Crawling isn't really a milestone as such - they don't *have* to crawl, and if they don't master it, it doesn't indicate any major issue. Two hours a day is a long time for a baby to be in anything - but hey, you do what you've got to do, and Tom probably spends that much time all up in his high chair while we eat, watching me cook, etc.

One thing that can happen with kids who've never crawled is that they can have issues later on with some motor skills. But there are physio things you can do if that's the case, and really, what can you do - *make* them crawl? You can't make a baby do anything they don't want to do!!

Nelly, re food at lunch time, I just do sandwiches, yoghurt and a variety of pieces of fruit - basically what me and dh have for lunch. Sometimes he has crackers and cheese. He doesn't eat a *lot* of food though. I got told off at the MCHN today for breastfeeding him "too much". (He has between six and eight breastfeeds a day, probably about 800ml milk, since I usually pump about 180ml a session at work.)

Here's an average to good day of food for him:

  • Breakfast: 1 weetbix with cow's milk, a quarter piece of toast and vegemite.
  • Morning snack: a small handful of sultanas, or a digestive biscuit
  • Lunch: Small sandwich with whatever on it, a couple of little pieces of cheese, a selection of fruit pieces
  • Afternoon snack: fruit and/or yoghurt, or a cracker
  • Dinner: tbspn meat (he loves fish and chicken and sausages), mouthfuls of whatever vegies we are having, and he particularly loves potatoes. He likes to eat beans

I'm finding that just offering him lots of different food types during the day is the best way of getting enough into him. I didn't offer him his usual late afternoon breastfeed today, and he ate nearly a whole sausage, two big potato wedges and a mouthful of sweet potato. (Yes, I know, not very healthy, but we had a bbq and that's all there was that he could eat. It's better than Clare, who just had a Weetbix for dinner!)