Behind The Child

No-blend breakfast. 250mls milk 150mls fruit smoothie (innocent acai berry) 30g four grain baby porridge. This is our lazy breakfast, o...

Breakfast 50g oats 6 Dried apricots 1 kiwi 250mls milk. Tea 375g lamb mince, fried with 1 large white onion. 200g carrot, mashed ...

Apologies for muddled photographs. Blogging by phone and tired. Breakfast today 40g oats A banana An apple 3 prunes 250mls milk. Ev...

A cold morning needed Readybrek to give us all that healthy nuclear glow. 30g, with 10g cashew nuts, a small kiwi, an apple, and 250mls mi...

Two blends today. First breakfast - 200mls milk blended up with a small apple, a small banana, six almonds and 25g porridge oats. Add...

Some people on our Blended Diet group have asked for some recipes, and I said I would post a week of blends. I don't usually follow rec...

First, Grolly. Those of a sensitive nature, or perhaps unused to the less pretty parts of complex medical needs may perhaps wish to fo...

We're a sociable bunch here. We eat out a lot, especially on holiday. For years, this has meant that we've booked tables with ...

This week's fruit and veg box looks particularly appetising, perhaps because I now have the leisure to decide what to cook and when with...

Have this for breakfast, lunch and tea, and everything inbetween? Or this? Live off this? Or this? Tia

Take one month's plastics (daily disposable bottle and tube) for two girls' tube feed. Not including the feed itself, extension tube...

It's not exactly low profile. but I suspect you might be able to modify it - or find one that is. It's a Christmas tree connector th...

Start the day in a good mood, hurrah. Watch your sister go off on the school bus, humph. Realise you're going to hospital for an appoint...

Back in February, we had an epic pump saga . Two broken pumps, three broken replacements, followed finally by two working pumps. You apologi...

For Christie Here's Mog; She is hooked up to a pump which feeds her through it most of the day. It runs on a battery, and lasts all day....

Sitting peacefully yesterday morning, I was surprised to hear an insistent knocking at the back door. I turned around, wondering who might b...

So today Mog's feed pump decided to die on us, thankfully not until we were in the checkout at IKEA but still leaving her without feed f...

This is the view I get on Tuesday evenings now. Mog and her six, working together. It's beautiful - one writes in her notebook for her, ...

Wake up, blow nose, cough, go back to sleep. Wake up, wipe someone else's cough, go back to sleep. Get up, get the girls up, get feeds a...

Mog's new head and backrests arrived this morning. I think it's safe to assume she likes them. Instant growth for her; she sits thre...