Foooooood

[ailbhe]

Here I am breastfeeding a newborn again.

FEED ME.

I am barely functional and hugely short-tempered, most days, and it's entirely due to inadequate food intake. I can't do anything needing two hands because if I put Astrid in a sling she spits up on me, but she also doesn't want to be laid flat on her back because that makes her spit up too. We need to buy a reclining bouncy chair device. I'm sure we used to have one but Rob can't find it in the attic and we may have given it away.

For brief periods (long enough to put something oven-ready in or out of the oven) her sisters can prop her up, so oven-ready things are fine. But even cutting a bagel in half can be a problem, unless she's asleep.

I really need to figure something out. We need oven-ready dinners for evenings, which are easy enough, but we also need something ready to eat lunchwise. We tried reversing it, but it takes Rob just as long to get a bunch of sandwiches ready in the evening (when I'm feeding the baby more or less constantly) as it does to get a basic cooked dinner. And that makes the evening meal too late.

Weekends spent cooking things up are the answer for the evening meal... but what about snacks and lunchtime?

I bet by the time I have this figured out she'll have stopped eating so much. Two days now, maybe three, she's eaten almost constantly from noon to 7pm, sometimes eating in her sleep. As I said earlier, if she doesn't weigh 13lb by Monday I'll send her back.

Comments

[quentinwrites.livejournal.com]

This might sound rank but I used to eat Heinz baked beans cold, straight out of the can. Strangely delicious and quite nutritious as well.

[barakta]

I've done this when low on blood sugar and spoons.

Recently I've taken to cheating premenstrual hypoglycaemia with 'energy drinks' sipped slowly for several hours after food but suspect that wouldn't work for ailbhe either.

[ailbhe]

How did you open the tin?

[quentinwrites.livejournal.com]

With a tin opener. But I guess if you were unable to do that, you could open it earlier and put foil or one of those plastic can lids you can get over it.

[ailbhe]

I find tin-opening tricky at the best of times, but those plastic lids sound like a brilliant idea.

[rmc28]

Or get Rob to open tins and decant into tupperware/old takeaway boxes/food store of choice?

But also, feed yourself first. The oxygen-mask approach to parenting.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

The oxygen-mask approach to parenting.

*grin* Yes, this.

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

The last tins of beans I bought, which I think were Heinz, came with those ring-pull tops that you can do one-handed, at a pinch.

[ailbhe]

Aha, yes, I can do those with a spoon.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

You can buy them in plastic pots now, which are designed to go straight in the microwave; if you like them cold (I do, rather!) you can just peel the lid off and eat them straight out of the pot. No need to wrestle with tin-openers.