triumph

Weaning is a business I tell ya. It starts off easy as bub refuses mummy milk after lunch and dinner as he too full from his lentil patties or tuna pasta, but breakfast and afternoon tea are a different story.

I tried for weeks if not months during this winter to get Eden to drink formula for afternoon tea. The first step was to get him to drink mummy milk regularly from a sipper cup. We got as far as 50% formula and 50% mummy milk. Then he got that awful fever and refused anything but Mum. I was getting OOS from all the hand pumping anyway so I was glad of the break. When he was well again, after another few goes I gave up trying. There had to be another way.

I did not want him drinking juice because of the sugar and he doesn't drink water in huge volumes so I hit on the idea of tomato juice. He loves it - I just get an icecube of tomato paste and add half a cup of water to it. This doesn't really have the nutrience of milk or formula though and is pretty messy and, well, - red!

Around the same time he also decided he didn't mind drinking fresh cows milk but I had an even better plan: I food processed banana chips until they were powder and put a tablespoon of it in with the formula = success! Banana smoothy! And do you know what is even better? After one week of that - he now drinks formula straight. The psychology of it...

Breakfast is another story. You see another side of Eden at breakfast - Mr Grumpy. I am lucky if he even finishes his cereal before he is crying for mummy milk. It will help after day light saving begins and he is not waking up so early. By the time I am bothered to get up to him - he is totally grumpified - kicking the wall and all. He is not so bad if he sleeps longer and I go and get him as soon as he wakes.