's mostly drinking out of a straw now. Not to keen on cups, but will occasionally have one. Hates bottles, lol.
Haven't been sterilising for a long time. Probably from around 5 or 6 months when he started eating everything. He hasn't had anything really that needs it though. No dummies or bottles.
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1. Jazz is drinking from a sippy cup but it took us a little while to find one that she loves. We just use the take & toss ones. Pack of 6 really cheap. Even though they are "take & toss" they are dishwashable so I to rewash and reuse them, it just doesn't matter if we loose one as they aren't expensive. Particularlly in this heat, I offer her water before a bottle as often she doesn't want any milk but just wants a few monthfuls of water. She gets so excited when she sees her cup. She wont take water from a bottle and wont take milk from a cup at the moment.
2. Jazz has a bottle in the morning if it's before 8am (which on weekdays it is). At daycare she has weetbix with cows milk for breakfast at about 8:30, lunch at 11:30 which is whatever I pack, generally roughly diced veggies. She loves eating food that has to be chewed, this is often followed by a bit of soft bread roll with vegemite or bread crusts, a teddy bear biscuit or heinz cheesymite stick, then a bottle at 12:30 and nap for a couple of hours. After her nap she has a mix of pureed fruit & yoghurt and another biscuit. At home we either don't give her anything until a bottle after her bath or sometimes we'll give her some things off our dinner plate (if she doesn't steel them first). She'll have a few chips, some carrot sticks, peas and maybe something else depending on what we're having. If we're having pasta we'll give her some of that too.
3. I never really sterilized. I was told by several people in the medical field that it's really not necessary and to be honest, Jazz has had far less instances of being sick than a friend's child the same age who had everything sterilized. I think I only did it 3 or 4 times when she was really little. First time was as soon as she was born and other than that it was only when we bought something new. I use a high heat setting in my dishwasher which sanitises everything anyway.
4. Night time sleeping is an issue. She will be really tired and start to dose off during story time (after bath, while drinking a bottle), but then as she starts dosing it's as if she realises and then she spends the next 2-3 hours fighting sleep. Often she ends up in bed at about 10 or 11pm which is so annoying. She'll sleep until about 6:30-7:00 but I think that's more because she's used to being woken up then so we can go to daycare/work so now her body is used to having to get up at that time.
I'm trying everything to get her to sleep at 8-8:30. At least tonight I'll be relaxed watching TV from 7:30 onwards (my fave shows all start tonight) so I'll make sure that I've gotten everything done before then. If I'm relaxed then she seems to fall asleep more easily.
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sigh.. poopy's at day care and i took today off to stay at home just in case.. i feel terrible..
shell.
they say stop sterlising at 6mths, so i did that then.
he has a sippy cup for milk and water, from 6mths.
he's on cow's milk. just thot it'd be easier as they give him cow's milk at day care.
he has the same food as us now. weetbix, toast, yoghurt for breakkie.. indian/western food for lunch and dinner. we cook the same for all of us.
but no eggs, shellfish etc yet.
i do have 1 question.. when can they drink off the tap, when do we stop giving them cooled boiled water?
take care, down w a stupid cold, and back to work tomorrow.. im just havign a sad sad day
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Prama - I think at 12 months. I'm giving tap water most of the time now, depending on if the jug is hot or empty or what ever.
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Hey again,
We have introduced eggs and not having any issues with DJ, he absolutely loves scrambled eggsmakes it easier when we are having our breakfast he is having the same
I think I will stop sterilising bottles. Such a time waster..... Start putting them in the dishwasher or handwashing them
This morning I gave him his milk from a sippy cup and he drank it but when I was helping him hold it, he let go and let me hold it. Lazy bugger.... I need to get some new plates and forks etc... been using just spoon for his food and now he is getting older thought I better get ready for when he uses them more.... .also need plates. I only have bowls for him, not plates.
Prama - I bet Poopy is having an absolute balldon't feel terrible it is the right thing to do, think of the interaction he will have with the other babies
Skye - great work on the straw
How has everyone been anyway? Sorry no time for personals today..... I am feeling a bit lazy really..... so apologies...
Shell xx
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Prama it gets easier I promise *Hugs*
SJ glad things went well going back to work :-)
Trina hun..hmmm hope the man thing works out you deserve some luve and attention too .
Shell routine and food wise
Bottle at 6 ish when he wakes up breakfast at 8 ish weetbix and fruit, porridge and fruit, yogurt some days its melon strawberries cherry tomatoes and toast.
Sleep at 9.30-10 depends if he has woken through the night.
Bottle when he wakes up.
Lunch 12.30 He prefers finger food for lunch so a vegemite sandwich, grated cheese cherry tomatoes, cooked sweet potatoe chunks, pasta a yougurt or creamed ricem custard and fruit.
If he usually has another sleep then a bottle about 3ish.
Dinner 5.40- 6 ish
he loves fish with veges, meatballs and pasta sauce he has also been having some tinned food to get used to before we go away. Sometimes I just steam the veges whole and he feeds himself. Food is only mashed hasnt been blended for a while.
I give tap water but boiled water in bottles..silly huh. Only juice if constipated .
Cows milk on his cereal as an intro and he has has scrambeled egg and quiche.
Snacks are fruit, arrowroots, cheesymite sticks and full fruit iceblocks which have been great in this heat.
Bath at 6.30 play
Bottle at 7.45
Stories till about 8.20 then bed
He has water out of a cup
Sometimes like today he is having another afternoon sleep as we had visitors this morning and he was all played out.
Am very excited got a parcel in the post today. I won a camera on WIN TV for WIlls santa photo with the bear. It finally arrived its a great camera and does video as well so we are taking it to the beach. Shock horror we get a compo pay out and win a camera this year...come on number 3 am hoping its the lotto *L*
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In my case as a resident of Adelaide the answer to that is NEVER! I wouldn't drink the tap water in Adelaide so there is no way that Jazz will be. We buy a cask of spring water and we either drink that or we all drink cooled boiled tap water. I keep a jug of boiled water in the fridge!
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Just remember that if they don't drink tap water you should add flouride drops to their water. You don't have to of course, but they should have it & it is added to tap water in most areas.
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