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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #135 on: October 24, 2007, 03:07:57 am »
I gave the girls a dill pickle today, just to see their reaction. They loved them! I'm sure I'm not supposed to give that to them - all the sodium, but what they heck. I don't have to give it to them again.

Pauline - I can't help you with the NW - Inez has slept through the night all of five times in the seven months she's been alive!

lovedtodeath - Sylvie doesn't go that often. She usually goes every 2-3 days. Are you feeding him lots of bready/carby things? That stops him up? Try more fiber - pear rings, squash, mashed peas.

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #136 on: October 24, 2007, 07:23:09 am »
Pauline - Sophie wakes a lot at night at the moment, but its not hunger, just wind, or developmental. You could pop over to our birthclub, we're all having similar probs. We may not be able to solve the problem, but I find that I realx a bit more when I know the others are doing the same thing. I worry less about the food then.

Lyn - are you using normal cheerios or do you have sugar free ones? Uk ones are loaded with sugar.
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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #137 on: October 24, 2007, 21:50:23 pm »
I always found that prunes do the trick really well.  I found a bottle called 'prunex' in the health food part of my supermarket - it's a bottle of mushed up prunes and I give her a half teaspoon of that when things aren't *working* so well.  Also, avoid fruit that is not ripe.  I think with BLW because we give pieces of fruit, you have to watch that they are ripe enough.  If you were doing puree, they would be ripe or cooked and it's easier for them to breakdown.  That's the other thing I do (sorry, not BLW) but I give her some puree fruit, normally every day to help keep her regular.  I've found the combination works well.  she is starting to eat it with her fingers though now!!

Here is a pic of my lo BLW with cake on her bday!!
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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #138 on: October 24, 2007, 23:23:06 pm »
I give Jake pureed peaches, applesauce and prunes by freezing them into cubes and placing in baby safe feeder.

I know a ripe banana should work, but I was not giving him solids for now with the vomiting. It is probably okay though because I think the vomiting is from mucus drainage he is coughing a lot, and because it happened again this morning. It is only when he first wakes up.

I roasted some carrots (90 minutes) and acorn squash (one hour) and gave him avocado, though he really seems to not like it, it is so good for him that I will keep offering.

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #139 on: October 24, 2007, 23:33:44 pm »
I love the pictures of Lilly, she certainly seems to be enjoying herself! 

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #140 on: October 25, 2007, 02:17:40 am »
she did!!

hey if your lo is off solids, pear juice is supposed to work well too. maybe in some water.
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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #141 on: October 25, 2007, 04:26:35 am »
Yay Lilly! She looks beautiful!

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #142 on: October 25, 2007, 11:09:41 am »
cute pictures!!
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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #143 on: October 25, 2007, 14:42:51 pm »
Thanks for all the comments ... we've just had 2 uninterrupted nights sleep in a row so we might have cracked it!  Until the next thing ...  :)
I've made sure we have a bigger gap between solids and milk and tried feeding her in her room away from any distractions, and I think she's getting more daytime milk as a result. And that seems to have done the trick.

Hope that something similar works for the others who have started NWs, too.

Am so proud of her ... we've had people for lunch yesterday and today, and both days she has sat at the table happily feeding herself whilst I've had a civilised, grown-up mealtime. In fact, she's eaten more than ever at both those meals ... Almost as if she's showing off a bit! I wonder if she knows that these wouldn't have been good meals to do her 'chew it ... spit it out ... rub it in mummy's hair' routine. She saves that till we are on our own!!

We, too, have constipation problems. Suspect it is because she has been having firm fruit for ease of holding, rather than ultra-ripe stuff, so will make sure she gets some squishier things tonight and tomorrow.
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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #144 on: October 25, 2007, 18:10:45 pm »
I wonder if she knows that these wouldn't have been good meals to do her 'chew it ... spit it out ... rub it in mummy's hair' routine. She saves that till we are on our own!!



Awww, already developing social skills.   ;)  Good for her!!!

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #145 on: October 25, 2007, 18:52:18 pm »
Aleesa - those pics are so cute. And I thought you said she only ate fruit and yoghurt  :D :D :D

Cathy - glad everything's going better for you and Anna.

Katie's latest thing is FISH. She just can't get enough of it!  Last night she has an enormous bit of smoked haddock, and tonight she had two fish fingers  :o  And this is the girl who until now ate very little.  She methodically picks up any green veg and drops it on the floor, then eats all the protein and carbohydrate in sight....

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #146 on: October 25, 2007, 19:04:30 pm »
Bryony,

Salmon is great!

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #147 on: October 25, 2007, 19:08:00 pm »
Yeah she loves salmon too - we are going to have to start buying her a whole portion rather than giving her some of mine  :o :o

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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #148 on: October 26, 2007, 05:05:55 am »
cathy I find L is on her *best food behavour* too when people are here. hardly any mess at all!!
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Re: Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2
« Reply #149 on: October 26, 2007, 15:28:25 pm »
He still had no bowel movement since Saturday so I gave him an enema yesterday. He didn't mind at all and out came the poopy. Slept a little better. Still coughing and spitting up mucus. Any time I try anything other than breast milk he throws up bad! Pear juice was the first thing he vomited. :'(

Thanks for the replies. Enjoyed hearing about your day Cathy.
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