Hi all, waves gorgeous pics, beautiful girl & love her curly locks! I can't wait for Eva to have girly hair!
Waves she has amazing eyes!! Such a pretty little girl!!
Thanks ladies
There are a few strands of hair on the back of her head at her neckline that are a lot longer than the rest of her hair. It looks so funny!!
I'm nervous though, there's so much to do with weaning, how do I know if I'm doing it right? How do I do it?
Sorry girls, I'm just concerned and don't have anyone to talk to about it all.
I've done it before with my oldest daughter yet when it comes to Hannah... I still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. I took advice from a few resources and friends when I started out but now that she's been eating solids for a month or so now... I'm just doing what I feel like and what she takes well to. She gets a regular bottle (7 oz) in the morning when she wakes up around 9:30. She eats lunch at 1:30 and has some rice cereal (I use 1 oz of formula and add about 3 spoonfuls of rice cereal to make it pretty thick) followed by half a jar of vegetable puree, then half a jar of fruit puree & finished off with half of a bottle (she usually will take 2.5-3oz of formula after all that "food".) She has a second lunch around 5:30 which consists of rice cereal (1 oz formula & 3 spoonfuls of rice cereal) and then a 6oz bottle (she may not always finish the bottle but that's what I offer.) And finally she'll have a bedtime bottle (7oz) at 9:30. I started out just doing rice cereal before her lunchtime bottle for a week or two though. And now when it comes to the fruits and vegetables, I try to give her the same kind for 3-4 days straight before introducing something new to make sure she doesn't have a reaction to anything. WIC is giving us less formula now that she's on solids so I'm not entirely sure what I need to be doing with her bottles. I've had many friends tell me that at 6 months or so, they replaced one bottle with solid foods (likely a lunchtime bottle) and then one person said at 6 months old, her son is eating 3 jars of baby food a day. So what I just listed is what we're doing but I have no idea where we go from here lol. I see her doctor on the 31st so I plan to ask then. And don't feel bad for asking here or going on about it or whatever else... that's what we're here for. What this message board is meant for
There's a local mommy group I'm part of on Facebook and I seriously ask tons of questions every other day. They probably think I know nothing about raising my child with how many questions I continuously have lol!
However, if its been in the freezer more than a month ashlynn won't drink it, so I'm pouring most of it down the drain at the moment which breaks my heart coz I worked so hard!!
I don't know if it's something you guys do where you live or if it's even allowed but can you just donate the milk to another mom? Here we have tons of groups where you can donate un-needed milk to mothers who can't breastfeed or have no supply or low supply or whatever. There's plenty of local Facebook groups here where Moms can post saying "I need milk for my 3 month old son but can't produce enough to meet his needs, does anyone have any frozen supply they could donate?" Some women post saying "I have 50 oz of milk in a deep freezer that I do not need or that I could donate if someone is in need." Some women offer to be a wet nurse for another local mom and essentially pump milk JUST for that mom and her baby. Maybe you could do that to help another Mom out if it's an option where you live instead of feeling bad about having to dump it?
He opens his mouth for the spoon, but must of the food ends up on his face/bib. But it's fun giving him food!
Hannah does the same thing sometimes. It's mostly with her rice cereal and not so much the fruit/veggie purees but she opens her mouth wide, gets excited or fusses for the food and pushes half of it back out of her mouth. She definitely knows how to eat, swallow, etc so I think she's just bored with the rice cereal lol.
I know it's early, but what presents are you thinking of for Christmas for the babies?
I have NO idea what to do for her for Christmas. I'm sure our families are going to spoil her but I haven't thought about what I want to get her yet. Since it's our first Christmas shopping for 2 kids, I want to get as much of a head start as possible so I should probably think about it!
Waves - how did Hannah get on with the sippy cup? We tried with Sam with his and he didn't manage too well. In the last few days he has started holding his bottle so I think once he has it mastered we will try the sippy cup again.
She was sitting in her bouncer when we gave it to her. I went to hand it to her and she started trying to grab it right away. I put her hands on the handles so she knew where to hold it and she immediately went to put it in her mouth. We tried directing the nipple/spout into her mouth but she would get mad at us for messing with it haha. I think she thought we were trying to take it away. She would get it in her mouth correctly and just chew on it or play with it. OH held it in her mouth for a short time and she eventually started sucking on it but didn't seem to understand what was going on to realize she was drinking from the cup and could do it herself. The WIC nutritionist told me that sometimes it's better to use the cups that don't have the spill-proof feature or to just try letting them sip from the side of a regular cup with your help. However I'm going to stick with the spill-proof because with my luck, Hannah will drown herself and start choking lol. We only tried it that one day but I think we're going to try again soon.
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