September 2004 Mamas - March Thread - Our babies are 6 months already!!! - Page 3

[bendmom]

Bunsmom- I use a jogging stroller : , but I also really do jog :LOL . Or I put him in the back pack. I like my jogger because I can walk down to the grocery store and get stuff and the stroller holds everything. My dh really liked the sling for Aidan, but it never was my thing. I wore him in a little backpack for 3 yrs though. I consider myself pretty AP too. I forget what else you mentioned about the mom, but don't let something like stroller use hold you back from making friends with her,kwim?

Jen- I'm so out of the loop on all that animal fat stuff. I'm glad you responded I've been a veg. so long I forget that dairy is considered animal fat or animal product. When I was a kid my dad went to Min. to look at a farm we would have moved to. He told me that we would drink cows milk *straight* I never got over drinking cows milk.

Any advice on educating a frien'd dh on co-sleeping? she's gonna bf, but he doesn't want babe in the bed. I though about giving her Dr. Sear's book on nightime parenting, but what if he doesn't read it? Thank's for teh advice. I see her tonight and would like something to arm myself with.

[JenInMpls]

Baby is busy foiling my attempt to have a schedule again!! laid him down for a nap at 10, expected the usual 1/2 hour morning nap, here it is 1.5 hours later, still sleeping... are we going to be able to eat and make it to Jo's office on time to eat lunch with her? Stay tuned!!!

(There are pigeons sitting on our roof and I can hear them cooing and chortling above my head! Odd)

Hey hey, I'm here again to say: strollers are not inherently evil. tristan gets crispy when he can't have a little physical "alone" time. While he does the co-op and walks around the neighborhood just fine in the sling, I think he would have gone crazy at the Sprawl of Hysteria - erm, I mean the mall of america - if he couldn't have sat in the stroller.

From all I have read: buy organic meat for these reasons:
1. No hormones, like Sarah said.
2. No antibiotics.
3. Farmers who will work hard enough to get organic certification usually have small herds/flocks and will either free-range or grass-feed. This is better for the animals which leads to better meat. Small farms are also easier to take care of and keep clean which means that the animals are healthier and require less veterinary intervention.
4. Co-ops that sell organic meat usually have visited the farms they purchase from and the butcher can give you first-hand information about how the animals are treated, the cleanliness of the place, etc.

FF, sorry for your lousy car ride : and that you missed the meeting. Best laid plans...

Yeah Sarah I wouldn't exactly call Florida dairy country. :LOL where to graze all those Holsteins and Jerseys - the Everglades, perhaps? raw milk here costs around $3 for a half gallon. I can't believe that the farmer who deals raw milk products to the families at our school is still in business.

AHA! The boy is awake. Time to get things in gear so we can get to Jo's office... OH btw Jo is applying for a job at another college in town that is essentially made for her... and it would provide domestic partner benefits. I don't believe in praying for favors, but if all of you could send some positive vibes that would be great! This will be the *third time* she applies for this position... but this time the job posting was sent to her personally by the guy who interviewed her last time with strong encouragement that she apply. :

[Mama Bear]

Originally Posted by bunsmom

I was even thinking of going to a LLL meeting but not sure now.

Please don't let my one experience keep you from going to LLL. I was going there while I was still pregnant and it was an awesome support for me especially when ds had some food allergy/sensitivity issues. I really enjoy going to the meetings usually. I hadn't been there for 2 months - so I was a little out of the loop. That doesnt' justify that woman's attitude, but she was the only one acting like that. So, please, go try out your local LLL. I am sure you will meet some wonderful mamas. They may not all be AP, but atleast you will have BF in common.

[punkymonkeymom]

I didnt read for a little over a day and there are 3 pages on just the March thread! I havent found the Feb one yet to see if I missed anything on it too.

Makynzi is fine. The red mark never even bruised. She stayed on her tummy for a couple of hours straight yesterday! Until she was so tired she just gave out. And now today all of a sudden she is trying to sit on her own for short periods of time. I cant keep her still. Lately she isnt even content just for me to sit and hold her. She is wanting to be on the move!

Makynzi too is growing out of 6-9 mo clothes lengthwise. Please dont remind me that she is about to be 6 months old! Makyzni was born on the 15th. I saw a 2 week old baby in the store the other day and she looked so tiny. I thought wow she must have been extra small or preemie. So I asked mom how much she weighed. She said 8 1/2 lbs. That is a pound bigger than Makynzi and 2 1/2 pounds bigger than Madyson! Now I understand why everyone told me how tiny they were.

I need to get Makynzi started on some baby food. She is definately interested in food but didnt like the rice cereal. I also tried a bit of banana baby food but she didnt care for that either. Jen, can we feed them yogurt now? Or when? I know the acidophillous (sp?) is supposed to be good for them.

Gotta go, little one needs a diaper and is wiggling all different ways trying to get me to let her down off my lap... I'm losing my snuggly baby already. LOL but by all means dont let me walk out of her sight.

[punkymonkeymom]

Forgot to add that the only AP mom I know irl is my sil and she lives halfway across the country in Kansas.

[punkymonkeymom]

Ok, baby is playing happily on floor and is freshly diapered. I found the FEb thread and wanted to reply to FeministFatale about the hair pulling. Sorry for all the posts in a row. I should have just edited. I do pull my hair back as much as I can stand it. It gives me horrible headaches for some reason. I'm going to keep trying the open hand thing. Maybe she will catch on. I think its a wonderful idea. I was so frustrated with it the other day. I am pretty sure she is doing it for comfort because anytime she nurses she grabs my hair and also if she is tired or upset. That is when it is the worst. I havent decided yet whether to cut my hair or not. We'll see how it goes. I am trying to get her to do something else for comfort but not sure what? Guess its no different than when Madyson weaned and she always stuck her hand in my shirt from the neckline for comfort.

[Almamiel]

: Jo and Jen!!!

Another thing we did w/ Mieke when she got a little older was the "one finger touch." It was alot less frustrating for her to be able to touch fragile things with one finger than to not be able to touch at all.

[JenInMpls]

sak

mandy i think the yogurt is a 6-mo food, i'll have to look it up. if you want makynzi (hope i got the sp right) to have cultures, you can pop open a probiotic capsule (acidophilus or a combination, i know lactobacillus reuteri is supposed to be really good for babies) and just give her a fingertipful on her tongue.

ok, t needs to go to sleep. later!

[punkymonkeymom]

Jen- thanks. Shes not really eating any solids yet. Ive tried rice cereal and bananas but just a couple of times. You got the spelling right LOL. Im used to it being misspelled. I have to spell both of my girls names to everyone. I should have just gave up and went normal but I wanted unique names so the spelling was mine and dh's compromise.

[bunsmom]

Hi again.

I don't think strollers are evil at all. We have one, and a jogger, both still in their boxes, but I do think we will use them at some point. I think I should have been more specific. She describes herself as a grunchy type woman, but does nothing to support that type of lifestyle. I think I just don't really like her for the most part and that is my problem. Sometimes she is really sweet and then the next time I run into her she is strange. I thought that once we both have kids we would have common ground, but it doesn't look that way, but that is o.k. too.

Bunny still hasn't had a tooth pop out yet, but the last couple of days have been tough, on both of us. I thought that if we stayed home and just rested things would be better, but it seemed to have made her more restless.

You ladies have talked me into it, I am going to go to a LLL meeting. I have been planning on going to another of the Mother Support meetings, but it is early in the morning and about 1/2 hour from my house, so not super easy for me to get us both up, around and there on time or I would try again. I do know that they have play groups closer to where we live that I am going to check out.

Oh! We tried solid food yesterday for the first time. I mashed up some banana, and she loved it.

Thanks for the suggestions and help. You are a lovely bunch of Mamas.

[Mama Bear]

bunsmom - I had ds in the water as well!!! I wonder if they were born the same time? It's funny to think we were laboring at the same time!!! :LOL
(9/4/04 3:23pm is when he came into the world)

[bunsmom]

Mama Bear, she was born at 7:26 PM. Would have been born earlier, but was stuck on my cervix (OUCH!), but thanks to our "tough love" midwife, she and I came through just fine. We had three midwives, and they are all very different, and our tough love Midwife (as we lovingly call her), made it possible. The main midwife was more motherly and loving and I needed that too.

What scares me STILL, is that if I had opted for a hospital birth, I most likely would have been forced to have a C-Section instead of working with me to have the water birth. I am so thankful that we had such a wonderful birth and that I was able to have her in water and not at a hospital.

We were laboring at the same time though. To get me through that process I kept thinking of all the other women who were going through the same thing at the same time, and that really helped!

[sistermama]

Originally Posted by bunsmom

but thanks to our "tough love" midwife, she and I came through just fine. The main midwife was more motherly and loving and I needed that too.

I've gone one of each of those too!

Almamiel - one finger touch worked GREAT for us as well. I think it is great for kids too, cause they don't have to hear "no" all the time, and it is the beginning of learning some type of restraint, too.

[Caroline248]

I do not know how you ladies post so much! I feel happy if I get to go the bathroom alone lately! Jackson is teething and the poor thing is just miserable. He turned 6 months old a week ago (the 23rd of Feb). He was the first Sept baby..born in August!

We are doing ok. My milk supply had some issues after I finally MC'ed, but we are better now. Emotionally I am good. Not great, but good.

Hello to the new people!! Lots of Sept babies here.

So we can give them yogurt? I didn't know that. After trying the rice cereal, IJackson didn't take it well and we stopped. He doesn't really eat anything (besides B-milk) but I have been giving him little bits of what we eat. Last night he had some long grain wild rice and tonight he tried some whole wheat pasta. He does love to try to eat that stuff, but he still chokes, so we only give him teeny tries.

Hmm, strollers, LOVE them. I can't go for long walks with the sling, I have scoliosis and that would be too uncomfortable. Jack loves the stroller anyway, he usually conks right out when we are out walking. And right now our walks are really for the benefit of hte older kids, so it is nice to be able to give them full attention.

Sizes..Jackson is wearing some 12 months, some 9-12. He was 19 pounds 1 ounce last week. My neighbor had a baby two weeks ago and she seems sooo tiny. Wow.

Well, hope you all are doing well..Jen, good luck to Jo!!

~C~

[bendmom]

Okay, I see the white bumps under his gums, but that's all it's been for weeks.

I caved and gave him food : I feel like such a dork because I keep saying that I'm not going to give him any for a while. But he wants it so bad He keeps grabbing my glass of water, or trying to get whatever I'm eating, so I opened up some mushed sweet potato I had for a pie, and he ate over 3 tablespoons off my finger. I don't really know what to do at this point. Do I go buy the little spoons and food and highchair.... I guess after my first grew up, I wanted to keep this one babied for as long as possible

Last night My friend gave me a box of *you know who* cookies. I ate the whole box. : Thin mints, yum

Jen, I made liners out of that bright green microfleece from JoAnns, and the fabric is so thin that it mushes into the diaper and doesn't really help. Oh well. When do they tell applicants(Jo) who gets the job?

[leomom]

Kate isn't showing any signs of wanting food, can't sit up alone, and doesn't have the pincher grasp..but I'm thinking ahead...what is the best food to start with. From what I've read, rice cereal has virtually no nutrients and is a simple carb...so should i just skip it and go to veggies? I really need to get a book that will answer all my questions! Does Super Food answer questions like that, or is it just a book of recipes?

Caroline, I post often b/c I have become addicted to the computer druing my down time. It's my way of zoning out and relaxing when Kate's sleeping. :LOL

[chrissy]

Jen, fingers crossed here for Jo too.

Caroline, it's good to hear from you. i have been thinking of you and hoping you're doing okay with the miscarriage.

re: food. lilah is only 5 mos old but like some other september babies she is just dying to eat. i mean the poor thing goes nuts trying to get my glass, my food, noah's sippy cup, everything. noah never ever did this stuff. so even though she is still too young i have caved and given her some food and water here and there. today i was making quesadillas for me and noah for lunch and i gave her some little bits of avodado. she loved it. i put a little piece in her mouth and she shoved her fingers in and sucked them and the avocado down. she chews and rarely tongue thrusts. i don't think she's ready to eat much but i think (hope?) it's okay that i am giving her little bits. i am already worried that she will wean early though. she doesn't nurse for comfort at all, which noah did a ton. i guess we'll see and whatever she needs is what we'll do. ah, these babies have plans of their own don't they?

we are showing our house for the first time tomorrow. is it too much to hope that the first person who comes will buy it?

have i told you all we are going to puerto rico? we are. in a week and a half. i am so excited because the trip is with my mom, her 2 sisters and all their kids (my cousins). these are my favorite people in the whole world and i am so beyond thrilled to spend a week with them. it doesn't hurt that we will be in a tropical paradise either. that said, i am a little worried about the flights. we leave here at 5:30 am, which means we have to be at the airport around 3:30am. argh. and i am a nervous flyer.

okay i am supposed to be helping clean so off i go.

[chrissy]

stacey, we must've posted at the same time. i think 'super baby food' has a lot of recipes as well as information about what foods are good when.

okay i really really am going to help my husband now.

[sistermama]

super baby food has tons of info - basically everything you need to know. they usually have it at barnes abd noble if you want to check it out.

nak

[bendmom]

Chrissy- I am so jealous

We used to spend every spring break and summer in Florida with family. I miss the warmth. I hope all goes well w/ the house as well. The last time I went back home I gave my window seat to the guy next to me. It just isn't as cool when you are a kid IMO.