The Nightly Visitor

Since we started food we've had an extra waking between 11pm-12 midnight, eventually I discovered that it wasn't a need for milk that was fuelling this wake up, but the need to trump like a wee trumpety pants. My normally dummy refusing bambino will now take a cuddle, and then bear down on the dummy until she has expelled every last drop of wind and will then go back off to sleep.

It seems to be a common complaint among other Baby Led Weaners and particularily breast feeding Baby Led Weaners. The Wee One has been producing poops Him has been proud of since the day she was born, they are quite epic. I'm glad I figured it out though, offering milk every waking was getting exhausting. I had just assumed milk was wanted as the Wee One had never really woke up before after going to bed. I learned after an exhausting couple of days that the boob was not always in demand.

Brown rice made the wind effects much worse, and it broke my heart that the Wee One seemed in such pain.

I generally write these blogs during the night feed and I'm happy to confirm that some trumping commenced before we came up stairs. We'll see if the waking occurs or not this evening.

We gave breakfast, lunch and dinner again today, mostly because we had a full night's sleep last night and we're hoping for the same again tonight.

Breakfast was a blueberry pancake , lunch was hummous, breadstick and cheese and dinner was chicken, tomato, boiled egg, breadstick and some more cheese. The Wee One is getting an old hand now, she just grabs a bit of what's on offer and sticks it in her mouth and gives it a go.

Blueberry Pancakes

4 & 1/2 tablespoons of Self-Raising Flour
1/2 teaspoon of Baking Powder
150 ml of Whole Milk
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon of Sugar (optional)
2 handfuls of Blueberries

1. Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl. Add milk and egg and beat well together. Your mixture should be quite thick. It should leave a ribbon trail when you remove your spoon.

2. Heat your pan and brush with a very small amount of oil. It's a touch and go area, just how hot it should be. Your pan shouldn't be smoking but not medium either. I always test a small amount of the batter in the pan. It should take around 30 seconds for bubbles to appear in the pancake, if it's less turn the heat down, more turn the heat up.

3. Make pancakes with around 2 tablespoons of batter, 1 tablespoon for a baby portion. Add 6-7 blueberries to each pancake as soon as it stops spreading in the pan. Once bubbles appear and pop, flip your pancake and cook on the other side for 1-2 minutes.

Makes 5 large pancakes and 1 baby sized.