First solid foods for babies

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:34:40 GMT, Mogget
wrote:

In message , jamie
writes
jk wrote:

The latest reports say to breast feed as long as a year.

But were the reports written by women with babies who'd grown
teeth?

delurk

AIUI, the WHO recommends breastfeeding for two years.

Teeth are not a problem if the baby is latched on correctly. Trust me
on this. Froggie has twelve teeth, I am still (just about) nursing at
19 months, and the least of my problems is her existing teeth.

/delurk

Hiya, Bint! Nice to see you again.

I'm glad little Froggie is still going strong after the effort you had
to put in to get her nursing again.

Did you know I managed to break my StallZilla? After all those years
and all that effort, it turns out that a large part of my problem was
poor sleep. I was diagnosed with mild-to-moderate Obstructive Sleep
Apnoea earlier this year. Once I'd raised the head of the bed
(initially with a wedge-shaped pillow, now with bricks under the legs
since Himself decided it would help him too) I started sleeping better
and the weight began dropping off without any trouble and without any
more changes to diet or exercise patterns. I was losing on average 1
kg per week for the next 3 months. It was like a miracle - until my
Family Soap Opera got going with a vengeance, which killed my sleep
patterns again.

The Family Soap Opera (suicide, murder, kidnap and a seriously broken
limb, all in the space of 2 months!) left me pretty depressed but
unable to sleep. I'm currently on antidepressants which are going to
make loss harder - but I've proved (AT LAST) I can do it and I will do
it again.

Aramanth

Stan Marks wrote in message ...
Hello, all...

Our little boy is six months old and appears ready for solid foods. (He
has been exclusively breast-fed until now.)

My son started eating chicken at about 7-1/2 months (about 6 months if
he'd been full term). Also, at 6 months their foetal hemoglobin has
nearly all been replaced by the adult variety, so spinach is good,
especially cheesy spinach. A great thing for little ones is goat
cheeses. They are much healthier and easier to digest that cow
cheeses because of their fatty acid profile. Carrots are great too.

TIA,

Stan Marks

--Bryan

In message , revek
writes
Mogget generously shared with us this little ditty:
In message , revek
writes

Hi revek. How you doing?

Working *three* jobs. Stressed some.

Gosh. I'll bet.

Nice to see you again. Hope you will stay around for a while.

Well. I bin lurking for a while, reading the occasional thread, but I
don't really have much to say any more.

Not even to friends?

Not really. Don't take that the wrong way. It's just I didn't want to
add to the noise of the group, having nothing to say on the subject of
low carb but "butch up and do it", no interest in salving the feelings
of folks who think that a loss of a pound a week is too slow, and zero
sympathy whatsoever for anyone whose stall has lasted less than a year
or two.

If I could manage witty repartee like, say, Carmen, then I might feel
differently, but I know I'm a bit of a lamer when it comes to dull
posts.

How are *you* doing? Last I heard from you,
you were having trouble-- couldn't seem to eat much of anything. Things
get better?

Ah well. Still struggling. I just detest eating low carb these days.
All too often I cook myself a bit of lamb or pork or whatever, then when
I try to eat it, my stomach turns and I just can't.

Seems my staple food these days is goat's milk. I love cocoa made with
half a tsp of cocoa powder (unsweetened - not that abomination with
sugar added) & hot goat's milk. It's so rich & filling that I don't
feel much need to bother with a solid meal.

I made a useful discovery a while back, though. Seems that when I have
cravings for chocolate (and I do, a LOT), it's not a craving for
chocolate, it's a craving for cow's milk. One time I ate a chunk of
brie and managed to keep off the chocolate, and found that it had hit
the spot. Next time I had the cravings, I had some plain chocolate (no
milk, but plenty of sugar). It didn't satisfy the need at all. So that
was good; that's enabled me to stop scoffing sugar. Having said that,
cow's milk is SO bad for me that I'm not sure whether it's worse for me
to eat the cheese or the sugar.

Someone's bound to shout at me for eating sugar. Fair enough; but as
any other mother of a baby knows, there are times when you are so far
beyond exhausted that you are out the other side. You simply don't have
the option to stop and rest, and it's only sugar that keeps you going.

How about that wonderful mate of yours? How's he doing
these days?

He's as lovely as ever. STILL haven't got wedding pics sorted out.
Will do one day, I promise :-)
--
Mogget, the Churl in the Puce Greatcoat

In message , Aramanth Dawe
writes

Hiya, Bint! Nice to see you again.

Hey there Aramanth. You too :-)

I'm glad little Froggie is still going strong after the effort you had
to put in to get her nursing again.

Thanks. It took a long, long time, but it was well worth the effort.
My little Froggiegirl is tall, lean, strong, superhealthy, and
beautiful.

Did you know I managed to break my StallZilla?

Ooooo!

After all those years
and all that effort, it turns out that a large part of my problem was
poor sleep. I was diagnosed with mild-to-moderate Obstructive Sleep
Apnoea earlier this year. Once I'd raised the head of the bed
(initially with a wedge-shaped pillow, now with bricks under the legs
since Himself decided it would help him too) I started sleeping better
and the weight began dropping off without any trouble and without any
more changes to diet or exercise patterns. I was losing on average 1
kg per week for the next 3 months.

Wow.

What is sleep apnoea? What are the symptoms? How did you find out? And
what on earth is the connection between sleep and fat?

Last time I was around, you'd got your T2 diagnosis (boo, hiss) and the
metformin had shed some pounds for you but then IIRC it had stopped
again.

Right now I'm hot on the trail of something that just might be another
piece of the jigsaw. In a couple of days I should have finished reading
the book, then I'll have a clearer idea. Do you remember that all along
I've been saying "it's my adrenals, it's my adrenals, it's my adrenals"?
Looks like I was right.... question is, can I do anything about it?
Will report back when I have more info.

It was like a miracle - until my
Family Soap Opera got going with a vengeance, which killed my sleep
patterns again.
The Family Soap Opera (suicide, murder, kidnap and a seriously broken
limb, all in the space of 2 months!)

Ye gods. Get yourself a better scriptwriter g

googles Yep, I'd say that looks like a pretty bad ride.

You mentioned diazepam. I've just been on it, 2mg three times a day,
for the past couple of weeks, because of the most agonising,
excruciating, hellish back pains. Well, that and voltarol and
paracetamol. Yes it made me very, very tired and sleepy, but I had no
difficulty whatsoever coming off it - and I generally have quite an
addictive personality, for whatever reason. Over a couple of days, as
the diazepam left my system, I just gradually got less sleepy. So I
would say, if this isn't way too out of date, take it. I don't think
short term use is a problem.

left me pretty depressed but
unable to sleep. I'm currently on antidepressants which are going to
make loss harder - but I've proved (AT LAST) I can do it and I will do
it again.

What are you on, may I ask? I'm on 100mg sertraline (aka Zoloft,
Lustral) and it's been fairly miraculous. It's possibly the first time
in my life I haven't been depressed. I was doing so well that a couple
of months ago I decided to halve my dose. I did NOT get away with it -
had to up it again pretty sharpish.

Some antidepressants disrupt sleep (useful for those depressives whose
depression takes the form of extreme sleepiness) and others encourage
sleep (useful for our type). Please check you've got the right kind!

{{{{{Aramanth}}}}}
--
Mogget, the Churl in the Puce Greatcoat

In message , Aramanth Dawe
writes

Hiya, Bint! Nice to see you again.

Hey there Aramanth. You too :-)

I'm glad little Froggie is still going strong after the effort you had
to put in to get her nursing again.

Thanks. It took a long, long time, but it was well worth the effort.
My little Froggiegirl is tall, lean, strong, superhealthy, and
beautiful.

Did you know I managed to break my StallZilla?

Ooooo!

After all those years
and all that effort, it turns out that a large part of my problem was
poor sleep. I was diagnosed with mild-to-moderate Obstructive Sleep
Apnoea earlier this year. Once I'd raised the head of the bed
(initially with a wedge-shaped pillow, now with bricks under the legs
since Himself decided it would help him too) I started sleeping better
and the weight began dropping off without any trouble and without any
more changes to diet or exercise patterns. I was losing on average 1
kg per week for the next 3 months.

Wow.

What is sleep apnoea? What are the symptoms? How did you find out? And
what on earth is the connection between sleep and fat?

Last time I was around, you'd got your T2 diagnosis (boo, hiss) and the
metformin had shed some pounds for you but then IIRC it had stopped
again.

Right now I'm hot on the trail of something that just might be another
piece of the jigsaw. In a couple of days I should have finished reading
the book, then I'll have a clearer idea. Do you remember that all along
I've been saying "it's my adrenals, it's my adrenals, it's my adrenals"?
Looks like I was right.... question is, can I do anything about it?
Will report back when I have more info.

It was like a miracle - until my
Family Soap Opera got going with a vengeance, which killed my sleep
patterns again.
The Family Soap Opera (suicide, murder, kidnap and a seriously broken
limb, all in the space of 2 months!)

Ye gods. Get yourself a better scriptwriter g

googles Yep, I'd say that looks like a pretty bad ride.

You mentioned diazepam. I've just been on it, 2mg three times a day,
for the past couple of weeks, because of the most agonising,
excruciating, hellish back pains. Well, that and voltarol and
paracetamol. Yes it made me very, very tired and sleepy, but I had no
difficulty whatsoever coming off it - and I generally have quite an
addictive personality, for whatever reason. Over a couple of days, as
the diazepam left my system, I just gradually got less sleepy. So I
would say, if this isn't way too out of date, take it. I don't think
short term use is a problem.

left me pretty depressed but
unable to sleep. I'm currently on antidepressants which are going to
make loss harder - but I've proved (AT LAST) I can do it and I will do
it again.

What are you on, may I ask? I'm on 100mg sertraline (aka Zoloft,
Lustral) and it's been fairly miraculous. It's possibly the first time
in my life I haven't been depressed. I was doing so well that a couple
of months ago I decided to halve my dose. I did NOT get away with it -
had to up it again pretty sharpish.

Some antidepressants disrupt sleep (useful for those depressives whose
depression takes the form of extreme sleepiness) and others encourage
sleep (useful for our type). Please check you've got the right kind!

{{{{{Aramanth}}}}}
--
Mogget, the Churl in the Puce Greatcoat

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:40:06 GMT, Mogget
wrote:

In message , Aramanth Dawe
writes

Hiya, Bint! Nice to see you again.

Hey there Aramanth. You too :-)

I'm glad little Froggie is still going strong after the effort you had
to put in to get her nursing again.

Thanks. It took a long, long time, but it was well worth the effort.
My little Froggiegirl is tall, lean, strong, superhealthy, and
beautiful.

My girls are like that too - tall, lean, strong, healthy, beautiful.
And SMART! Reading ahead of their ages, maths ahead of their ages,
all-round nice kids to be around according to their school reports.
Can you believe they're 8 and 9 years old now!

Did you know I managed to break my StallZilla?

Ooooo!

After all those years
and all that effort, it turns out that a large part of my problem was
poor sleep. I was diagnosed with mild-to-moderate Obstructive Sleep
Apnoea earlier this year. Once I'd raised the head of the bed
(initially with a wedge-shaped pillow, now with bricks under the legs
since Himself decided it would help him too) I started sleeping better
and the weight began dropping off without any trouble and without any
more changes to diet or exercise patterns. I was losing on average 1
kg per week for the next 3 months.

Wow.

What is sleep apnoea? What are the symptoms? How did you find out? And
what on earth is the connection between sleep and fat?

Snoring. Heavy, heavy snoring where you literally stop breathing
hundreds of times a night. I knew I snored, have done so ever since I
was about 10 or thereabouts (that is, right after I got put on the
meds that started me on the weight gain in the first place!) but
no-one had ever put the pieces together.

Then, going over family history earlier this year with my consultant
he asked about my mother, who died of a heart attack aged 59 and was
also an obese heavy snorer. When he heard this, he sent me for a
Sleep Study. I was wired up six ways from Sunday (it was pretty
darned uncomfortable) but it proved that my snoring was more than just
a nuisance. It was, literally, a life-threatening condition that can
increase (dramatically) insulin resistance, is often implicated in
diabetes, hypertension, early death from heart attack and stroke.

He had me raise the head end of my bed. My apnoea is not QUITE bad
enough that I need an expensive CPAP machine to help me continue
breathing at night, but I needed some help. Raising the head of the
bed keeps my throat more open, the snoring diminished and my sleep
became more refreshing. As that happened, the insulin resistance
reduced and the weight started dropping off, with no change to diet
and exercise habits.

I always said I was doing 'all the right things' but there was
something more that was stopping the loss. This proved it!

Last time I was around, you'd got your T2 diagnosis (boo, hiss) and the
metformin had shed some pounds for you but then IIRC it had stopped
again.

I'm still on the metformin, and the loss from that stopped pretty
sharply. The Apnoea-treatment losses continued until my sleep was
disturbed again, so I'm hopeful that once I get beyond the grief
there's nothing stopping the losses from starting again.

Right now I'm hot on the trail of something that just might be another
piece of the jigsaw. In a couple of days I should have finished reading
the book, then I'll have a clearer idea. Do you remember that all along
I've been saying "it's my adrenals, it's my adrenals, it's my adrenals"?
Looks like I was right.... question is, can I do anything about it?
Will report back when I have more info.

I do hope so. One of the women on my other list has been going
through the same journey - only it took for her adrenals to be
literally burned out for medicos to listen to her. It's been a LONG
and tough road to get back on her feet, but she's getting there,
finally. She has to travel from France (where her family live right
now) to England (she's Scots by birth) to get treatment, though which
is tough.

It was like a miracle - until my
Family Soap Opera got going with a vengeance, which killed my sleep
patterns again.
The Family Soap Opera (suicide, murder, kidnap and a seriously broken
limb, all in the space of 2 months!)

Ye gods. Get yourself a better scriptwriter g

Yeah g. Know where I can get one?

googles Yep, I'd say that looks like a pretty bad ride.

It has been. Really tough. Still, we've gone an entire 2 weeks with
no new serious dramas which feels almost disturbing!

You mentioned diazepam. I've just been on it, 2mg three times a day,
for the past couple of weeks, because of the most agonising,
excruciating, hellish back pains. Well, that and voltarol and
paracetamol. Yes it made me very, very tired and sleepy, but I had no
difficulty whatsoever coming off it - and I generally have quite an
addictive personality, for whatever reason. Over a couple of days, as
the diazepam left my system, I just gradually got less sleepy. So I
would say, if this isn't way too out of date, take it. I don't think
short term use is a problem.

I'm glad you found it easy to come off. With my history I was
terrified of it, and what was worse I became very tolerant to it very
quickly. It took less than a week for it to have absolutely no effect
on either my disturbed sleep or my anxiety levels. I didn't see the
point of taking it when this happened.

left me pretty depressed but
unable to sleep. I'm currently on antidepressants which are going to
make loss harder - but I've proved (AT LAST) I can do it and I will do
it again.

What are you on, may I ask? I'm on 100mg sertraline (aka Zoloft,
Lustral) and it's been fairly miraculous. It's possibly the first time
in my life I haven't been depressed. I was doing so well that a couple
of months ago I decided to halve my dose. I did NOT get away with it -
had to up it again pretty sharpish.

I'm currently taking 30 mg/day of mirtazapine (Avanza) which I've been
taking for just over a week. It does indeed help with encouraging
sleep. The first few days I went from sleeping 3 - 4 hours (broken)
within an average 24 to up to 12 in 24, and in 4-6 hour blocks.
Amazing, truly amazing. Right now, I'm doing 6 - 8 hours a night,
which is fine. I still wake once or twice a night, but I usually
drift off within a few minutes rather than it taking an hour or more
to get back to sleep.

Another side effect this one can have is to lower blood pressure and
sugar levels. Since my BP has been very high, and my sugar levels
seriously uncontrolled since the suicide this is no bad thing. I
don't have a way to measure my BP at home, but my sugars have dropped
from 16 - 18 (hideous!) to 11 - 13 which is an improvement. My doc
thinks I can get back to my usual 5 - 7 without the need of insulin
once we get this depression under control. It's scary to eat a meal
with enough carbs to raise my sugars (normally) by 1 at the end of an
hour and find it's up by 5 or more!

Another side effect of Avanza is that it has been shown to have a
positive effect on Apnoea. They're not sure WHY it does this, but a
number of double-blind studies have shown up to 20% reduction in
problems which makes it no bad thing at all.

It's still too early to tell if the meds are having a sufficient
effect on my depression since SSRIs take a couple of weeks to get to
full effect, but there is certainly a noticeable improvement. I've
actually got the energy to get up and Do Stuff (like get the girls
dressed up in costume for Book Week celebrations this week, or take
them to their first Swimming Carnival) which was not true 2 weeks ago.

{{{{{Aramanth}}}}}

Thanks, Bint. Here's a bunch right back at you

{{{{{Mogget}}}}}

Aramanth

What is sleep apnoea? What are the symptoms? How did you find out? And
what on earth is the connection between sleep and fat?

Snoring. Heavy, heavy snoring where you literally stop breathing
hundreds of times a night. I knew I snored, have done so ever since I
was about 10 or thereabouts (that is, right after I got put on the
meds that started me on the weight gain in the first place!) but
no-one had ever put the pieces together.

He refused to ever see a doctor about it, but I KNOW my husband had this
problem. His snoring would keep ME from sleeping, and I would hear him choking
and gasping for breath along with snoring. He rarely snores anymore, and when
he does it's a light buzzing sound, nothing heavy, no choking. His mood has
improved quite a bit too, he was likely exhausted and didn't even realize it.
LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 5'7" 265/171/140
& hubby- 6' 310/190/180
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lcer09/my_photos

What is sleep apnoea? What are the symptoms? How did you find out? And
what on earth is the connection between sleep and fat?

Snoring. Heavy, heavy snoring where you literally stop breathing
hundreds of times a night. I knew I snored, have done so ever since I
was about 10 or thereabouts (that is, right after I got put on the
meds that started me on the weight gain in the first place!) but
no-one had ever put the pieces together.

He refused to ever see a doctor about it, but I KNOW my husband had this
problem. His snoring would keep ME from sleeping, and I would hear him choking
and gasping for breath along with snoring. He rarely snores anymore, and when
he does it's a light buzzing sound, nothing heavy, no choking. His mood has
improved quite a bit too, he was likely exhausted and didn't even realize it.
LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 5'7" 265/171/140
& hubby- 6' 310/190/180
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lcer09/my_photos

What is sleep apnoea? What are the symptoms? How did you find out? And
what on earth is the connection between sleep and fat?

Snoring. Heavy, heavy snoring where you literally stop breathing
hundreds of times a night. I knew I snored, have done so ever since I
was about 10 or thereabouts (that is, right after I got put on the
meds that started me on the weight gain in the first place!) but
no-one had ever put the pieces together.

He refused to ever see a doctor about it, but I KNOW my husband had this
problem. His snoring would keep ME from sleeping, and I would hear him choking
and gasping for breath along with snoring. He rarely snores anymore, and when
he does it's a light buzzing sound, nothing heavy, no choking. His mood has
improved quite a bit too, he was likely exhausted and didn't even realize it.
LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 5'7" 265/171/140
& hubby- 6' 310/190/180
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lcer09/my_photos