OK! So we had a bit of an unexpected week with some extra people around. But BG has coped well with the extra people and with some different foods (baguette, tuna mayo, I forget what else) but today we have a triumph.
After having a conversation with a lovely friend earlier in the week I bought BG some fishfingers - she had one the other night and did really well - but while I was in the supermarket I remembered vegetable fingers so I got some. I just gave her one for lunch and it went down really well! I had to take the end off (like a cigar!!) but after that she got on fine. The veg is lumpy/textured and she just nanged her way through it. I am very impressed. She also had half of one of those party sausage rolls. (I had some in the freezer so I thought I'd try it) There was a looooovely mess with that but it's all good. I need to write a book list and stuff for here, stuff I've been reading about parenting and food and other related things.
Sunny here, washing on the line.
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Monday, 16 February 2009
Sausages and other things...
The sausage seemed to go down very well actually. I had to peel the skin off - and she went after it like a banana. Wasn't interested in the smaller pieces of it that I cut up!! Tonight she had some (quite a lot) of a mixed vegetable puree on a spoon, and some pieces of satsuma.
I am wondering if we have a manifold problem with nights/feed and stuff. BG still has a tank up "dream feed" at about 11, and she still takes a significant amount at that feed (80-120 ml) and I'm wondering if we need to start to draw that back gradually until later on, when she gets to less milk and more food, it becomes "a mug of milk at bedtime" type stuff. I'm still having trouble getting her to take anything other than her bottle though, for anything. I need a doidy cup or two as she seems to get the idea of a regular cup (I've done it a couple of times with a regular plastic beaker) although she does spit the water out again.
After sleeping through from 7.30-late feed and late feed - about 7, she started waking at about 5am soon before 6 months. She has been rattling at night for nearly two months now, and while I think some of it is to do with teething and physical discomfort (was about when we started solids, so think her tummy was just getting used to it all) I don't know what the rest is. I am a PCOS mama, and I get very, very tired, very, very fast. So one full night of sleep per week (which is the current average) isn't really enough. I feel guilty saying that, but it is true. Even more than my life ever was before, this mother existence is dichotomy personified.
Hey ho.... We're working on it. A day at a time.... :)
I am wondering if we have a manifold problem with nights/feed and stuff. BG still has a tank up "dream feed" at about 11, and she still takes a significant amount at that feed (80-120 ml) and I'm wondering if we need to start to draw that back gradually until later on, when she gets to less milk and more food, it becomes "a mug of milk at bedtime" type stuff. I'm still having trouble getting her to take anything other than her bottle though, for anything. I need a doidy cup or two as she seems to get the idea of a regular cup (I've done it a couple of times with a regular plastic beaker) although she does spit the water out again.
After sleeping through from 7.30-late feed and late feed - about 7, she started waking at about 5am soon before 6 months. She has been rattling at night for nearly two months now, and while I think some of it is to do with teething and physical discomfort (was about when we started solids, so think her tummy was just getting used to it all) I don't know what the rest is. I am a PCOS mama, and I get very, very tired, very, very fast. So one full night of sleep per week (which is the current average) isn't really enough. I feel guilty saying that, but it is true. Even more than my life ever was before, this mother existence is dichotomy personified.
Hey ho.... We're working on it. A day at a time.... :)
Monday morning...
Mondays are usually frighteningly domestic at the little house and today is no exception. I'm a bit of a flybaby (sometimes) so beds get changed on Mondays, and it's fine so I want to hang stuff out.
BG is bunged up again, which is deeply annoying. I am wondering if we're all passing something back and forth here. Nasosal is helping LOTS but she's very tired and coughing. At the moment, is lying on her back in her new crib playing with her hands and waving at the dangly animals on her mobile.
Food for the day:
Daddy gave her some plum at breakfast but she was busy downstairs so mainly smeared it all over her face, the high chair and her bib. The washing machine is currently full of mucky bibs and tea towels!!
Last night we had sausages so I'm going to give her one for lunch - partly cut up into pieces, partly as a whole chunk. If she can handle banana...... I'm still not totally confident to let her loose with plates but if I put stuff into her highchair tray she is happy to pick it out from there, so we'll roll with that for now. I also need some plastic plates for her.
Still having difficulties with transitioning her to her new bed...advice gratefully received.
BG is bunged up again, which is deeply annoying. I am wondering if we're all passing something back and forth here. Nasosal is helping LOTS but she's very tired and coughing. At the moment, is lying on her back in her new crib playing with her hands and waving at the dangly animals on her mobile.
Food for the day:
Daddy gave her some plum at breakfast but she was busy downstairs so mainly smeared it all over her face, the high chair and her bib. The washing machine is currently full of mucky bibs and tea towels!!
Last night we had sausages so I'm going to give her one for lunch - partly cut up into pieces, partly as a whole chunk. If she can handle banana...... I'm still not totally confident to let her loose with plates but if I put stuff into her highchair tray she is happy to pick it out from there, so we'll roll with that for now. I also need some plastic plates for her.
Still having difficulties with transitioning her to her new bed...advice gratefully received.
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Hello Everyone :)
This blog is going to be about our adventures with the Baby Girl.
As of today, she's almost 8 months old, into bananas and wiggling.
I pump breastmilk.
We are experimenting with Baby Led Weaning (and will do more when we get braver!) and it's going pretty well.
We play with our friends, go to Rhymetime and Edward Bear Club and hope to start doing baby signing soon.
Come and join our adventures.
This blog is going to be about our adventures with the Baby Girl.
As of today, she's almost 8 months old, into bananas and wiggling.
I pump breastmilk.
We are experimenting with Baby Led Weaning (and will do more when we get braver!) and it's going pretty well.
We play with our friends, go to Rhymetime and Edward Bear Club and hope to start doing baby signing soon.
Come and join our adventures.
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