Slopsville – our baby weaning diary. Week Six.
What do kippers, papaya, Kitkats, mashed potato, tuna, mango, yoghurt, broccoli, Weetabix, toast, cheese, peaches, salmon, scrambled egg, Philadelphia, and chocolate Buttons have in common? No, that’s not my hangover diet (well, take away the fruit/veg, add a packet of Boasters and fourteen cups of tea and it is, actually), it’s a list of the foods seven-month-old Joe has tried in the past couple of weeks. I’m not...
Slopsville – Our Baby Weaning Diary. Week Five.
This week I’d been planning on writing about all the many and varied foods Joe has tried, but then we went away for a week and I found something else to write about… On the way home, we’d planned to stop and visit some friends and this meant we had to take the M25. Yes, I know. We got on to the M25. We saw a sign. There was a broken down vehicle and traffic was backed up from where we just got on… to where we...
Slopsville – Our Baby Weaning Diary. Week Four.
In Catherine Newman’s gorgeous book Waiting for Birdy (if you haven’t read it, get hold of a copy as soon as you feasibly can, seriously), she describes an occasion when her young son, Ben, choked on a “Lifesaver” (that’s a Polo to us Brits). She writes that Ben was less worried about choking and more that his mother would never give him a Lifesaver again. “Indeed,” she says, “I...
Slopsville – Our Baby Weaning Diary. Week Three.
I said I was going to write about cooking (sorry, to be completely truthful, that should be “cooking”) this week, didn’t I, but first an update. The pooing may be coming under control. Now we’re looking at once, maybe twice, a day and Joe hasn’t woken up dirty in the night for a few nights. He’s still waking up between 4 and 4.30am which is a pain, but whaddaya gonna do? I’ll tell you what his...
Slopsville – Our Baby Weaning Diary. Week Two.
This week I thought I’d write less about what I’m putting into Joe and more about what’s coming out. Because it’s been a terrible shock to the system. Mine, I mean, not his. Although presumably his too. You see, Joe has been pretty much exclusively breastfed for six months and, like many breastfed babies, has not bothered much with the pooing, going less than once a week. Apparently this is normal. So my...
Slopsville – Our Baby Weaning Diary. Week One.
I’ve read many times that one of the first signs of a baby being ready for solid food is when they watch your fork travelling from meal to mouth. My son, Joe, was doing that in hospital the day after he was born. After breastfeeding him (almost exclusively) for five months, I started to accept that I probably couldn’t put off weaning for much longer. I would never have imagined I would feel emotional about weaning,...