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tara - aston does that too, i find him all over the cot now!
ann - hope your feeling better soon. i have two sick kids at the moment. hope it doesnt become three!
kim - glad the weekend went off well. look forward to seeing some piccies.
hi jols, nelly, christy, blanche, gigi, and everyone else...
got heaps to say, but are too tired tonight to type it... sad I know..
I dont think any of you ladies FF do you?? But might still have some ideas of what i can do/give instead.
Today at FDC Chelsea has had 2 full bottle in total (400ml out of possible 880ml), ate her yoghurt, fruit and vegies. But i cant get her to drink milk???? When she got home i gave her some juice and toast but i think played with it more then ate any.
I tried pieces of fruit on Saturday and she played with them. What else can i give her....i want her to eat foods that will fill her up. I dunno how to give her filling foods (like meats and pasta etc like she is supposed to be eatting cos im so silly).
HELP...... things have gone down hill in a day and im stressing!
I FF Kim here is Emelias day
wake up - Bottle 200ml
hour later - yoghurt or baby porriage and fruit pureed a little
lunch - vegies and pasta/meat or a sandwich with tuna and cheese
hour later - Bottle 200ml
dinner - Vegies and yoghurt
then bottle like 10 mins after 200ml
sometimes through the day i will give her some fruit as "finger food" and she has her water throughout the day in sippy cup
im looking into diferent things i can give her too she has had lasgane and spagetti before but didnt really like them!
maybe u could grab a baby/toddler recipe book or look online, i have been meaning to but cant really be bothered atm to tell the truth!!
How do you give her the vegies and pasta and stuff Blanche??
Just whole or mashed a bit or wat?? Im so damn clueless its not funny....
Chelsea doesnt know how to 1. hold a sippy cup and 2. drink from one...ive been trying but getting no where.....arghhhh im so useless....ill say it to the day i die.. wish she could live on milk for live cos i hate giving solids cos i have no idea what im doing!
On another note: Baptism pics now on her site :)
kim i but the very small star pasta brand DIVELLA STELLINE 74 from safeway, saves having to mush big pasta up, sophie last night had that with spag bol that i had frozen into cubes for her from the previous nights dinner, sophie is lucky to have 1 tbs of brekky, 1 whole avocado for lunch with tuna and 3 cubes for tea, she then had approx 2 cubes of custard and fruit for dessert,
going to check out your pics now!!
WOW gorgeous pic kim~
Dont worry Kim, now I feel useless cos there is no way evie is eating anything that everyone else seems to be eating! she might have had a teaspoon or two of yogurt this morning, i might try some toast with avocado for lunch tho...by the way what does FF stand for? Force feed? What do you mean by that?
are you guys paranoid about baby choking? i really am and i think thats really limiting what i'm willing to try her on. like she loves sausage (actually she's happy to try anything) but i always pull it out of her mouth because she cant chew it up and i'm worried she'll choke
Night started off good for us slept from 615 til 1015 then was up every 2 hours plus took DH and I an hour and a half to get her back to sleep.
I am so over thinking. i have had enough with trying to work out what works and what doesnt. i'm trying to remind myself that she's a happy baby and thats what matters
Jols where in Safeway do you find them meals??
FF stands for Formula Feed Tara.
We drank 180ml of a bottle this morning....better then nothing.....will have some yoghurt at 1040 and try a sandwich or something later....thank god i have my health check up tmrw...ill prob burst into tears when i ask what to do....:(
kim do you mean the pasta????, as for the spag bol i just make my own
yeah the pasta!
I worry bout giving Chelsea stuff to Tara cos she cant chew... but i spose they will never learn to eat or swallow if we dont try!! Craig freaks when i give bread
jols I love the piccie of sophie, she looks gorgeous... Isnt this age so much fun (well apart from the sleeping, feeding, getting sick stuff lol) they play with you now. I love it. Makes up for all the ick stuff
I have to agree with you there Vicky. Evie cracks me up how she'll climb all over me, go and sit with a toy, crawl over to something else, come back to Mummy Mountain and then she's off again
so true vivky!!!!! i'm loving it!!! could almost think about doing it all again!!
Kim just in the pasta isle, though i had to look very hard for it!!!
I was stressed about Ella chocking too but I realised as long as I was with her she'll be fine. (DH and I did the babies & toddlers First Aid course) If they choke flip them over your knee and give them 3 sharp slaps on their upper back.
Ella learned to chew through eating toast - I gave her a little bit (about 5mm square) and let her suck it and chew it. Their saliva eventually softens it to a harmless mush and then they swallow it.
It takes a while to teach them but now Ella can have chunks of lamb roast or her new favourite sultanas!
Kim - baptism pics are so cute. Love her dress. Hope you have more luck with milk and food today.
AJP - love the new pic of Sophie. She's so adorable.
I'm still sick at home. I'm propped up in bed with my laptop and my Gatorade. I've eaten a few pieces of carrot in DH's chicken soup but that's it since Saturday night. I'm starving but i cant hold anything down.... and i dont have the strength to hold Ella. :( Just hope this ends soon.
Ann
Ta Jols...
Yep im loving this stage....and to think im lucky to go thru it all again soon! Woo Hoo!!
Get better soon Ann!
Ann thats awful I hope you feel better & get some energy.
Jovie still has fork mashed foods, things like toast she isn't interested in. I went all out of my way & made homemade bread without the soy flour that all the other breads and she wouldn't even put it in her mouth :rolleyes:. But she has:
5amish breastfeed
7amish porridge and fruit puree
10amish breastfeed
12ish fruit puree & avocado fork mashed
3pmish breastfeed (and any others wanted before then ;))
5pmish veges and either polenta or rice
6pmish last breastfeed before bed.
Kim - have you tried doing a casserole and mushing it up? that is really filling too. You can also add some grated cheese for more flavor.
Ann
Im just gunna have to get whatever foods and try see if she will eat them.....im at a loss atm.
i'm trying to cut a feed out for aston - not having much luck though. a typical day for us is:
between 4-5.30 BF - usually only one side because he falls back asleep til 7-7.30
7.30 other side BF.
8.30 - 9 breakfast - pears/apples with mixed cereal or porridge/ sometimes a piece of english muffin
10 sleep
depending on what time he wakes I will BF him, and he will have both sides
12-1 lunch mixed veges or pumpkin and couscous or vege/meat then some yogurt or custard
2-2.3- sleep
again depending on what time he wakes BF and both sides.
4.30 - 5 Dinner similar to lunch.
6-7 last BF before bed
sometimes for a snack around morning tea time or afternoon tea - i'll offer him a rusk or arrowroot biscuit.
I guess now I look at it he really is only having 4 BF's...
8am-Bottle
10am- Fruit puree
12pm- Bottle
2pm- yoghurt
6pm-vegies
8pm- Bottle
Last night at 8 i gave her some toast and she played with it.. ate nothing pretty much. SOmetimes i give her apple and again... just sucks or throws it on the ground. At night sometimes give her a try of our food and she has no idea wat to do and spits it out.
Sounds about right Kim. When I was worried about what Jovie was eating or lack of variety etc, I spoke with the allergist who said, as long as she starts having 3 meals a day by 12 months not to worry... And he said for Jovie 3 meals of fruit mash is fine. LOL... so don't worry too much about variety and courseness of food yet. I wouldn't even think about giving Jovie finger foods yet, but Matilda at this age was eating only finger foods... different kids, different styles.
Things like cous cous, rice, polenta... the grains are really good to introduce, you can make them all really easy to eat and mix them with mashed veges and start that way too. Cous cous is just tiny pasta anyway... so in time you can do more. Oh! I almost forgot, Matilda's favourite snack used to be plain pasta cooked to death as a finger food. So she could pick it up & put it in her mouth... Jovie doesn't put anything into her mouth so that doesn't help LOL.
That's a great idea Christy. We'll try plain pasta too.
Our day is:
7am - breakfast of apples/pears and weetbix
8am - Boobs
9am - Nap 1
11am - Wakes up and has water and dried figs or sultanas
12pm - Lunch of veges or casserole
1pm - custard or fruit gel
2pm - Nap 2
3pm - Wakes up and has water and sometimes 1 boob
5pm - Dinner she has pasta or veges with couscous or casserole
6.30 - Breastfeed
11pm - Breastfeed.
Ann
OMG my little sausage has been asleep since 11.30am!!! its 1pm now! Some of you may think, an hour and a half is normal. This is the longest day sleep she has ever had. I don't know what to do, I already ran around & hung out washing, did the dishes, swept the floors... and sat down & had lunch.
Try cubes of really ripe pear - they can pick it up but it is so soft it mushes really easily in their mouths.
Hi girls - sorry have been sick with gastro last week, then Jake has been really sick this week and now I am losing my voice and have a really blocked heaad. I am so so so so sick of winter colds and flus!
Our average day is like Vicky's
6-7 am Breast feed both sides
cuddle and play in bed until 8
8 am Breakfast porridge / mixed cereal with apple / peach prunes and apricots
930 - 10ish sleep
11am morning tea - trying to drop this BF so he usually has water and a pear and / or half a banana
1230 lunch Meat / veges or pasta, fruit and yoghurt, or sandwich fruit and yoghurt
2pm sleep
3pm afternoon tea BF and fruit
5pm dinner meat and veges / pasta, finger sticks of fruit or veges to chew on and custard
630 -7pm ish Bedtime BF
We sometimes have a 11ish BF in the morning but when he is well he drops it - I think all this illness has just slipped it back in. He has water in one of the many types of sippy cups we have he varies which one he wants to use - sometimes the straw, or spout or just a cup.....
Pasta we use risoni which when cooked is a little bigger than a grain of rice, macaroni which I just chop the bits in half with a spoon when feeding him or couscous which he just eats as is.
evie ate a teeny piece of toast for lunch so thats good.
I dont know what to do about her waking up 3 times a night still for feeds...by the looks of it no-one else is feeding during the night.
She also started dancing yesterday, bobs around and swivels herself, its very funny
kim have you tried avocado???? i'm surprised sophie hasnt turned green with the amount she eats, if all else fails for us we give her avocado!!! she loves it, i get the bags from aldi for $2
tara I stopped feeding Aston in the night about a month ago. It was knocking me around so much physically and I knew that he didn't need it, it was just a lovely little comfort suck for him. I noticed that he had stopped "feeding" and started comfort sucking, and it was becoming 3-4 times a night, and I was shattered. so I took some advice from a friend (thanks Nelly :) ) and took the bull by the horns so to say. It only took a couple of nights for him to start settling quickly. The first night it took about half an hour for him to realise that I was not going to offer him the boob, and then he went back to sleep... and gradually each night it just got less and less time. I decided that I would not feed him until after 4.00am. most of the time now its about 5.20, but initially if he woke at 4am I would feed him. I have noticed also that he is now eating more that I stopped feeding him in the night, except when he was teething and sick.
Yeah, see I dont know if she really is hungry when she wakes up because she isnt eating any solids. A couple of times i have tried to not offer boob but i end up patting and rocking for hours. the boob is obviously a good sleep cue so i dont know what to do instead. it seems that she just lays there waking up more and more until i offer it to her through sheer exhaustion on my part. when i feed her though i can hear her swallowing - almost gulping - so perhaps it is hunger (what do i know, i'm just her mum!)
Mind you, we're moving house within the next week so it's probably not a good time to stop offering that comfort.
Perhaps later, Vicky you wouldnt mind taking me through exactly what you did to cut out the night feed.
Tara - Ella bobs up and down when she's sitting in her high chair or on the floor. Its so cute. Sounds like Evie's doing really really well.
We did exactly as Vicky did as well. We cut out her night feeds at 8months. She stopped her night feeding over a week. The first few times are tough and long but they eventually do go to sleep. Now Ella is (sometimes) an eating machine. She smacks her lips when she sees the bowl and spoon.
AJP - Our little girl only has avocado on bread. Doesnt like big spoons of it - dont know why. I love it!
Ann
Tara sometimes we get up & sometimes we don't, sometimes we feed & sometimes we don't. Often I am asleep when she wakes up at 11pm and DH sometimes settles her with the dummy and sometimes with a bottle, he lets me sleep. Then some nights she wakes up at 3am... we have no "normal" over here ;)
Ive not tried avocado yet.... might give it a go.....!
Cruskits too... Jovie had a ball gumming one today.
I forgot to say that we had blood tests this morning. Both girls... it went so much better than I expected which was great, but there were still tears.
aston managed a few movements forward this afternoon!! YAY!! and he can now get himself up from his tummy to sitting...any day now..
OK today we have had 3 bottles so far and drank most of them, 1 vegimite sandwich ate bout half, yoghurt, fruit gel, some potato and half piece of bread.
woo hoo go Chelsea!
1 sandwhich is huge!
ann
Sounds like Chelsea is doing good with her eating and what ur giving her is fine Kim
sorry no personals been flat out today just wanted to pop on and say how gorgeous Chelsea looked..she got some good pressies too!!!
Thanks Ann and Blanche... i guess her food is ok.. btu not *real* food IYKWIM... not meals as such!
Ta..Chels done very well pressie wise, some cute stuff indeed.
We're still feeding thru the night, here at Bilby HQ.
11pm
2am
5am
8am
that's our night of b/f-ing
but we've stopped changing her every feed, that's the only real change. The night nappies are working really well (Kester Kovers, Sandman, Sugarpeas) and the woollies make great defacto pyjamas. I am very happy with the no leaks, considering she is in our bed for the feeds, and i often fall asleep so she stays there for hours.
tried the Jolly Jumper for the first time tonight, she ADORES it, not a very vocal bub, but the huge grins and chuckles, just gorgeous to hear. She looks like a laughing baby with the sound turned down!!
tried some steak and veg food in a jar, for 7 - 9 months recc. - well she choked on first mouthful, so won't be using that again for a while. (she's 8.5months old). we keep feeding her in the rocker, as don't have a highchair yet, it's such a battle to keep her little hands out of the food on the spoon!
Where is my beautiful baby who used to sit in the middle of the floor and play quietly by himself1?!?!?!?!?!?
Jake is crawling, commandoing when we get lazy, and pulling himself up on everything! I have a shadow that follows me everywhere and as soon as I stop he's pulled himslef up me and is standing there pleased as punch! Can't sit at the computer anymore without little hands questing their way along the top of the table - Jake is a very tall baby! He can open drawers he discovered last night and I am sure cupboards aren't too far away either....
This weekend is the baby-proofing for real weekend!!!!
I hear you Nelly! Evie pulled the corner protectors off the cabinet and chewed on them!!!!
We were up every 2 hours last night, but i alternated feeding and patting and she didnt take too long to go back to sleep...but this every 2 hour business..i dont know
Ann - good to hear someone else is still a feeding night-owl like me :)
TARA sophie did the same thing with those corner things!!!! we fed at 2.30am last night, WT?????