The day of Gastrostomy
I’m sat waiting to go and get my baby from recovery, her surgery went well and she is now minus one nasalgastric tube! It’s horrible not being with her and although it’s all been matter of fact for us, we’ve… Read more ›
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Operation Fatten-Up Our CP Baby Success
A month ago we started adding a few mls of good fats to W’s diet, given like medicine before her Mummy milk and a splash in her blends. Result after 3 weeks? 370g weight gain! Spoke to her dietician today… Read more ›
Weekly Blended Diet Food Diary for 8 month old W
Tuesday: Pancake with banana : 1 small pancake (organic flour, egg, milk) with 1/2 a banana made up to 100ml with breastmilk between 8:30am – 10:30am (physio morning so breakfast in two sittings) 100ml breastmilk @ 12pm 50ml breastmilk @… Read more ›
Weaning a tubie on a blended diet : high calorie breakfast blend
Need a few more calories per ml? Try cooked egg yolks, avocado and full fat Greek yoghurt. Oh yeh. All whizzed up with Mummy milk. If W hasn’t put weight on at the next weigh in, I’ll be gobsmacked!
Weight gain in cerebral palsy babies
At around 2 months old, Willow started spasming and we knew she had cerebral palsy. Around the same time her weight-gain velocity also started to slow down. At 4 months old, we had the cp diagnosis, her weight gain was… Read more ›
Weaning on a Blender Diet : week 2
Salmon pasta for lunch, thought it made more sense to post the pre-blends of our week in one post, so after this one I’ll post a weekly post of that week’s blends. It was an interesting first week with W… Read more ›
Weaning on a Blended Diet Week 1 : Chicken Noodle Soup
Our little tubie had everything we had tonight, chicken, mushroom, chicken stock and two noodles all whizzed up with breastmilk in our new replacement hand blender (this Kenwood one, pretty impressed on first impressions!). She also had bonus lunch of… Read more ›
Weaning on a Blended Diet Week 1 : Banana & Yoghurt
I get the feeling we might start having more smoothies for breakfast in this house 🙂 W is having banana and yoghurt mixed with breastmilk and we’re having banana smoothies. She seems to be falling into a trend of one… Read more ›
Weaning on a Blended Diet Week 1 : Carrot, Fennel and Chicken Stock
Tonight’s dinner is slow-cooked chicken with carrot, fennel, swede and leek, W had a slice of carrot and a bit of fennel in a tablespoon of the chicken stock blended with mummy milk. W was weighed today and she hasn’t… Read more ›
Weaning a Tubie onto a Blended Diet Week 1 : Salmon, Watercress and Swede
Tonight’s blend is salmon, watercress and the other half of last night’s swede. 1tsp ish lump of cooked salmon fillet with a small sprig of watercress and around half a teaspoon of mashed swede whizzed up in Mummy milk. No… Read more ›