Just a PNR because, well, life. W still sleeps like shit, so all of you ladies back in that boat, welcome and I'm sorry you have to join W and I in said boat. Anybody else already start LO on puréed foods? My pedi told me to let W eat since she was showing a HUGE interest in food from the start of her 3rd month. She LOVES to eat! Also, she insists on trying errrything we are having, so if I'm drinking water, she wants a sip. This goes on all the time! My baby isn't so much a baby anymore and I'm sad about that. How do I make her slow down? Also, any tips on addressing the biting while nursing thing? I'm dying over here with these teeth of her's.
o2girl, when she bites you can pop her off the nipple and tell her "no". A few times of ending a meal abruptly and J got the picture (you can put her right back on if she's still hungry). DS tended to bite when he was full. Maybe W is just trying to tell you that mealtime is over?
aaemommy we've spent thousands to comply. Now that we are moving we spent money on things we didn't need. Also have to spend more money on a different style of safety gate and save to build that egress window so we can move back down and get our house back.
How is this? The color scheme of my living room is sage and we are moving it to a room with yellow and teal walls! Yum yum!
Just a PNR because, well, life. W still sleeps like shit, so all of you ladies back in that boat, welcome and I'm sorry you have to join W and I in said boat. Anybody else already start LO on puréed foods? My pedi told me to let W eat since she was showing a HUGE interest in food from the start of her 3rd month. She LOVES to eat! Also, she insists on trying errrything we are having, so if I'm drinking water, she wants a sip. This goes on all the time! My baby isn't so much a baby anymore and I'm sad about that. How do I make her slow down? Also, any tips on addressing the biting while nursing thing? I'm dying over here with these teeth of her's.
We haven't started food because O has no interest whatsoever. Lol I'm sure we will start trying in a couple weeks. I spooned her some breastmilk yesterday so see how she would do with the spoon and she handled it well.
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Can I just say how amazing it is how quickly guidelines change? DD was born F13, and everyone and their pedis were staunchly in the "food before 6 months is a hard no" camp.
Just a PNR because, well, life. W still sleeps like shit, so all of you ladies back in that boat, welcome and I'm sorry you have to join W and I in said boat. Anybody else already start LO on puréed foods? My pedi told me to let W eat since she was showing a HUGE interest in food from the start of her 3rd month. She LOVES to eat! Also, she insists on trying errrything we are having, so if I'm drinking water, she wants a sip. This goes on all the time! My baby isn't so much a baby anymore and I'm sad about that. How do I make her slow down? Also, any tips on addressing the biting while nursing thing? I'm dying over here with these teeth of her's.
We haven't started food because O has no interest whatsoever. Lol I'm sure we will start trying in a couple weeks. I spooned her some breastmilk yesterday so see how she would do with the spoon and she handled it well.
+1. Cam's pedi said no rush but she did recommend started before 6 months just because he'll be more likely to reject the new textures, etc. if we wait until after that point. But she said not to give him so much his milk intake decreases. Basically just to expose him to food.
The doctor is a firm 6 months for DS mostly due to his weight being on he low end and he says he will get more calories/benefit from just breast milk. DS is ridiculously interested in food though. He leaned forward and tried to take a bite out of my sandwich today. 😂 I'm sure he would have been shocked if he actually got any.
But this leads me to a question. At what point do you/can you start introducing straw cups/sippy cups/regular cups? Every once in awhile DH will hold his cup out to DS and DS will put his mouth on th cup like he's intending to drink lol
teraiin, you can do cups whenever. A straw cup is unlikely for him to be able to figure out yet, but a sippy cup or regular cup is possible (and messy for the regular cups). It's one of the methods they recommend for babies refusing bottles.
teraiin our pedi told us to offer a sippy with solids whenever we started. A teeny amount- like an ounce at a time. It was a looong time before A ever actually got anything out, but by the time he turned 1 and we took bottles away he had the sippy cups pretty well figured out and we never had any issues getting him to drink without the bottle.
On that note, she also highly recommend we never put BM/ formula in a sippy. Then they'll be more likely to take other liquids from sippy's when they reach that point where they need them.
teraiin, you can do cups whenever. A straw cup is unlikely for him to be able to figure out yet, but a sippy cup or regular cup is possible (and messy for the regular cups). It's one of the methods they recommend for babies refusing bottles.
Good to know! I was wondering since DS has been giving us such issues with taking bottles if we'd have more success from a cup but I'd hate to risk messing with nursing if he decided he liked cups better lol
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Proof I'm sleep deprived. This conversation just happened while I went down to the branch to get change for the vending machines.
Teller: What denominations? Me: All $1s, if you can spare them. Actually, a $10, a $5 and five $1's is okay. Don't want to clean you out. Teller: All $1's it is, K3. You do realize you work at a bank, right? If we run out of anything, the world is pretty much ending.
He has been doing pretty good ... he still has a lot of drainage and I can tell sometimes they're bothering him but he's such a trooper. We go tomorrow ..... I'm so glad they were able to get me in so fast!
He has been doing pretty good ... he still has a lot of drainage and I can tell sometimes they're bothering him but he's such a trooper. We go tomorrow ..... I'm so glad they were able to get me in so fast!
That's great they are seeing you tomorrow! Keep us posted!
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o2girl we have been doing solids (puréed) for about a month now .... we have done avocado, sweet potato, butternut squash and banana..... we now do about 1 ounce of food around 1 and 1 ounce around 7 ... he loves it!
Long post about nothing baby related, just me trying to think through some stuff.
I've been thinking about this for a while and I need some feedback. I don't want to put this out in the real world or even FB world yet, so here we are.
I'm a college professor. I spent (wasted?) my 20s with my nose in a book or in the lab and finished the Ph.D. I'm very proud of that and I love what I do, but I am sick to death of being underpaid and undervalued. There are a lot of perks to my job, such as a pretty flexible schedule outside of class times, but for 11 years of education I feel like I'm not paid enough. I'm up for tenure soon - no guarantee I'll get it - and I just found out that what I thought was a significant raise is pretty paltry. This big jump in status only comes with about a 6% raise, and this is after several years of no raises due to budget cuts. The only way to make significantly more is take on loads more responsibility by moving up in the administration, which would mean giving up my flexible schedule perks and being expected to be "on" 12-14 hours a day. Just not doable with little kids.
So I'm thinking of going back to school in fall 2018 once we're back to just one kid in daycare. The local medical school has a genetic counselor M.S. program that has a 100% placement rate after graduation and the average starting salary is more than double what I would make post-tenure. We met with a GC for this past pregnancy and it seemed like a lot of the job is educational, which I already do. I've had quite a few of the required classes, so I might be able to do it in three semesters. There would definitely be some hard parts to the job but I think it would be something I could handle. My only hesitation is that I feel like I'd be throwing away my whole graduate education.
teraiin, you can do cups whenever. A straw cup is unlikely for him to be able to figure out yet, but a sippy cup or regular cup is possible (and messy for the regular cups). It's one of the methods they recommend for babies refusing bottles.
I transitioned to a straw cup for DS1 starting at 7mo. He got the hang of it around 9mo. Harder any earlier than that.
fishbulb, do you love your job/current career track enough that it makes up for the pay discrepancies?
And don't feel like it's a waste of a degree. Times change, people change, circumstances change. And the GC position sounds like it could turn into something fulfilling. We met with them twice since DH has some mutant DNA and DD had a brain tumor.
And if you got the tenure position this go round, there's nothing to keep you from going down the alternate path once your DC situation changes, right?
I like making money. I make pretty darn good money, especially for a woman. I don't love my job. For me, the money makes up for the fact. If I had something I loved doing, I could probably tolerate being underpaid. But since I have no idea what it is I would love doing, I tolerate being paid well to do something I'm good at, even if it's not something I'm passionate about.
PS: I love posts that aren't baby related. There's a limited interesting factor on sleep/eating/development related.
Not to hijack the thread but k3am I wish I had known you when I had to make my job decision a couple of years ago. I think you are probably one of the most level headed thinkers about this type of thing haha
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I think that loving what I do now is the sticking point. I do, but it kills me that both MH and I have good professional jobs and we're still just getting by. I don't know if it's more important to me to love what I do or to just like my job but be able to provide the kids with things like travel experiences and music lessons that would be a stretch under our current budget.
fishbulb, there are several reasons I don't want to be faculty. Pay is one! I think of you still want to do the GC course a year from now, or even 6mo, go for it!! Your phD will always lend you knowledge!!
I think that loving what I do now is the sticking point. I do, but it kills me that both MH and I have good professional jobs and we're still just getting by. I don't know if it's more important to me to love what I do or to just like my job but be able to provide the kids with things like travel experiences and music lessons that would be a stretch under our current budget.
That's rough.
But I will say, as your salary increases, so do your expenses. We make good money, but we're not doing much in the way of travel, etc.
Post by tincupchalice on Sept 22, 2016 21:45:39 GMT -5
Hurray! It's fall, and no longer 100-bajillion degrees! upside: cool enough now to turn off the AC and trim that electric bill down accordingly downside: with the windows open, my neurotic dog can hear even more and is barking at every imaginary thing
Hurray! It's fall, and no longer 100-bajillion degrees! upside: cool enough now to turn off the AC and trim that electric bill down accordingly downside: with the windows open, my neurotic dog can hear even more and is barking at every imaginary thing
Our cocker spaniel has been more neurotic lately with her barking and it's driving DH crazy. He's never been one who can tune things out so for him he says its like nails on a chalk board. Me on the other hand can tune anything out which is good but can also be problematic lol
tincupchalice jelly over here. It's still eleventy billion degrees over here. AC is still broken, house is hot, humid, and sticky. And due to being outside so much the last few days trying to escape the sweltering house, I'm covered in super itchy quarter sized bug bites. I'm just a little bitter. Lol
Hurray! It's fall, and no longer 100-bajillion degrees! upside: cool enough now to turn off the AC and trim that electric bill down accordingly downside: with the windows open, my neurotic dog can hear even more and is barking at every imaginary thing
Our cocker spaniel has been more neurotic lately with her barking and it's driving DH crazy. He's never been one who can tune things out so for him he says its like nails on a chalk board. Me on the other hand can tune anything out which is good but can also be problematic lol
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