Feeding question - we have been doing rice and oatmeal 2x/day for a month now. I was going to start banana this morning and cracked open a package of Gerber Stage 1 Banana. I tasted it and oh my it was like sickeningly sweet and the banana smell was overwhelming. I couldn't bear to feed that to DD if I didn't even want to eat it.
I was going to stop by the store and buy real bananas and just mush it up really finely and thin it with formula for her to eat. She can't sit up yet so I am going to only do puree-style food for now.
After your kid is older than 6 months, what type of containment device do you put them in when you're eating dinner at someone else's house?
We ran into this problem at my moms this past weekend. I mentioned I should get a bouncer or something for him to sit in while we eat and she said he would grow out of it soon so there was no need for one. That made me think, what do you do with them?
We haven't used it yet, but we have one of these travel booster things that I plan on bringing with us. Our friend had one and did this and it worked well.
Should I feel guilty/do something about the fact that my kid generally needs to be moving in order to fall asleep for a nap (car, swing, me baby wearing her)…it isn't every nap, but usually the later it is in the day, the more she fusses and the more she needs to be moving to fall asleep. This is new, when she was a newborn she would just fall asleep when she was tired, now she is fighting it.
DD is the same way. Luckily she is able to settle herself in the MOTN on her own without movement, but for initially going to sleep, she needs movement (usually either rocking while nursing, or walking around the house for ages). I'm hoping I can break her of it when we try sleep training her soon, because my back is killing me from pacing around the house.
After your kid is older than 6 months, what type of containment device do you put them in when you're eating dinner at someone else's house?
We ran into this problem at my moms this past weekend. I mentioned I should get a bouncer or something for him to sit in while we eat and she said he would grow out of it soon so there was no need for one. That made me think, what do you do with them?
I use our stroller system as a containment device in my mom's kitchen and even in my kitchen. She sits in the infant carrier clipped into the stroller frame with the buckle that goes across the chest on so she can't roll out. I don't do the buckles that go down by the legs just so she has some freedom to kick her legs.
But when I ate dinner at friends' houses, I either held DD at the dinner table and ate one handed, or sat and ate on the floor while she rolled around. I want to be judgey and say no one offered to watch and entertain DD so I'd have a chance to eat, but then again I wouldn't have offered to do that back when I was a selfish single person so I guess it's karma catching up with me.
After your kid is older than 6 months, what type of containment device do you put them in when you're eating dinner at someone else's house?
We ran into this problem at my moms this past weekend. I mentioned I should get a bouncer or something for him to sit in while we eat and she said he would grow out of it soon so there was no need for one. That made me think, what do you do with them?
She is only 5 months right now but we put her in the rnp with seatbelt. I think people are surprised when we bring it but it is really convenient! I think we can do this for another few months.
I forgot the RNP has a seatbelt! We always put her in there with a padded cover over the seatbelt part because we never used it. Once she started rolling and figured out she could push the bottom of RNP with her legs and nearly leap out, we stopped using it but haven't put it away yet.
Guess where DD is going to get strapped into tomorrow so I can get some chores done while she digests? She's not even 15 lbs yet. I've got a good 10 lbs to go to get my money's worth out of that thing.
Feeding question - we have been doing rice and oatmeal 2x/day for a month now. I was going to start banana this morning and cracked open a package of Gerber Stage 1 Banana. I tasted it and oh my it was like sickeningly sweet and the banana smell was overwhelming. I couldn't bear to feed that to DD if I didn't even want to eat it.
I was going to stop by the store and buy real bananas and just mush it up really finely and thin it with formula for her to eat. She can't sit up yet so I am going to only do puree-style food for now.
Am I crazy?
Why is this crazy? I planned this for my dd's first food too. We probably aren't doing oatmeal because my H and I both personally hate the taste/texture so we don't want to feed it to our kid.
I thought it might be crazy because the nurse at the pedi's office was surprised that I wanted to make my own food because she always fed her kid jars and stuff. She probably thought I was a dumbass when I asked her "uh what kind of baby food am I supposed to buy?" She told me to buy the stuff that says "Stage 1" so I bought the banana during the Target baby sale as my item to get me over $100.
I just found a Sage Spoonfuls food processor system that my friend gave DD. About to open the box and see what is in there for tomorrow's banana experiment.
Feeding question - we have been doing rice and oatmeal 2x/day for a month now. I was going to start banana this morning and cracked open a package of Gerber Stage 1 Banana. I tasted it and oh my it was like sickeningly sweet and the banana smell was overwhelming. I couldn't bear to feed that to DD if I didn't even want to eat it.
I was going to stop by the store and buy real bananas and just mush it up really finely and thin it with formula for her to eat. She can't sit up yet so I am going to only do puree-style food for now.
Am I crazy?
Our pedi told us to skip the jarred bananas and just mash up fresh.
We actually have a few in the freezer right now (put them just as they were getting ripe and we were about to go out of town) and I cut off a small piece, put it in a mesh feeder, and give it to her in the evening after her puree as a "banana-cicle". She enjoys it.