12 months old...

"Leslie" wrote

My William was 98% breastfed until he was almost two. No kidding. He
would not eat--even try--anything. At 5, he is still very, very picky.
I'm embarrassed to say how limited his menu is.

But you know what? Just over the past month he has finally decided to
try new things! He tried ramen today. Yesterday he declared he loved
dirty rice. And then he said, "I am going to keep trying new things
until I loved every food in the whole world!"

That's so cute!!

So there is hope. :-) And in the meantime, bf meets his nutritional
needs! William has always been very healthy, btw, growing well and
never getting sick.

Leslie

rj

Chookie wrote:



He hasn't eaten much more than 2 or 3 teaspoons of ANYTHING for
breakfast for the last few weeks.


Finger food?

Tried toast, with or without vegemite or jam... he'd eat less than a 1/4
of a piece of toast. Today he had a small bite. I cut them up into
'soldiers' or tiny squares, either way, they end up on the floor after
the first few bites. He's not really a banana lover, and apple and pear
are hit and miss, too.

Any other food suggestions??

Thanks

Jo

Rebecca Jo wrote:
"Notchalk" wrote:


Hi All, just a quick update:

Will turned 1 on Saturday - a great day was had by all... I saw 05:29 and
remembered:

12 months ago today I felt the pain, joy, power and wonder of becoming a
mother.

Our breastfeeding relationship is still going strong - luckily, because
Will has gone totally off his solids (again). It's starting to really
worry/frustrate me. Do I even bother offering food? It just frustrates us
both, and it ends up being thrown on the floor (he does it, not me...) He
hasn't eaten much more than 2 or 3 teaspoons of ANYTHING for breakfast for
the last few weeks. Lunch is hit and miss, and dinner is usually OK.. but
not the last few days. Perhaps he is coming down with something. I don't
want to force the issue, as that could cause more problems, but I also
don't want to miss any opportunity to get some food into him!!

Other than that, I'm working one or two days a week, and DH watches him.
It's good for them to have time together.

This whole lackofsleep/parenthood/breastfeeding thing has done nothing for
my libido though, and our relationship is a little less cuddly than before
(perhaps as a result?) It's like living with a brother... which is sad.
I'm sure it will improve though.

Will is still almost walkign - he's just a bit of a chicken. He is trying
SO hard to talk "buckem buckem duckem duckem"... he can say 'bump' and
'du' (dummy) and mumma and dada, etc. He can say 'woo' (woof) and 'dog'
too

Anyway, that's pretty much it, I think. Overall I'm having fun, but I
wouldn't mind a good night's sleep (just one 10 hour stint would be
wonderful!) Right now I'm too exhausted to care about much of anything -
sad isn't it?

Jo (Breastfeeding a toddler!)


Aww, happy birthday to Will!

I wouldn't worry too much about the not eating food thing. I'd just keep
offering it & giving it to him when he wants it. Alexander has days when he
doesn't want anything either but then he also has days when he eats a whole
jar for lunch and half of one for dinner.

Do you give him any snack type foods? Alexander really loves these little
freeze dried apple chunks.
http://www.gerber.com/toddlersite?tm...l&tms promo=2

He'll eat that even if he isn't in the mood for regular baby food.

Congratulations on breastfeeding this far.

rj



Yeah, I always keep a ziplock bag of snacky foods in the nappy bag for
outings, just to sneak more food into his day. We have some cheddar
crackers specifically for babies, and he likes water crackers, and
soy/linseed crackers (occasionally). We also have some quick-dried
apple pieces that are organic, but they end up on the floor after they
have been sucked to mush.

Thanks for the congrats

Jo

Larissa wrote:
That year has gone fast, probably not for you though.

My toddlers were always difficult to get to eat anything, perhaps he is
teething? That does not help.
He very well could be - waiting on his 8th tooth to make up the top and
bottom 4.


The sleeping/libido thing, it does get better, but it does take a
while. Any chance you could leave Will for at least a couple of hours
early in the evening so you could go out for an early dinner/ get
takeaway/snuggle and still get to bed relatively early?

It is a possibility, but I hate leaving him at his most ratty/intensive
time of day. DH is away for 2 weeks atm, so perhaps things will be
better when he gets back - absence and fondness and all that.


I remember the exhaustion of continued broken sleep, it is very cruel.

It can be, yes. And to top it all off, my Mum suffers from Sleep
Apnoea, so she's falling asleep all the time. She'll come over for a
cuppa, and fall asleep at the table - I'm so jealous!!

Happy Birthday Will!

ThankyoU!

Jo

Larissa
mum to
DD feb 99
DS mar 01
DD2 dec 03

Notchalk wrote:
Chookie wrote:



He hasn't eaten much more than 2 or 3 teaspoons of ANYTHING for
breakfast for the last few weeks.


Finger food?

Tried toast, with or without vegemite or jam... he'd eat less than a 1/4
of a piece of toast. Today he had a small bite. I cut them up into
'soldiers' or tiny squares, either way, they end up on the floor after
the first few bites. He's not really a banana lover, and apple and pear
are hit and miss, too.

Any other food suggestions??

Happy Birthday Will!

I sympathise utterly with the sleep/food stuff and the issues that come
with it. William would try anything until he started getting vomiting
episodes (we are looking at eggs as the culprit atm) and now is
reluctant to stray from cereals (weetabox, ready brek, porridge),
bananas, yoghurt, cheese, pasta & sauce, and pears!. And we are
rejoiceful if we get to sleep from 11pm to 5am all in one go.

Are you still avoiding dairy or will he eat cheese chunks? Apart from
the above, William also like raisins, rice cakes, breadsticks, cheese
on toast, ripe nectarines and strawberries.He's also a fan of the
occasional bowl of banana and custard. Mind you, I think if I gave him
anything with banana in it he'd eat it. He has only just started to
get the idea that the food in his hand can go in his mouth, rather than
just on the floor. Though at the moment he only eats the first few bits
then decide to practice for the food throwing olympics with the rest!.

I'm sure you'll get some good ideas here.

Jeni

Notchalk ) writes:
This whole lackofsleep/parenthood/breastfeeding thing has done nothing
for my libido though, and our relationship is a little less cuddly than
before (perhaps as a result?) It's like living with a brother... which
is sad. I'm sure it will improve though.

Lack of sleep affects libido. A more serious lack of sleep
affects your ability to laugh at jokes.

Things that can help: nursing lying down at night; making
the nighttime sleep long, e.g. 10 to 12 hours of broken sleep;
taking a nap during the day or at least lying down for a quiet
rest with eyes closed for 10 minutes; getting out in daylight
each day. Ideal time for a nap
for me is around 12:30 to 2:30. If you don't get enough
sleep, you have more of a need for time alone (which is
of course hard to get, too). So trying to schedule some
time alone before cuddling can help. Again, even only
10 minutes can help, though a lot more is better.

"Notchalk" wrote

Any other food suggestions??


Will he eat yoghurt? I've started buying the pots of fruit puree and adding
them to natural yoghurt for DS. He's also pretty fond of Liga rusks and
cheese (yesterday's"dinner" was 2 babybel cheeses and a couple of peas and
sweetcorn).

Is there even one meal a day where he'll eat well? DS will nearly always
eat a good breakfast (porridge/fruit/Daddy's toast...) so I don't worry if
he only picks at food the rest of the day.

I can't believe our boys are 1 already! Where did that year go?

Jean

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I can leave will for 8 hours to go to work and he takes no breastmilk in
that time, so I know I could leave him with my sister or my niece. But
that's all so very 'planned' IYKWIM?

but you don't actually have to have the sex at that time, that is when you
make time for you and each other and your relationship and if it happens, it
happens, but if it doesn't, it doesn't, but it dramatically increases the
chances of it happening withint the next few days.

I do think it can still be at least partially down to hormones, presumably
from breastfeeding rather than having had a baby a year ago, I know I would
have said the same around DS's first birthday and I know that I didn't
conciously do anything, but within 3-4 months it was absolutely normal as I
remember the fun we had concieving Ada, I was rather disapointed to concieve
first try.

Cheers

Anne

Tried toast, with or without vegemite or jam... he'd eat less than a 1/4
of a piece of toast. Today he had a small bite. I cut them up into
'soldiers' or tiny squares, either way, they end up on the floor after the
first few bites. He's not really a banana lover, and apple and pear are
hit and miss, too.

Any other food suggestions??

bread sticks rather than toast, ham, cheese, other vegetables softened, such
as carrots of broccoli, pieces of sausage, erm, trying to think what we
give, erm, can't think of anything else right now.

Someone told me, or maybe I read somewhere that it takes 60 tries to accept
a new taste, I can't believe it is that many, but DS really illustrated it
for us, by continually asking for camenbert eating it and spitting it out,
every time he asked, I'd say, but last time you didn;t like it, but give him
a small piece and then agter 10-20 times, he ate the piece and asked for
more. So whilst I wouldn't continually offer the same food day after day,
taking carrots as our example, suppose you have cooked them as part of a
main meal and on day 1 he appears to dislike them, that doesn't mean you
don't offer when you have carrots again a few days later, or even if you end
up reheating for lunch the next day. We love carrots so we have them quite a
lot, Ada has gone from refusing them, to sometimes taking them sometimes
not, I suspect she'll move on to happily eating them within a month or so.

Cheers

Anne

Catherine Woodgold wrote:
Notchalk ) writes:

This whole lackofsleep/parenthood/breastfeeding thing has done nothing
for my libido though, and our relationship is a little less cuddly than
before (perhaps as a result?) It's like living with a brother... which
is sad. I'm sure it will improve though.


Lack of sleep affects libido. A more serious lack of sleep
affects your ability to laugh at jokes.


Oh yes, that is very true, too.

Things that can help: nursing lying down at night; making
the nighttime sleep long, e.g. 10 to 12 hours of broken sleep;
taking a nap during the day or at least lying down for a quiet
rest with eyes closed for 10 minutes; getting out in daylight
each day. Ideal time for a nap
for me is around 12:30 to 2:30. If you don't get enough
sleep, you have more of a need for time alone (which is
of course hard to get, too). So trying to schedule some
time alone before cuddling can help. Again, even only
10 minutes can help, though a lot more is better.

We used to BF lying down - but that was when we co-slept. We tried
returning Will to the cot again after a feed last week, and it has
actually improved his sleeping this time 'round... so we're sticking to
that. The feed only takes about 5 min now and I sit up in bed with my
eyes closed. When I realise he's not sucking anymore he's back in his
cot

I do try to nap a few times a week, but his nap lengths are so
unpredictable, that sometimes I don't bother because I HATE being woken
up... I'd rather not sleep at all.

I like the time alone before cuddling thing - will definitely give that
a go.

ThankyoU

Jo