LADIES DUE SEPTEMBER 2015 :-)

Ps: what are you guys feeding your babies for lunch? or sending to school? I need ideas, please!

Hi TCS,

You remind me a lot of myself with my 1st baby, so many questions, worries, etc. Must say that the 2nd child is definitely much easier because you just tend to let things happen.

My 1st crawled at 13 months and walked (properly, no falling or crawling) at close to 17 months. My 2nd crawled at 11 months and walked (properly) at 13 months. I drove myself nuts with the 1st one, everybody else's babies walked long before mine. And this is the case with everything else too, sleeping and eating patterns, etc. Babies are different, you just find what works for you.

My little guy, for instance, has a mouth full of teeth but he still wants his food to be in a pretty fine consistency. Not Purity, but like the Woolies baby food. He won't have mince and rice, or veggies with a rougher texture. Won't eat pasta, but will have it if I blend it. He'll eat a WHOLE slice of white bread from crust to crust and he seems to swallow any type of biscuit without even chewing it...but food? No way. Just preference, nothing wrong but irritating to me because by this point I would like to feed him the same as the rest of the household. Mind you, my 4-year old ate hardly anything for the first 3 years of her life, so I suppose this is an improvement for us.

About the feeding, you'll find what's right for you. Neither one of my two kids ever held their own bottle. If it's not effort for you, then don't worry. I like holding the bottle, it's a bit of bonding time.

Dehan is currently on Nan 3, he gets a feed around 10am, 2pm, 7pm and 9:30pm. 150ml at a time. He sometimes wakes up for a bottle around 4am, but mostly sleeps from 7pm - 6am. When he wakes at 4am I always give him a dummy first, sometimes it helps and sometimes he's wide awake and needs a feed.

He eats quite a bit during the day, he's not overly mad about baby porridge (but he does like Weetbix!), he eats 2 x yogurts a day, a squish/purity for lunch, and various snacky things during the day. At night he has a good portion of home cooked veggies with chicken or redmeat, but in a finer texture. I want to give him a bigger lunch, but I have to put some thought into it because the nursery school doesn't provide it. He's a big boy, a purity is not sufficient (I think?). So, I think he often wakes up at 4am because of thirst and not hunger, but of course the little punk won't drink water or juice.

As for the Nido/Formula debate:

My daughter dropped all her feeds except her 7pm bottle (250ml) by the time she was 12 months. So she was on Nido for that night feed from 12 months. Nido is very protein rich, approx. 7g of protein per 250ml feed. So if your baby gets 4 or 5 bottles a day, that's a lot of protein (30g) for a small person. Nido is meant as a supplement feed, not as your primary formula.

Cows milk should be ok too, if you use something like full cream Ayreshire from Woolies. Tried it with #1 and she hated it, she ended up being on Nido until she was 3.5 years old, primarily because she was a poor eater and only weighed 13kg on her 4th birthday. And had a very difficult time weaning her off the bottle, won't go down that road again with #2! Haven't tried cow's milk with #2, but I'm not opposed to it.

How is his weight? I remember he was tiiiiiiny for so long, has he caught up a bit?

Any of the moms starting to think about a new pregnancy?

Hi Ladies. Glad to see everyone is well. My little is trying to walk. Takes a few steps then sits down and crawls. So hasn't quite gotten around to it yet. He is 13months tho. He crawled at 7ish months. He has 7 teeth. All popped up in about 2 weeks or so. It seems as tho his back is troubling as he bites everything at the back.

Ladies I need some help. So he still wakes up at night for milk. On average about 2 to 3 times. He is still drinks from a bottle. He wakes up at 6 amand goes down at 7am with a bottle. Doesn't drink a bottle during the day mostly but sometimes if he doesn't eat his lunch he has milk. In the evenings he goes down at 7:30pm with a bottle.
He drinks water or baby rooibos during the day from a cup with a straw. And he has a sippy cup.
Food recently is an issue as he started chewing and spitting. Eats some, chews and spits the rest.

My questions are:
I don't know when to switch him to formula from a cup instead.
He is on stage 3 of his formula which is from 12montha onwards. shud I be switching him to fresh cows milk as I've read by 12 months I should. I also read about Nido...?
Is giving him a bottle at bedtime bad? Do I stop it? I only do it so it fills him up to sleep well but he still wakes up to feed. Usually drinks about 140 to 170ml at a time.
I haven't trained him to hold his bottle himself. Is this bad??
I feel a little confused at the moment about these things.
Please help


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Hi ladies

Glad to see activity on the group.

Glad to hear from u DieSwartKat

Pheladi turned 1 on 26 September yoh so much has happened time really flies. She started crawling at 5 months teething at 7 months and walking at 8 months. She has 6 teeth now lol and she can say a few words like thank u oh and she can count to 3 lol. She is sleeping much better now. Wakes up once a night and we still breastfeeding

She has 2 200ML bottles during the day and breastfeeds at night but when I am around all day she only breastfeeds. She weighs 10.5kg. Thinking of taking her swimming lessons soon


How is everyone?

Hello!

Was thinking that we needed to do an "update" post and see how everyone's doing, you beat me to it TCS

We're doing so well, had an amazing first year. Dehan's been the easiest baby. He slept through (7pm - 6am) from 8 weeks and that lasted all through the 1st year. Except a few times when he didn't feel well, or the odd night when he's a bit restless.

He sat around 6 months, was a late crawler (11 months), and started walking 3 days after his 1st birthday. It took about a month but he's walking stronger every day, about 20 - 30 steps before he stops or loses his balance. Good eater, but didn't want to drink any water or juice until very recently. He gets 3 bottles a day of 150ml each. And weighs 10.90kg now. 10 teeth!

How's everyone else???

Hi ladies

How have you all been??? It's been a while..


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Hi mommies!

How is everyone doing? Have you moved to a different group?

Charl is turning 1 on Sunday!! Time flies at the speed of light!