Hey girls
Just said I would pop in and say hi - I have been reading on my phone but work is just hectic at the minute and I'm shattered in the evenings and DH and I try and get all the stuff we need to do around the house in the evenings also so as we can spend the time with Natasha at the weekends.
But I have missed posting but am enjoying keeping up with what every one is up to. I'm not going to try and catch up as I have there is just too much over the last few weeks.
Natasha is doing well, she is getting cuter by the day. Still no steps here but she is flying along holding onto the furniture and crawling and is into absolutely everything. She is copying more and more that we do and her latest things are putting her finger up to her lips and saying shhh and if you say hot, she will put her fingers up to her mouth and blow or if she has food put that up to her mouth and blow - She rocks from side to side like dancing for every bit of music she hears now and if you ask her to sing, she will hum and do her little dance too lol.
Regarding the Virgin guts - I honestly think it is more scare mongering. Cleck you have done fantastic with the BF and I love that this thread we all have our own ways and nobody is high and mighty because if they were I would have never come in here tbh.
I think any of you who have breast fed are brill and like you Booth felt really guilty that I couldn't - but I dont anymore I have to say. I had to make the choice to go back on the steriods when Natasha was born so as I wouldn't have a flare up of my arthritis and I think I definitely made the right decision for us - I was much more use to my baby by being mobile and able to care for her than to be BF and end up not able to even hold her and I honestly dont think it has done her any harm. She is now over 13 months and apart from the thrush in her mouth that she was born with and from the antibiotics they pumped into me in labour, she has only had 1 cold when she was 3 months old and it only lasted 2 days and she has had one viral throat thing that she had when she was about 8 months and the doc reckoned it was due to her teeth. (mind you I shouldn't speak too soon as she is very off the last few days and pulling at her ear, so she could be coming down with something now) - so all in all she is really really healthy and is thriving and she was definitely doesn't have a virginal gut as she was never breastfed. I did want to do the first few feeds myself before I had to go back on the meds but she didn't latch on at all and I dont know if you remember but I brought her to have cranial osteopathy when she was smaller due to the compression at the back of her head from being face out and stuck in my pelvis for 3 hours of pushing and then vacuum and forceps and the osteopath reckons she would have had an awful time trying to suck because of this anyway, we even had to change up the teeths in her bottles long before the time as she had trouble sucking on them too.
Sorry I dont remember everything to catch up on. The one thing I do remember is the discussion on what LO's eat. A typical day for us is.
Breakfast between 9 and 10 which is either 1 wheetabix, 3 tblsp of baby museli or readybrek with cows milk and then some fruit as finger food.
Dinner between 1 and 2 which is usually some sort of protein (chicken, beef, lentils, lamb, pork, fish) with potatoes or pasta and veg - if I can I chop it into bitsize pieces and she feeds herself or if it is fish or lentils I usually mash it up and spoon feed it to her. Then she has dessert which is usually a yogurt, an innocent smoothie stick, or some homemade rice pudding or custard with stewed fruit.
Tea between 5 and 6 which is something like homemade veggie burger or sardines with pasta or roasted veg or sweet potato which she feeds herself or it could be something like scrambled egg or beans that I spoon feed her and some toast which she feeds herself or else it could be a risotto or pot and veg dish which is spoon fed or sometimes I make breaded fish or chicken to get the protein into her if she is having a fussy day and hasn't ate much dinner.
Her dinner and tea are usually about 8 oz dishes full.
She doesn't have much snacks as she has big meals but if she does it is usually rice cakes, cheese, fruit, or she loves ellas kitchen bakey bites.
Drinks are cows milk in her beaker at breakfast (which she drinks very little of) and water or juice with her dinner and tea (which she drinks about half a beaker full with each meal) and she has a few sips during the day also and then a bottle before bed, which could range from 1oz to 8oz depending on her humour - I also give her a bottle if she wakes during the night and wont settle.
She is doing really well on feeding herself with her fingers and gets the majority of it in now and not everywhere else - she doesn't manage a spoon well at all though so we always feed her that and I try and get as much variety in as possible and so far apart from avocado there isn't anything that she doesn't like and has a good appetite, she does have some fussy days alright when her teeth are at her and she wont eat much.
Well other than work and housework and playing with little miss, we haven't been up to much - we are getting new wardrobes in our bedroom so have been sleeping in the spare room for the last two weeks and I can't wait to get back into our own bed. We were planning on doing the wardrobes next year but when I did my first aid course for work we got a dvd on child safety and it said that the biggest cause of poisoning in children was toiletries so we decided to get them done as our toiletries were on small open shelves that went from floor to ceiling and we didn't have anywhere up high to put them - so that scared the life out of me - these ones are all built in with sliding doors so Natasha wont be able to get near anything until she is old enought to understand it is not for drinking lol
Well I may run and get to bed as we had a very sleepless night last night so I should have been asleep hours ago. Glad you are all well. Xx
that having problems trying to feed the baby is the last thing any new mom needs!
And I felt bad because I'm reading it and than I googled it and felt even worse. It's so dumb. 
But I really hope I never come across as high and mighty. Which I'm sure I have though. 
Lily didn't poop for 8 days and our doctor was like "It's ok with a breastfed baby" but she was screaming in pain, so I gave her half of a childs suppository and 10 minutes later, full diaper 
