Not managed to get on the past couple of days so have just been catching up . . .
Berni, what is it about the BFing that makes our boobs smaller than before!??
Wish I knew the answer LOL!! I had quite an ample pair before I had DD and then they just got bigger and bigger during PG - much to the amusement of my male work colleagues at the time - good job they didn't see me a few days after DD was born when my milk arrived. I just remember catching sight of myself in the mirror in the morning - felt like I'd gone to bed as me and woken up as Jordan
(I know the UK ladies will know who I mean, not sure if she's made it overseas yet - tho am thinking the world knows her!) However after 13 months of BF all I'm left with is a couple of 'empty bags' - it's not a good look, even the 'scaffolding' (ie underwired bras) that used to work wonders doesn't seem to help - and I know what you mean about any extra weight - it doesn't go on the boobs in fact it goes anywhere but there . . . I know that I need to get back into running to shift these extra pounds (and eat less too
) I used to run quite a bit before DD - but I also know that weight comes off my boobs first when I run, so there's really no hope for me
I love the fact that we all seem to be from the 'same mould' - I would love to see all the Starbucks Mums faces if a group of BW Mums turned up in Starbucks in our 'uniform' - I know who would be having the most fun tho
Love the theory that they are Nannies rather than Mums - otherwise where on earth do they get their time???
I have read a bit about Kelle Hampton before (someone posted the link about her story a while back) and she is truly stunning - and writes brilliantly. I remember seeing her pics of her just after the birth of her baby and thinking at the time that she didn't look like she'd given birth - maybe it's because she is a photographer that she makes sure that she looks good before she takes the pics - or maybe she spends a lot of time retouching . . . all I know is that I never looked like that before I had DD so it was never going to happen afterwards
Okay and now coming back to food chat . . . as far as salty foods are concerned I'm much more laid back than I used to be. Having said that DD is a lot older now - so it's taken me a while. I never add salt to our food when cooking (unless a recipe specifically asks for it) - the only thing I put salt on is chips when I buy them from a chippy which isn't a regular thing at all. I like to think that DD has a varied diet and that she gets most things in moderation . . . am trying so hard to make sure that she doesn't become fussy eater (my 12 yr old niece is a terrible eater) that I'd rather she had things now (even if they are a tad salty) - kwim?
And as for dinner refusal - again this is something I don't worry about anymore. On the few occasions when it has happened and DD has gone to bed without anything to eat (yes I am a cruel Mummy
) she hasn't slept any less or woken from hunger - so I figure that she can't have been that hungry in the first place. Sometimes I think she may not want what is put in front of her but I refuse to get into the habit of making her a different meal (give a toddler an inch and they will take a mile
) - nor will I let her go straight to yoghurt/fruit/whatever it is she requests because I think if she is allowed to do this once she will then think she can do it every time she doesn't fancy her tea. All I ask of her now is that she eats a bit of each thing on her plate (ie 1 carrot, 1 potato, 1 piece of meat) or X amount of spoonfuls if it's something like pasta & sauce, curry and rice, etc.
Bernie - you're a Yorkshirewoman and you don't drink tea? Shock horror!
I've found with both my two that once they reached the age of about 18 mothns they would onyl eat 1 good meal a day and just pick at the rest. Today DS2 ate a HUGE lunch then ate almost no dinner.
It is quite shocking isn't it LOL!!
I think the 1 big meal a day thing is quite interesting - I always wonder if DD would be better with her main meal at lunch time, but we've always tended to do a light lunch - think it's probably because that's how we were brought up!
At the end of the day I think that toddlers eat when they want to eat - and we spend too much time worrying about it LOL!!
So here's what Alice has been eating . . .
Thursday
B: cereal & milk (half shreddies half rice crispies), few CN cornflakes on the side, bit of milk to drink, bit of banana, smoothie
At CM
S: biscuit, water
L: noodles, sausages, yoghurt, milk
S: half a banana, water
S: small bun, juice
At home
D: bowl of pasta with home-made tomato sauce, chicken, olives and feta*, yoghurt, blueberries, cherries, biscuit
(*this is the same dinner that she'd refused the previous night - her reaction when she saw the plate today was 'WOW' - PMSL)
Friday
B: 2 x home-made banana & blueberry pancakes with yoghurt, honey & more blueberries on the side, smoothie
S: (at Gran's) packet of apple crisps, apple juice
L: (at Great Gran's) small tin of spaghetti and sausages, bit of salami, shared some of Gran's sausage roll & carrots, yoghurt & jelly pudding
S: 3 x yoghurt coated sesame snaps, flavoured water
D: parsnip & chickpea curry with pilau rice, yoghurt, few grapes, biscuit
Nicole - meant to say that although the CM and my Mum do let me know what Alice has eaten (CM fills out a sheet - Mum just tells me) I don't have any idea really of how big the portions are - that's why I don't stress too much if she refuses dinner cos she may have had a huge lunch.
