NMY Graduates Love Thread, Part 4 - Page 15

[witchygrrl]

Originally Posted by zoebird

so, they're very upset with me and tried to convince me that i should give him a pacifier, let them feed him from a bottle if he really needs to eat that much, or simply "let go" enough so that he can "cry it out" and learn to be with other people.

to which my response is. . .well you can guess and it ain't delicate.

Ugh. What a pain. They're so....special.

My ILs don't get why Rhea nurses so much. She likes to snack as opposed to having marathons now, so she does get hungry all of the time, despite my efforts to keep her on longer each time. They also don't get why I don't like her in a stroller--it's so great! She falls asleep so quickly! Um, thanks, I'd rather wear her.

Ok, quick question. How do you get baby in the car in the cold weather? Do you wrap DC up in a Moby or something, and then strap baby into the carseat? DH thinks we should bring the carseat inside, get her hooked up first, then bring her out to the car, pre-bundled. We don't have a garage, btw.

[Maela]

Dd yogurt and hummus. And yes she makes a huge mess too PiePie. She likes to rub things in her hair and eyes. Isn't it so fun to clean up?


Dd went to bed at 7:55PM tonight! : After two nights of staying up after 11pm, that's really good! She had a bit of cold the last couple of weeks and I think she's finally feeling better.


We never had to worry too much about the cold and walking to the garage because we live in CA. I used to wrap her up in a blanket before leaving the house, and that was good enough. If you have an infant carseat that just clicks into the base, I would put her into the carseat in the house like your dh said. I could see that being a pain though if it's a britax boulevard or something like that though.

ETA: Holiztic, it was nice to hear from you! We are also happy with our small house. It's 1275 sq ft, but that's still considered small by many people around here. We have lots of Mcmansions in the area.

[katt]

we never took the carseat out, mainly cause we have a 2 door and we just couldn't strap the baby in the seat and then put the seat in, just wouldn't work.

SO... for cold weather we'd heat up a heat pack (rice) stick it in the car seat to warm it up for a few minutes. Put baby in the moby to get him to the car and then strap him in.

[PiePie]

Originally Posted by witchygrrl

DH thinks we should bring the carseat inside, get her hooked up first, then bring her out to the car, pre-bundled. We don't have a garage, btw.

we are car-free so i have very limited experience with this but it sounds dead wrong from a safety perspective. the biggest danger is an improperly installed carseat.

[PiePie]

Originally Posted by witchygrrl

Has she tried spinach yet? Not sure if that is age appropriate, but...

oh she loves her spinach. we don't have it much at home, bc dh hates it and he does almost all the cooking. but we eat out a lot (being ny'ers) and i developed a huge craving for spinach while pregnant and it lasted, so she gets it from me. will have to up that. it is age appropriate. she can do pretty much anything cooked. raw veggies are still out.

[PiePie]

Originally Posted by Maela

Dd yogurt and hummus. And yes she makes a huge mess too PiePie. She likes to rub things in her hair and eyes. Isn't it so fun to clean up?

it ENGRAGES me. we are struggling with where to put the high chair. in the kitchen which means that if we eat with her we eat stadning up or leaning on the counter, or in the dining room/playroom, which means we get to eat the dining room table and feel like a family, but means that her food on the floor spreads uncontrollably when she plays (it'[s the playroom). dh wants to feel like a family, i want to avoid feeling out of control angry at her. for perfectly age-appropriate behavior. she signals she is done by doing the baby signs sign for all done -- like a ref signalling safe -- and swishing her food on the floor. she does this at daycare too. and in restaurants. charming. i have started watcing her closely and sometimes i can cathc her just in th enick of time. but oy. wwyd?

[PiePie]

so sad over the melamine in formula in china. up to 13K kids.

[witchygrrl]

Originally Posted by PiePie

so sad over the melamine in formula in china. up to 13K kids.

me too. it's awful

[snozzberry]

PiePie, I just remembered that nitrates in veggies like carrots, spinach, root veggies, etc, can be linked to anemia. Might be something to look into? Are you cooking your own for any of those?

Ears: How do you clean them? I know I'm not supposed to stick anything in there, but gosh they're dirty! I used a wet wipe and tried to get the gunk off the parts closest to the outside, but then her ear got all red and she was grabbing/pulling it.

[katt]

Eating Mess... Can I just say that I LOVE having a dog? Whenever we eat over at someone else's house who is dog-free I hate having to clean up the mess. Whereas at home I just call the dog over to clean up for me. (except for grapes and raisins of course)
Is there anyway you can put a plastic sheet under her to help with the clean up? Not perfect, but it may help?

Ears... I don't know what you're supposed to do but, I use my nails and a wash cloth at bath-time. He doesn't much like it and squirms, but I get the worst parts. I only do it once in a while, not very often at all. Only when it looks like they need it.

[cking]

Originally Posted by snozzberry

Ears: How do you clean them? I know I'm not supposed to stick anything in there, but gosh they're dirty! I used a wet wipe and tried to get the gunk off the parts closest to the outside, but then her ear got all red and she was grabbing/pulling it.

I've noticed that a lot of gunk will surface after a bath. I try to just get that out with a finger or a cotton ball wet with witch hazel.

[cking]

DD is going to be six months old next week. I'm having a lot of anxiety over this solid food thing. Silly, I know. I'm planning to just start slow, maybe only once or twice a day, and hopefully skip spoon-feeding and purees and do self-feeding. Would you mamas like to share your first-food experiences? When did you start? What did you start with? Did your dc continue right away or did it take a while to get steady with it?

I've been reading thru Super Baby Food. Wow, there is a lot of information in there but I think it may be overwhelming me. I like having the little chart suggesting which foods to introduce when, but for six-m.o.s she recommends mashing and thinning out food to spoon feed.

[PiePie]

EARS: she's got a ton of wax in there (takes after dh in that way) but i try to leave it alone. my grandmom used to say don't stick anything in there smaller than your elbow.

FOOD: cking, i used dr. sears's chart for what to introduce when and the superbaby foods book for recipes. i think the latter is a bit aggressive on solids. i also highly recommend child of mine. i was lovin' in but now my messy house seems to have eaten it.

ok she has now emptied my wallet of crucial cards.

[Maela]

Originally Posted by PiePie

she signals she is done by doing the baby signs sign for all done -- like a ref signalling safe -- and swishing her food on the floor. she does this at daycare too. and in restaurants. charming. i have started watcing her closely and sometimes i can cathc her just in th enick of time. but oy. wwyd?

That is EXACTLY what Maev does. We have hard floors, so it's not hard to clean up. My SIL has carpet and she lays down a big plastic sheet under the highchair. It's so easy to clean. Maybe that would help?


Solids: I used super baby food mostly for the recipes too. I also felt like she (the author) expected the baby to be eating so much at too early of an age. Dd's first food was an avocado the day she turned 6 mo. I gave her the whole half. She didn't do much with it. She did taste it with her tongue. We did about half puree/spoon feeding and half self-feeding.

[Sihaya]

Ears: Even though DH and I clean our own ears out with cotton swabs, we don't clean Calvin's unless there are big visible chunks of wax, in which case we use our fingers or a wash cloth.

Solids: We've done 100% self-feeding with Calvin. He started with pear and avacado at 6.5 months. It never occured to me to look for recipes for him. We have just been feeding him whatever we have around the house that isn't allergenic (which isn't much). I want to make more of an effort to feed him 2-3 times/day, but we're still unpacking and I'm not even eating that often at this point, so he just gets fed whenever it's convenient.

[PiePie]

CKING, i think especially for exclusively bfing mamas the first solids is hugely emotional. i cried. we self-fed only bc dd took the spoon right out of dh's hand (you can see the video on his fb page) but after reading child of mine i am a huge believer. we did solids only once a day and then only every other day from mos. 6-10. gotta go, trouble.

[~Shanna~]

I'm going to stop lurking for a while. I can't even keep up with that anymore...

MMM, I'll check in with you for Squeak's arrival!

Bye for now

[Maela]

Originally Posted by ~Shanna~

I'm going to stop lurking for a while. I can't even keep up with that anymore...

MMM, I'll check in with you for Squeak's arrival!

Bye for now

Oh Shanna! You will be missed.

[katt]

Solids:
First food: Watermelon then Plum then cooked/canned carrots (from my dad's garden) then pretty much whatever we were eating but slightly softer or smaller to accomodate him. I try and keep dairy and other allergens to a minimum.

Now, he's a good eater. He doesn't shun much. He does get distracted, but if I hold food up to him he'll eat it. So, I do that if it doesn't seem like he's eaten a lot. (if he really isn't hungry he won't eat it and I don't push.)

He didn't start solids until 10 months. I figured that if he was happy playing with a bowl and spoon at the dinner table, then he didn't really need solids. After that got old then we started solids.

I'd usually offer him foods whenever we ate and let him eat however much he wanted. I LOVED the fact that he didn't care either way when we were out. That way I didn't have to worry about packing lots of solids to feed him.

[MujerMamaMismo]

Originally Posted by ~Shanna~

I'm going to stop lurking for a while. I can't even keep up with that anymore...

Bye for now

I'll miss you --- there were a few weeks there that I thought Ms Verbosity was back. I hope you secure the conditions that will enable her to return soon! :