Raising Independent Children
Our son is 32 months old today and what a day, today he told me with a beautiful smile while I was pumping that he has cows milk now, not Mummy milk. He shares our bed and we ‘pander’ to… Read more ›
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 ›
Chickens at last!
I’ve always wanted chickens, I don’t remember not wanting chickens. Once Chops was born it became even more important, growing up with chickens would be an altogether different education that I wanted for him. Yesterday, we picked up our first… Read more ›
Courgette, lentil & chicken ‘cake’
I got leftover chicken, a courgette and a tomato out for lunch, then Chops declared he wanted cake for lunch! Ok, son, cake it is. Here’s my chicken, courgette and lentil cake! Ingredients: 200g butter 100g Puy lentils, cooked Leftover… 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 ›
The Tiniest Things that Make You Cry as the Mama of a baby with special needs
I’m happily browsing Facebook when I come across a beautiful image shared by many friends of a woman carrying a smiling baby on her back, it’s a few beautiful words about nurturing your child by carrying them always in your… Read more ›
Sticky Stuff game
I write this as Chops is hunting the house for things to try and stick on the sticky stuff (contact paper stuck to the window with sellotape). “oh sticky stuff, oh sticky stuff, what will we stick to you next”… Read more ›