I have some mom questions

[Bernadine]

Did anyone donate blood while bf? Did it affect your supply?

Dd has been sttn for 2 1/2 weeks now. Can I expect this to continue now?

She's 8 mo, crawling since 7 months, and can walk behind her little push walker. What are the odds she's walking by like 9 or 10 months?

Any good references on giving her solids?  She LOVES food, and I just want to make sure I'm keeping her on track.  Between nursing and bottles, she's getting milk about 5-6 times per day.

[hisno1girl]

I can't really answer any of your questions except as to the crawling/walking.

Yes, babies can walk as young as 9 months. My DD did and it was weird to see a tiny baby walking

Kiki will be 7 months old next week but she isn't crawling yet. She flips and flops all the place but no crawling yet.

[Bernadine]

Mar 1, 2017 11:00:18 GMT -5 @bigreddog said:

Solids are such a mess, haha!

I feed my 9 month old a whisked egg everyday with greens and another veggie and low fat cheese. I also do two tablespoons of oatmeal with water for breakfast.. It hits most of the food groups and he seemed to tolerate it. Of course ask pedi what she should be eating. I try to get him to eat what I am having but otherwise I will do a pouch of plum organics. DS loves pulled pork and chicken!

I didn't even think about adding a veggie to eggs, that's a great idea! I'm working on getting away from the pouches and onto real foods. She loves all of it.

[karinothing]

Both my kids started crawling at 5 months. DS1 walked at 15 months and DS2 at 11 months.

[CrazyLucky]

I breastfed both my kids. I am a life long many gallon blood donor, but I didn't give blood during that time. With DS, I had supply issues and wasn't willing to risk it. Then with DD, I was still nervous about supply. There is no restriction against it, though.

Enjoy the STTN while you have it! Just when you think it's a permanent thing, she'll get four teeth at once and be up crying every 90 minutes. Or an ear infection, or a growth spurt and need to eat more...

[cabbagecabbage]

I was under the impression you are not to donate blood while breastfeeding but I'm not sure where I developed that idea.

I walked at 9 months according to my mom and my daughter crawled at 8 months and walked at 10 months. It's very possible.

My 7 month old just went through a growth spurt and went from tasting/playing to inhaling food. He nurses every 3 hours during the day but eats at least two baby meals that are a decent size. He had two tiny oatmeal pancakes, a third of a banana, and gummed up some pear this morning after nursing. I give him all table food now after he nurses. He has his bottom teeth only but holds his own with meat, chunked soft veggies.

[mooselovah]

Mar 1, 2017 10:26:26 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Did anyone donate blood while bf? Did it affect your supply?

Dd has been sttn for 2 1/2 weeks now. Can I expect this to continue now?

She's 8 mo, crawling since 7 months, and can walk behind her little push walker. What are the odds she's walking by like 9 or 10 months?

Any good references on giving her solids?  She LOVES food, and I just want to make sure I'm keeping her on track.  Between nursing and bottles, she's getting milk about 5-6 times per day.

1 - I tried.  My iron levels were to low while bf (I take a supplement).
2.  I hope you can.  I haven't slept through the night in 6 years.
3. All three of my kids walked by 10 mth.  the first one walked at 9.
4. just feed her what you are eating. 
5 - your doing an awesome job.

[froggy76]

I donated blood once while breastfeeding. I don't remember any effect on my supply, but I almost passed out and I felt really horrible after.

[BaliHai]

The first rule of STTN is you don't talk about STTN (but there is a good chance she will keep it up, yes).

Hard to say re: walking. Some kids crawl forever. Some pull up forever. Some kids skip crawling altogether and start walking. DD was up on her little push mobile thing around 8 months old and didn't take her first steps until shortly after her first birthday. And then she took a hard fall a couple of times and scrapped the idea altogether until almost 14 months.

You can give her pretty much anything you're having as far as solids go, but you can stick to softer things if that will give you more peace of mind. At that age DD was eating pickles, chicken, cheese, steamed carrots, pork, etc.

[isabel]

Walking is a crapshoot. DS was pulling up and taking the random one step and falling down around 8 months. He didn't walk until just after his first birthday. We were certain he'd be walking before then, but they do stuff on their own timeline.

[jsillyfun]

I'm planning to donate blood and I BF but my kid is almost 2 and I don't have supply issues etc. I probably wouldn't have done it early on.

I would never count on sttn lol. There are so many sleep regressions, teething etc

My fist walked at 9 months and my second at 8 months. It was trippy.

If she will eat anything I would just keep up a wide variety of foods so she doesn't get too picky.

[Bernadine]

Mar 1, 2017 11:11:13 GMT -5 mooselovah said:

Mar 1, 2017 10:26:26 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Did anyone donate blood while bf? Did it affect your supply?

Dd has been sttn for 2 1/2 weeks now. Can I expect this to continue now?

She's 8 mo, crawling since 7 months, and can walk behind her little push walker. What are the odds she's walking by like 9 or 10 months?

Any good references on giving her solids?  She LOVES food, and I just want to make sure I'm keeping her on track.  Between nursing and bottles, she's getting milk about 5-6 times per day.

1 - I tried.  My iron levels were to low while bf (I take a supplement).
2.  I hope you can.  I haven't slept through the night in 6 years.
3. All three of my kids walked by 10 mth.  the first one walked at 9.
4. just feed her what you are eating. 
5 - your doing an awesome job.

That's always nice to hear. 

[sugarbear]

Mar 1, 2017 10:26:26 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Dd has been sttn for 2 1/2 weeks now. Can I expect this to continue now? I think you can hope. But I learned to never expect anything. DS1 didn't STTN consistently until he was 18 months (I weaned him at 14 months). DS2 STTN consistently at 10 months, and I didn't wean him until 18 months.

She's 8 mo, crawling since 7 months, and can walk behind her little push walker. What are the odds she's walking by like 9 or 10 months? Similar answer as above. You just never know. Both of mine walked by 10 months.

Any good references on giving her solids?  She LOVES food, and I just want to make sure I'm keeping her on track.  Between nursing and bottles, she's getting milk about 5-6 times per day. Pouches. I liked them because I could squeeze some into a spoon and feed them, then put the lid back on. I also started mixing the pouches with whole fat Greek yogurt right around 11 months, when they started to slow down on the breast milk. The both nursed morning / night until we weaned, but neither was a huge fan of the bottle.

[liverandonions]

Mar 1, 2017 10:26:26 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Did anyone donate blood while bf? Did it affect your supply?

Dd has been sttn for 2 1/2 weeks now. Can I expect this to continue now?

She's 8 mo, crawling since 7 months, and can walk behind her little push walker. What are the odds she's walking by like 9 or 10 months?

Any good references on giving her solids?  She LOVES food, and I just want to make sure I'm keeping her on track.  Between nursing and bottles, she's getting milk about 5-6 times per day.

No, I can't donate so no answer there

I hope so! My First was officially STTN as soon as it started, 2nd was totally all over the place-even now he wakes up a bunch crying but he just needs to find his paci

Both my kids crawled at 7.5m and both walked at 10.5m

I did BLW with both so they were on solids from 6 months-Turkey meatballs were a hit, the frozen butternut organic butternut squash was easy because I could make a few cubes at a time, cheese (cut up cheese sticks or even shredded cheese-keeps her busy and works on her pincer grip), waffles, grilled cheese, avocado toast, broccoli, beans, cut up fruit, scrambled eggs, rotisserie chicken, tofu, yogurt. Basically anything. They both LOVED spaghetti (meat and sauce mostly but some cut up noodles too) at a young age.

[mcsangel2]

Mar 1, 2017 10:50:23 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Yes, babies can walk as young as 9 months. My DD did and it was weird to see a tiny baby walking

My friends' younger kid started walking at 7 months and change. I wouldn't have believed it was possible if I hadn't seen it myself.

[sebd12]

Not me, but my friend donates regularly and said the main thing was drinking plenty of fluids before and after. Like, it's super duper extra more important than usual.

Our baby STTN from 3weeks old to 16 weeks. Then we all got colds and she woke up from congestion. Then she started eating all night anyway. We still wake up three times a night. But I enjoyed it while it lasted!

As far as solids, our pedi said that when she develops a pincer grip and keeps food in her mouth (and moves food to the back of her throat with her tongue instead of thrusting it out) she could do soft solids. That was about 7.5 months.
We started with soft cooked veggies and she can JUST about pick up small pieces but not quite yet (8.5 months).

She LOVES applesauce, peanut butter, mashed potatoes, whole carrots, pickles, onions (!?!?).. basically anything we give her. But we do it just for fun and sporadically because real food = real poop. Yuck! so I'm taking it probably super slow compared to most based on my own laziness. My boobs are way more convenient than real food!

[sparkythelawyer]

Mar 1, 2017 10:26:26 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Did anyone donate blood while bf? Did it affect your supply?

Dd has been sttn for 2 1/2 weeks now. Can I expect this to continue now?  Here's hoping!  In my case, if she started waking up during the night again, there was either a tooth or a growth spurt involved. 

She's 8 mo, crawling since 7 months, and can walk behind her little push walker. What are the odds she's walking by like 9 or 10 months?  Maybe.  Mine crawled at about the same time, and could cruise pretty well, but didn't walk until just after a year.  I swore it because she was so fast at crawling she wasn't going to walk until she could crawl faster. 

Any good references on giving her solids?  She LOVES food, and I just want to make sure I'm keeping her on track.  Between nursing and bottles, she's getting milk about 5-6 times per day. If you are nursing before offering solids, you're good to go.  A that age she'd get a little oatmeal in the morning, mixed with breastmilk and a fruit puree of some sort in the morning, and about half a jar of something at lunch and dinner (sometimes she'd eat more, but sometimes not).  shredded cheese, avocado, scrambled eggs and yogurt are also big hits at that age too.


AND she's adorable btw :-)