Formula Fridays 9/18

[dreemkin]

Hi starting a day late. Story of my life lately lol.

Age:

Formula:

Solids:

Comments:

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over ____!

[elsmom]

Hi!!

Age: 7 months

Formula: Offering 6 oz 5x a day, but lately she doesn't eat all 6 oz very often...more like 4.5-5 oz

Solids: I tried to move a little faster with solids this week and give her apples and apricots in the morning and a chicken and brown rice dinner later in the day, but she definitely had a belly ache that night...so we are going to slow back down again :/ it makes me sad b/c she loves the solids but they don't seem to love her...

Comments: i know i'm way late on this participation thing, but it's actually pretty fun...i'm glad i got scared out of the woodwork!

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over keeping my dog away from the baby! Last week we had an incident where baby grabbed dog and dog snapped at baby. It was heartbreaking and now life is harder because I'm doing what i probably should've done all along...making sure dog and baby have no direct contact. so sad because you can tell they both really do love each other...

[emilyz320]

Hi starting a day late. Story of my life lately lol.

Age: 6.5 mo

Formula: five 6oz bottles. Sometimes a little more at bedtime.

Solids: fruits or veggies once a day at dinner

Comments: none!

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over weather over 80 degrees!

[dreemkin]

Age: 7 months (not going to add weeks anymore)

Formula: 6oz bottles generally 5 times a day.

Solids: doing well. I think she had a slight reaction to the plum so I'm going to avoid that. Latest new thing was butternut squash. Very seasonally appropriate. I want to do another type of protein this week like maybe turkey. Yougurt is next on the list I follow but I'm gonna avoid that bc of her allergy to regular milk protien formulas.

Comments: she loves the puffs and can now feed herself really well.

NBR GTKY: I'm so over the saying "keep calm and ____"! It's stupid and so overdone. Especially when they don't make sense for example: keep calm and apples. Wtf

[johanna]

Hi starting a day late. Story of my life lately lol.

Age: 7 months

Formula: 4oz first thing in the am and for her dream feed. 6 oz 3x in the middle. Maybe another 4oz snack bottle in the afternoon.

Solids: breakfast and dinner. We are doing BLW. I'm working on lunch but it is tough to fit in amongst the bottles.

Comments: nothing special.

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over my dogs shedding everywhere! (and the DD crawling around and collecting all the fur on her pants).

[GeekBeagle]

Age: 6.5 months

Formula: 5-7oz 5x/day

Solids: Veggies at dinner and just started fruit for breakfast today. He's really not liking it and it's difficult to get him to eat at all. We're just doing purees. Any tips?

Comments:

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over ____! having colds. It's just one after the other. Ugh daycare.

[dreemkin]

GeekBeagle maybe you can try food combos with one he for sure likes or (if you are making your own) change the consistency. He might like it thicker or thinner. Or with bits of a protein like chicken.

And hopefully he's getting all these colds out of the way and he'll be super healthy in the future. I'm worried that my girls don't see enough germs being non day care and when they get into school (where attendance is important) they'll be sick and miss a lot.

[taberbtb]

Age: 7.5m

Formula: We were at 3x 6.5oz with a 7oz bedtime bottle but this week that all went out the window.

Solids: Usually a little bit of whatever I am having for breakfast and also at dinner time.

Comments: DD had an absolutely awful cold last week and had a really hard time drinking from the bottle since she couldn't breathe through her nose. The most I could get her to take was 4oz at once. I upped her solids and was giving her formula from an open cup so she was at least getting something into her. She was also back to 2 night feedings since she wasn't getting enough through out the day. Hopefully now she can breathe again we can get back to normal.

[abseptember]

Age: 7.5 mths

Formula: 24-30 oz/day in 5-6oz bottles

Solids: 3x/day about 2oz plus puffs... this is partially out of convenience since older DD and I both need to eat and I need to keep these 2 contained while we are eating.

Comments: these boys seem to like food they can chew on more than purees. I've been trying to do more BLW.

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over.... trying to keep 2 babies away from older DDs toys, climbing up the walls/play house/anything/everything, heading into danger in different directions, etc. I feel like all I do all day is scoop babies away from potential injuries.

[jensoprano82]

Age: 8 months Wednesday!!!

Formula: 6.5 oz 5x a day

Solids: I'm now throwing anything single ingredient and small enough for him to play with at him. He's having a lot of fun being part of dinner.

Comments: is it possible puffs are making him gassy? He keeps waking up motn crying, then farts two or three times and falls back asleep.

NBR GTKY: Complete this sentence: I'm so over.... Elimination style reality tv shows. Stop sucking air time from quality fiction programming!!

[dreemkin]

I mentioned this on spam but Anna's first tooth is just coming up! Anyone else's have teeth already? Do you feel like this changes the food/solids game?

[taberbtb]

dreemkin I felt like I could give DD anything to chew on before teeth appeared. Now I have to be much more careful since she can actually "bite" pieces off.

abseptember B also prefers to self feed over purees. She will only tolerate so much spoon feeding before getting fussy, but hand her something she can feed herself and she's happy again!

I also forgot the GTKY: I am so over cleaning up the dogs water bowl when B decides to play in it. I really need to remember to pick it up when she's in the kitchen with me.

[abseptember]

Sept 22, 2015 7:16:23 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

I mentioned this on spam but Anna's first tooth is just coming up! Anyone else's have teeth already? Do you feel like this changes the food/solids game?

G has 8 teeth... yes, I typed that right, 8.  I guess we're done until the 1 yr molars???
E has 2 teeth.  They both seem to favor chunks over purees but purees fill them up faster than they can eat chunks. 

[abseptember]

Sept 22, 2015 9:57:13 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

dreemkin I felt like I could give DD anything to chew on before teeth appeared. Now I have to be much more careful since she can actually "bite" pieces off.

abseptember B also prefers to self feed over purees. She will only tolerate so much spoon feeding before getting fussy, but hand her something she can feed herself and she's happy again!

I also forgot the GTKY: I am so over cleaning up the dogs water bowl when B decides to play in it. I really need to remember to pick it up when she's in the kitchen with me.

That's pretty much how our dinners go too... except after awhile they get frustrated with self feeding and start screaming at me again to spoon feed them.  E is better at self feeding than G though. 

[abseptember]

Thought of another comment...
I decided to try level 3 nipples. E does great with them but G sputters and chokes at least once during the feeding. Since giving a few bottles on stage 3, E is much less tolerant of stage 2... he'll eat for a bit then play around and lose interest and only eat 1/2 the bottle. If I change to stage 3, he eats the whole bottle no problem. So now I get to try to keep the stage 3 bottle separate from the stage 2 until G is better able to tolerate the faster flow. These boys.... I think they are just trying to make me crazy

[abseptember]

Sept 20, 2015 21:19:45 GMT -5 GeekBeagle said:

Age: 6.5 months

Formula: 5-7oz 5x/day

Solids: Veggies at dinner and just started fruit for breakfast today. He's really not liking it and it's difficult to get him to eat at all. We're just doing purees. Any tips?

Comments:

NBR GTKY: complete this sentence: I'm so over ____! having colds. It's just one after the other. Ugh daycare.

Have you tried giving him small, easy to mash chunks?  Maybe he prefers "food" over purees?  If that doesn't help, then just keep offering, he'll get it  

[GeekBeagle]

abseptember No, we've only done purees since that's what the doctor said to do. I am interested in giving "real food" but I don't know where to begin.

The last two nights at "dinner" something clicked halfway through and he was really excited about eating. Opening his mouth and sticking his tongue out, licking his fingers, etc. But nothing for "breakfast". Hopefully it's a start.

[abseptember]

GeekBeagle I make quite a bit of the boys food. So I boil whatever it is I am making until it is soft and take out a portion to use as chunks and turn the rest into purees. They say as long as it is soft, easy to mash, and the size of your little finger nail, it is ok. I'd start with a food that you know your guy likes and tolerates well already. I try to let them self feed the pieces but this skill is definitely still developing so a lot of times I just feed it to them with my fingers. Over the weekend, we did tiny pieces of pancake while we out to breakfast and they loved it. A friend of mine just cuts up whatever they are having for dinner into small pieces and feeds her little guy that. Hopefully the food/puree thing clicks soon.... some kids just take longer, NBD.

[GeekBeagle]

Thanks, abseptember, that's helpful!