Mummy can't cook

Snowed in bolognaise and a panic with pasta

miaaliciamartin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:27:14 +0000

We are not going out in this snow! It’s too cold and my little princess has a cold as it is – she’s a total snot ball!

I haven’t been to the supermarket in ages, so was wondering what to eat… I made bolognaise from scratch! A big deal for me, I’m a dolmio girl!

I don’t know if it is really bolognaise, but I fried an onion and garlic, added mince meat, herbs, some chilli powder, and a tin of tomatoes. Then I did some penne.

Here is Mia having some grated cheese while waiting for dinner to be ready.

We sat down to eat and I gave her some pasta dipped in the sauce. She was having a good suck on it and I had a major panic! It was too slippery and I could see her sucking too hard and it going straight down her throat! I took it off her and gave her some pita bread dipped in the sauce. Not sure what to do now as we eat a lot of pasta!

One good thing was our new long sleeved bib! She still grabs her feet with mucky hands though – looking forward to getting the high chair soon then she wont be able to do that!

Kebab Takeaway!

miaaliciamartin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:04:45 +0000

OK, I know it isn’t exactly the healthy option we’re going for, but Karl isn’t here tonight so I went downstairs and got a chicken kebab. Mia had some pitta bread, onion and lettuce – followed by a peach yogurt! Sorry about the multiple videos!

We’ve also moved on to Stage 2 formula today.

Lunch at Pizza Express

miaaliciamartin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:33:50 +0000

I went out to meet some old work friends for lunch – the first time they’ve met Mia!

We went to Pizza Express and Mia was moaning and crying so I cut off my pizza crust and gave it to her… she was so happy! Loved it - she got tomato sauce everywhere! Still lots of gagging and spitting but she definitly preferred it to rice cakes.

The next day I grilled a pitta bread with grated cheese, tinned tomato and spinach. Again she loved it. We finished off with a strawberry yogurt – she nearly ate the whole thing!

Today I think she has got Karl’s cold, because she’s really sleepy and hasn’t been drinking much milk so think she might miss food today!

Rice cakes and a fruit pot

miaaliciamartin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:28:02 +0000

We had a lot of mess, a lot of trying to eat fingers, and some gagging and spitting – not sure how much actually got swallowed, but a good start!

Can’t Cook Wont Cook

miaaliciamartin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:14:39 +0000

I’m a rubbish cook. It isn’t something that comes easy to me. I’m impatient. I don’t season. I panic.

My other half is a chef. In four years he has cooked for me twice. He doesn’t want to cook at home when he’s been cooking all day.

So, we live on a diet of take aways (KFC, Chinese, Burger King, Chip Shop), Dolmio spaghetti bolognaise, chicken curry from a jar with microwave rice, or if I’m feeling adventurous, chicken fajitas.

I don’t want to be the sort of mum that feeds her baby crap out of a jar. I want to be able to cook tasty, wholesome, healthy foods for my family. I got made redundant while I was pregnant so I’m at home all day with plenty of time to prepare nutritious meals. So our food journey is not just Mia learning how to eat, it is also me learning how to cook.

The first four months

miaaliciamartin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:53:32 +0000

Mia Alicia Martin was born on Wednesday the fifth of August, 2009. She arrived two weeks late by emergency c-section after a failed induction, weighing 8lb 90z. I had wanted a drug-free home-hypno birth. By 4cm dialated, I was crying my eyes out, couldn’t get any air in through my nose, and had an epidural. I learnt from the beginning that being a mum may not go the way I planned it, and that the things I’d read about how to be a parent may not actually be what I end up doing.

I breast fed for 3 months. I had planned to do it for as long as possible, but after a night out for me (and a night of formula for Mia), she decided that she much preferred bottles. We’d also had a nightmare with her being constipated… that all stopped when we switched to formula. I loved breastfeeding but I’m glad that we stopped when we did – she started sleeping through, we started a routine, she had a happier tummy.

So I got over my anti-formula stance and became an anti-early-weaner. We weren’t going to start a day before six months. We were going to wait for all the right signs – sitting up unaided, lost the tongue-thrust-reflex, can pick up objects and bring them to her mouth, wants to grab food from our plates. So, imagine my surprise when at four and a half months my little princess was siting up all on her own and trying to steal my dinner!

So we were ready to start, but decided to wait a little bit longer, until the five month mark… we went to Asda and prepared with a Little Miss Naughty plate and bowl and some baby cuttlery.