I'm going to an out of town wedding today with DH. My parents are coming up to watch both kids. As of right now I feel like a kid on XMas. I am so excited to ditch these two and float in a pool drinking cocktails until Sunday.
That sounds amazing, @poppyc8! Esp since it's windy as fuck here!!
Mine: I try not to shake my patients hands so I don't have to wash them each and every time. My hands get so raw from washing or using hand sanitizer 12 times a day!
That sounds amazing, @poppyc8! Esp since it's windy as fuck here!!
Mine: I try not to shake my patients hands so I don't have to wash them each and every time. My hands get so raw from washing or using hand sanitizer 12 times a day!
Thanks girl!
I don't blame you. I'm cleaning and packing our entire house this week and next and my hands are like sandpaper no matter how much lotion I use.
I hope this makes you guys laugh and not think I'm a big bully background: in my office, I usually listen to music with my headphones on...I don't want to give my elderly patients a heart attack if some filthy rap song starts.
I just had a racist as fuck patient. When I walked in the room, he asked me not to "jihad him or whatever". Um ok. When I ignored him and started the eye exam, he started asking about religion "you're not a Muslim or Arab are you?" Normally I have no problem talking to patients about this as long as it's purely conversational. Plus, my wedding pictures confuse some patients since in one I have a white dress on with henna all over my hands and the other I have on Indian clothes with flower garlands on. So usually it's a fun conversation to tell them that I'm Christian but also do a lot of Hindu cultural customs. But this guy, fuck this guy. I wasn't going to make him feel better and say I was Christian, it was none of his business. And his eye exam would be no different if I was a different religion. I just told him that I was there to do his eye exam, not talk about religion.
After I put in his eye drops, he was sitting in the exam room, just waiting for the drops to kick in. I went into my office and found the most Indian/Arabic song I could find in my music and blasted it. I played it three times in a row before I went and finished up the exam. He did not say a word the rest of the time. I childishly felt way better.
lol i love how the dog is watching too pghtruelove!
My dog and my child are obsessed with screens! I had this dream about how my kids would never play video games and I would limit TV time to just with family... Jules gets so upset and the only I have found to calm her down is by putting the iPad with kids apps on. And the only way I can get her to take a nap is my sitting her in front of the TV. I try extremely hard everyday to find something different but then I give up around 5-6 pm for both of them. (This pic was from yesterday)
I'm having anxiety about BLW because I won't really be able to cook with salt. I've been practising cooking without it, but when salt is added to the individual dish it doesn't taste the same, at all. I also use a lot of spice, which I have to cut down on. Sincerely dreading it, and DB is really ready to start. I feel like cooking is going to suck now.
I didn't think about this! It's going to be extremely hard for us since SO is on a high sodium diet for his health.
I guess I don't understand then. If you're dreading how much it's going to suck, why suffer through it if there are other options?
I understand and it's also to help babies explore flavors and eating more independently but it also largely done for the sake of convenience.
Edit it because words.
I feel that it's a healthier option for my baby.
Breastfeeding was excruciating for the better part of the first two months. I didn't explore other options, I suffered through and kept with it, now it's great. I imagine the same is true of BLW. I was just expressing anxiety and that it's not the all amazing option its presented to be.
if I choose to give LO purée veggies and fruit how is that less healthy then BLW?
On the BLW thing, I gave bits of sliced avocado, steamed rice, and banana to start so no worries about salt. Then we moved to bits of whatever we had at a restaurant or at home so I didn't worry about sodium that was added during prep. But I'm a laissez faire type of parent...
FFFC: Having beer for breakfast as hubs and I fly out for a kid free weekend.
tatersalad, where are you guys flying off to? I'm so jealous
I, too, thought BLW was more about textures and playing with foods and baby to learn to move the food back to swallow. My kid has zero interest in food right now, but always watches and grabs for MH beer bottle or my glass of wine. He never grabs for our water bottles or any other drink!
Post by periwinkledaydreams on Nov 13, 2015 10:29:30 GMT -5
I'm a really spicy cook and SO and I are both spice lovers, there's no way we could cut down for our tastes to the point that our dinners would be palatable to LO, at least until she's quite a bit older. My plan is to do a little modified version.. so if Im cooking a dinner that includes say, potatoes and broccoli, I'll just have a small pot on the side burner and boil a few pieces plain separately for her. Say I'm making a casserole type dish, before I mix everything together I figure I'll put the basics (macaroni, veggies, whatever) in a separate container unseasoned.
I say this now, we'll see how long it lasts once it's in practice.
nchauhan, you have a much better filter than I do. I wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut and stay so professional. People fucking suck. He probably ran home to post on FB that his eye doctor gave him the jihad. It also makes me think of this.
FFFC: We heard the baby wake up this morning. Two minutes later DS1 woke up and came out of his room. He went right into the baby's room and we heard him talking to the baby and then reading him a book. They baby never started crying or fussing so we rolled over and went back to sleep for almost half an hour and let the almost 9 year old continue to entertain him.
Post by beersandweirs on Nov 13, 2015 11:02:06 GMT -5
FFFC: We "sleep trained" our baby (I don't really like that term).
It wasn't something that I ever really thought I would do this early, or maybe at all. But what we were doing was. not. working. Baby was super fussy and tired all the time, which meant mom and dad were, too. It was not a decision we came to lightly, but we had to make a change. She surprisingly took to it very well, and now we have a happy more playful baby and mom and dad are well rested and more capable at dealing with the not so happy times. I don't regret doing it one bit.
FFFC: We "sleep trained" our baby (I don't really like that term).
It wasn't something that I ever really thought I would do this early, or maybe at all. But what we were doing was. not. working. Baby was super fussy and tired all the time, which meant mom and dad were, too. It was not a decision we came to lightly, but we had to make a change. She surprisingly took to it very well, and now we have a happy more playful baby and mom and dad are well rested and more capable at dealing with the not so happy times. I don't regret doing it one bit.
Did you do full out extinction or ferber's check and console in intervals? I'm curious how long it took?
FFFC: We "sleep trained" our baby (I don't really like that term).
It wasn't something that I ever really thought I would do this early, or maybe at all. But what we were doing was. not. working. Baby was super fussy and tired all the time, which meant mom and dad were, too. It was not a decision we came to lightly, but we had to make a change. She surprisingly took to it very well, and now we have a happy more playful baby and mom and dad are well rested and more capable at dealing with the not so happy times. I don't regret doing it one bit.
Did you do full out extinction or ferber's check and console in intervals? I'm curious how long it took?
We did the Sleep Lady Shuffle, which is basically sitting in a chair next to the crib and soothing them with mostly your voice, and then moving the chair progressively farther away every 3 nights. The shuffle lasts 12 days, but we did nights and naps a week staggered, so we just finished with naps.
The longest she ever cried was night one, she cried for 40 minutes. Which sucked, but the next night was only like 20 and then even less the next night. Now she kind of whines or talks to herself until she falls asleep and she wakes up much less often in the middle of the night, too.
@babybean9 My sister does BLW and she hasn't really changed much of her cooking. She always starts with like bananas, or avocados like the other woman have stated. I think the only thing she changes about her cooking after the little ones have eaten the soft foods for a while is no honey. But we also never really cook with salt, mom never did as we were growing up, so we learned not to cook with it growing up. But the other night we did dinner with them and my niece and nephew (twins) are almost 10 months and they had everything that was on the table, Chicken, a little bit of lettuce, Rice. I also don' think that you have to cut down on spice.. If anything as long as its not SUPER spicy, I would think it would be good for your little one to be exposed to different spices. When you have your 6 month check up talk to your pediatrician.
I'm having anxiety about BLW because I won't really be able to cook with salt. I've been practising cooking without it, but when salt is added to the individual dish it doesn't taste the same, at all. I also use a lot of spice, which I have to cut down on. Sincerely dreading it, and DB is really ready to start. I feel like cooking is going to suck now.
FWP. Cook something else.
Señor Thor only eats his avocado I mix some chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, and onion powder into it.
FFFC: We "sleep trained" our baby (I don't really like that term).
It wasn't something that I ever really thought I would do this early, or maybe at all. But what we were doing was. not. working. Baby was super fussy and tired all the time, which meant mom and dad were, too. It was not a decision we came to lightly, but we had to make a change. She surprisingly took to it very well, and now we have a happy more playful baby and mom and dad are well rested and more capable at dealing with the not so happy times. I don't regret doing it one bit.
I'm doing this now and even with her screaming (just finished day 2) I'm sleeping great!
I'm a really spicy cook and SO and I are both spice lovers, there's no way we could cut down for our tastes to the point that our dinners would be palatable to LO, at least until she's quite a bit older. My plan is to do a little modified version.. so if Im cooking a dinner that includes say, potatoes and broccoli, I'll just have a small pot on the side burner and boil a few pieces plain separately for her. Say I'm making a casserole type dish, before I mix everything together I figure I'll put the basics (macaroni, veggies, whatever) in a separate container unseasoned.
I say this now, we'll see how long it lasts once it's in practice.
Coming out of lurking to say this is what I did for DS1 (still do) and plan on doing for this LO too. DS1 really prefers things plain. So for example, if I'm making a greek orzo salad, I just keep his plate nearby while I'm doing the chopping and throw some cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and feta aside on his plate before I mix together the whole salad with dressing/pepper flakes. I do this for almost every single meal.
My FFFC is that I never used less salt in meals or used low sodium veggie stock in soups/stews. DS just got it regular, it never even occurred to me to omit salt.
if I choose to give LO purée veggies and fruit how is that less healthy then BLW?
I said a healthier option for my baby, not all babies. I didn't mean healthier as in biologically superior. Babies tend to be less likely to choke, have broader food preferences, better dexterity, social benefits, learning portion control, less likely to be obese etc.
I'm not saying it's better over all, it's just better for my family. There are pros and cons to all options. I wasn't trying to start a debate.
This must be why DD is so clumsy. I fed too much rice cereal. Poor firstborn kid. Good thing I have my shit together now.
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