Breakfast food ideas!

[Shiv52]

Good luck with Preston's results...keep us posted!  


What is it with bananas? Again on the consistency..I couldn't eat a mashed banana..yuk!!   Maeve will have a bit if i'm eating one (she would eat coal if I was eating if first though!!) but not if I give it to her at a meal!  Toddlers indeed!!  

Would love that recipe Andi!

Am starting to give Maeve cows milk too but she is not impressed!  She will take it in cereal etc but not as a drink.  Will have to keep trying as I want to stop breast feeding at some stage and want her to drink milk!!  I am so over pumping too (bad mummy) so mixing the two isn't an option.  Please tell me she'll learn to like it eventually??!

[Shiv52]

Posted at same time Andi!  Thanks for recipe!

[mini me]

Copied this one too for Honey weetabix muffins

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon allspice
5 Weetabix, biscuits, crushed
1/3 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
1 cup plain nonfat yogurt
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 cup butter, melted
4 tablespoons honey
brown sugar, for topping

Directions
1Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2Grease muffin cups or use paper baking cups.
3In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and allspice. Stir in the Weetabix and sugar.
4Mix the yogurt and milk together in separate bowl and beat in the egg, melted butter, and honey.
5Mix the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.
6Scoop batter into the muffin cups and sprinkle a little more brown sugar on top of the batter.
7Bake 20-25 minutes or until the muffins have risen and are golden brown.
8Turn out onto a rack to cool or serve warm for breakfast with yogurt and fruit.


Will try these too ... sound yummy!!

[Rebecca247]

mmmm yummy, the honey weetbix muffins sound delicious! might have to have a baking weekend! (in between football and basketball)

Thanks everyone i'm at least happy that its something Preston can control if he has it and not life threatening if we control it properly!
I'm eager for the results though!!!

Well i added 100ml cows milk and 120ml formula last night and Max drank it, so i'll do the same consistency today/tonight and change again tomorrow! but Shiv the change will be hard for you BF...Not sure how to go about that!

I was making a the formula up this morning ( i make a jug up for the whole day) and felt abit sad that soon i wont be doing it anymore. I think because Max is my last baby i have been holding onto all the baby stuff! I still snuggle him into me and give him his bottles!!! but i love the snuggle time!

We had a HV check up yesterday to monitor his weight, he hasnt grown much but he is fine. What is the weight of your LO's out there, Max is just about 10kg. Not sure what that is in pounds, i did havea conersion chart somewhere....I'll keep looking. He is 78cm in length aswell!
Just interested in everyone elses LO's...

[mum101]

Leo isn't growing well. He's 9 kilos now, maybe 9.2kg. But he was 9 kilos at 8 months. He's 77cm tall. Giving he's been unwell for 2 weeks, I'm a bit worried. As a baby he was always a big bubba, everyone always thought he was older than he was. And it was easy for me, as DD was the same, esp tall for her age.

[Rebecca247]

Max has never been a big bubba, he weighed 6 pound born. He had a time from 4 months-9 months where he only gained 0.75g. So we were referred to a paediatrician. he wasnt concerned though! He has gained not even 2 kilo from 8 months - 16 months! But he's active and healthy i guess!

[mum101]

Glad to know someone else is in the same boat! It's worrying me at the moment.
Can you tell me more about the paediatrician visit?  Why he wasn't concerned and when you feel it should be a concern?

[Rebecca247]

I have no idea when it becomes a concern, i was quite concerned at the time as I think he should have gained alot more that 0.75g in 5 months. My other kids gained alot more and were average. max was and still is well and truely below average!

The paed checked him over completely and also made sure he wasnt tongue tied! Everything was GREAT and he said he was a happy, healthy baby boy and he even told me not to worry that he wasnt eating much and taking much in a bottle. I couldnt get him to drink anymore than 100ml at 9 months, and he wouldnt touch much solid food either. He did tell me to perservere with solids and only offer fruits/veggies. Nothing sweet until he ate more. He also looked at my DH and myself and said we were obviously small people so Max wasnt going to be big....But i also pointed out that my other 2 kids werent like that as babies.  Still he wasnt concerned, he said it would become a concern if he continued to lose weight and drop below the  5th percentile line which he is following at the moment! He just told me to get him weighed every few months to make sure he is following that line and if he dips below to go back and see him again! He is still following the line as he thinks he will follow it all his life.
Hope that makes sense. have you seen a HV about you LO???

[mini me]

I think as long as they are develpoing well, eating a range of food (quality rather than quantity), happy disposition, sleeping well (always a good sign) then they are just growing at their own rate! I was told that from year 1 - 2 they should only gain around 1-1.5kg! so maybe they will catch up during this slowing down period?? Basically I think they slow down because they are burning up all their calorie intake physically and mentally. DD was born 2.8kg 49cm long but rapidly guzzled her way up to the 95th centile and has stayed there on all three charts (head circ, height and weight) her weight has dropped recently tho (last 2mths she lost 100g) but am not worried as she has podgy bits still!! But I can totally understand you worrying as a mum if they haven't put on for a while, but as long as they are checked over, then try and put your minds at ease.

[Shiv52]

Maeve's always been on the 95th percentile too.  Funnily I just got her weighed yesterday and she was 10.4kg, was 9.4kg in January and I was surprised it was only a kilo difference although she's grown taller.

I wouldn't worry too much about the weight so long as your LOs seem happy and healthy.  My DH's nephew (will be 2 in June) is only a kilo heavier than Maeve now.  He has always been on the 5th percentile for weight and i think SIL was concerned as Maeve was catching up.  She got him assessed though and the HV said he was meeting all the other developmental markers so she didn't see a cause for concern.  Just has to monitor it and make sure it stays on same percentile. 

[hemz80]

Maeve's always been on the 95th percentile too.  Funnily I just got her weighed yesterday and she was 10.4kg, was 9.4kg in January and I was surprised it was only a kilo difference although she's grown taller.

You'll find that after a year their rate of growth slows down considerably and their appetite isn't quite as huge as before... all "Normal".  Your SIL sounds like me... my almost 2 and a half year old is the same weight as my friend's 8mo =(

[Rebecca247]

well i'm happy that Max is "normal" then, my FIL always says how little he is and he had been away for 5 weeks with my 2 yr old nephew who is ALOT bigger then max and when he got home he said max looked skinnier and smaller. I told him its probably cos he'd spent so much time with nephew whose very solid! But i got him checked anyway to "shut" him up aswell and also put my mind at rest!
I guess we'd all be worried if they were obese and overweight aswell, so i'm happy with my smaller little munchkin...he does burn alot of energy all day as he is never still unless its during his 2 hr nap!

How does everyone make sure they get all the proper food groups into one day for your toddlers?
What are the amounts they should be having???

[Rebecca247]

I found this brekkie recipe today. i havent tried it yet but I think Max might like it....

Breakfast Soup/toast fingers

8oz vanilla yoghurt
1tsp honey
1/2 cup cubed banana
1/2 cup peaches, peeled
1/4 cup wheatgerm

Blend together and top with additional wheatgerm. Serve with toast fingers...

[mum101]

Hope that makes sense. have you seen a HV about you LO???

Yep, Leobin was accidentally weighed at 11 months and after thinking it over I took him in to check his weight. The health nurse said to try to fatten him up, if he doesn't gain after all that perhaps there is a food issue. He gained 260g in the month (which I think he's lost after being sick these couple of weeks). She said go to the doctor. The doctor checked him over and asked if I hadn't accidentally found out his weight would I have thought there was something wrong. I said no, I noticed his limbs were a bit leaner but he was happy and active.

When i was trying to fatten him up I could feed him more food, even some by spoon (mince and veggies with almond meal added) so in a way I could add more to him, but after being unwell he's accepted food off a spoon once.

[Rebecca247]

wow that sounds exactly like me, I took Max to my GP as he had an ear infection and he weighed him for me, (he was 8.5 months) and he weighed 7 kg and i thought it sounded familiar but i didnt have my baby book with me, as soon as i checked when i got home, he weighed 6.75kg at 4 months, so not much of a gain in 4.5 months! So i freaked out. I probably wouldnt have worried to much either, I knew he was small, but the not gaining weight worried me. Both my other kids gained good amounts all the time, so i knew it wasnt quite normal!

Hope you get some peace of mind soon!
xxxx