Baby-Led Weaning Support Thread #2

[evanskimberley]

Sophie had chocolate for the first time today at a birthday party! Check out the aftermath!!!!
It was a chocolate cake/bar thingy, made with biscuits, crispies, apricots, raisins and chocolate of course!!!! I hasten to add that she had had a very healthy lunch of cucumber before hand!!!!!

[Bryony]

Kimberley - love the chocolate fest 

Lovedtodeath - sorry to hear your LO is not well.

Well Katie had her first peas today!  DH and I took her to the local pub for lunch and ordered her a child's portion of fish fingers, chips and peas. She ate two fish fingers, once chip, and nearly ALL the peas  .  This is the girl who won't eat green veg. Now peas are not something I would have thought of as good finger food - but she methodically chased each one around her tray, picked it up and ate it.   And it kept her entertained for about an hour while DH and I enjoyed a meal and a natter   

Bryony

[Freya'sMum]

ROFLMAO!

Kids love peas! And chocolate! Everything in moderation eh?

Had to take Eryn to A&E yesterday afternoon as she split her chin open falling off a deckchair onto something hard and it needed gluing - she was attempting a PhD in Mountaineering I think - anyway, just to prove she was fine (after the initial shock) she ate a whole adult-sized ricecake and a whole banana on the way back from the hospital, then all of her sausage and bean casserole and rice dinner! Nothing except teething affects this girl's appetite!

Ax

[VickyB20]

So sorry to hear about Eryn's adventure!  Hope she's healing quickly.
xx

[Aly Mac]

Lovedtodeath - sorry for your bub.  I hope now though sleep will be a little better.  Constipation is not conducive to sleeping!

Love the pic of the chocolate!

Peas, yep that and corn, L loves picking them up in her little fingers and placing them in her mouth. 

Alison, your girl is a little tough one!

Well I have now started morning and afternoon tea with L as her bf after her two naps, even though they are a decent 10-15mins just isn't sustaining her to the next meal, and within 45mins she is hungry.  So this morning I bf, then she ate a tablespoon on apricots, one ounce of cows milk and half a rusk! then this afternoon after bf, she ate a whole kiwifruit - a large one at that!!!  I did find she didn't eat as much lunch and dinner, but ok with that. would rather it be evened out.  I will do it this way for a little while and then maybe switch it around, solids then some milk (I gather this is the right way to do this? Alison, what's your take on this?)   I just don't think she will concentrate too much on the bf after food as she will be raring to play!  so we are on 5 meals a day and 4bf!!  I seem to spend half my time in the kitchen now, and hence the other half cleaning it.

anyone else, hating the high chair cleaning....just awful!!

[Freya'sMum]

Aleesa,

Post it as a schedule because my knackered brain can't work it out - need a visual representation! Then I might know the answer !

Eryn fine - she's forgotten all about it already!

Ax

[Lippy Chick]

Have had a busy few days.  Just read through everyone's posts too many to reply personally to each.

Everyone is doing so well though.

We started back with the BLW this week.  She seems to really like courgette, I even saw some skin in her poo the next day (the stuff we talk about!).  I gave her some petit filous and put it straight onto the highchair tray.  She didn't know what to do with it initially, so I put my finger in and put it to her lips.  She then put her fingers in and put them to her lips.  She's so funny doing it, she rubs straight through it and straight to the mouth.  Today she was doing it, but there was no petit filous on the tray.  I don't think she likes sweet potato now, still not keen on bananas either.  She does seem to be handling the food much better and is getting round to mushing the food in her mouth.  At some point she'll start to swallow it, but very early days.

To answer some of the earlier questions about her waking up.  Yes she used to sleep through great.  She takes about 890/900 mls milk a day about 28-30 0zs (I think).  We can't get any more in to her.  I read on another baby site that around 6.5 months they start to wake at night due to another developmental leap forward.  Anyway, really hoping it settles down soon, I really need proper sleep.

Wondering what time she's going to wake tomorrow because of the clocks going back.  No extra hour in bed for us, eh!!

Pauline

[Freya'sMum]

I've kept the girls up longer hoping they'll sleep their normal hours overnight and wake up at their normal time - didn't work last year tho so we'll see...

Ax

[Aly Mac]

Alison it took me a while to figure out your post - daylight savings I presume?  We don't have it hear, so never a problem.  HOpe it works out ok for you.

Ok, here my whole routine:

6/6.30 awake and BF
8 solids
9.15-10.45 nap
10.45 bf
12.00 solids
2-3.30 nap (this is often shorter, so basically bf after nap)
3.30 bf
4.30 solids
5.15 bath
6.15bf and bed.  asleep 6.45 or 7pm latest, depend on nap finish time and how tired she is.

OK, so what I am doing now, to intro solids as a snack (as bf doesn't seem to be enough is this)

6/6.30 awake and BF
8 solids
9.15-10.45 nap
10.45 bf & solid snack
12.30 solids
2-3.30 (this is often shorter, so basically bf after nap)
3.30 bf & solid snack
5 solids
5.45 bath
6.15 bf and bed.  asleep 6.45 or 7pm latest, depend on nap finish time and how tired she is.

What I was asking Alison, is should I be doing snack, then top off with bf? My take is, if I want to wean her from bf in these two bf (10.45 & 3.30) then I would do solids, then top off with bf, but if I wish to keep going with bf on these, then keep as bf, then solids. I am guessing with BLW I should bf, then solid snack. 

Was going to post as a separate post, but from what I've read, most at this age are solids then bf for everything. To me, if I follow BLW or if I wish to keep nursing, then this is not the case.  I didn't think I would really get an objective view if I posted in general iykwim?

With nursing in general, esp for these two, if I didn't offer the breast, but gave solids, I'm sure she would be ok. So I figure I have to do the leading here.

God I hope this all makes sense - it's late and I'm tired......

[VickyB20]

Bryony - how's Katie doing?  Better, I hope.
Vicky
x

[Bryony]

Vicky - thanks for your concern!  She's slowly on the mend - still grizzly and a bit weak but she's now kept down two smallish breastfeeds. Her A time has gone down to about half of what it was - so our days are all over the shop and that's even without the change to GMT!   

It feels such a shame as the two days before she was ill she had got really into eating - I did wonder initally if that was what made her sick but she was so unwell I think it must be a virus.

Hopefully she will be back to normal and chasing peas around the table again in a few days time

Bryony 

[VickyB20]

Will be thinking of you and sending healing and happy eating vibes!!
Vicky
x

[Lippy Chick]

Hope all in the UK's wake times weren't too early this morning.

There are so many bugs going around at the moment, it's so annoying, just when you think you're progressing, they get a cold and go backwards.  So frustrating.  Really hope that Katie gets better soon.

Aly Mac, I hope you can get your timings sorted.  I think way ahead and am thinking that at some point she will go solids first and milk as a snack.  She's a way to go before she gets there though.  So it will be interesting to see how you get on with the transition.  I think Alice could easily go 4 and a half hours between milk feeds, but that would totally muck up her timings (or is that my timings? ).

Pauline

[Freya'sMum]

Aleesa,

I hate the bl**dy clock change thingy - every year same old nightmare of everyone else getting an extra hour in bed, while I get an extra hour trying to cope with 2 overtired children grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Anyway... your routines look fine, almost exactly the same as mine in fact and Eryn is 16 months now! She still has milk first for those 2 daytime snack-feeds, 7oz of cow's milk each time plus maybe a babybel (mini edam cheese) and some apple or grapes. I've chosen to keep up her milk intake because she has so little dairy in her diet, other than some cheese, she needs to get it from milk, but if Lily has more dairy from other things, then it won't matter as much! I guess you're right in thinking it's more about whether you want to wean off the bf yet...?

Sending get well soon vibes to all poorly los! Eryn has a blue bruise on her forehead now to match her cut chin where she walked into the corner of our piano - ouch!

Ax

[lovedtodeath]

Poor Eryn, sounds just like a friend of mine... climbed on top of the television. Most kids wouldn't think to do that.

Sorry to hear so many with sick Los. We were thrown off track just when Jake started to eat more too. My whole family is sick constantly with DD in school for the first time this year. Plan to home-school after this, so not worth it.

He is back on food again. Had some asparagus at a restaurant and tonight at dinner a little sweet potato and a lot of green beans. (He sucked the seeds out of 4 or 5 of them) It is just so sweet the way he grabs his food. Had a poopy diaper today, so glad he had one on his own. Still threw up first thing this morning. Wierd. I am starting to wonder if it is something I am eating before bed. Poor baby.

We have a 9-9:30 bedtime and I was trying to change it to earlier. Daylight savings time will do it for me, so I am glad to have it. Ours takes effect Nov. 4. This is the second year we have it here, they voted it in and I really hate it! Mucks up sleep times with the sun shining brightly at 8:30 in the summer! At least it will help me get DD off to Kindergarten in the morning.

TTFN