12/14 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

Questions/AW?

Sorry, y'all, I'm drawing a blank on a bonus question this week. Suggestions welcome!

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 9 months, 3 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Frozen only!

Solids? Yes, but we do a terrible job on weekends, I guess because there's always something going on. I need to do better.

Questions/AW? Can't think of anything!

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 10 + months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? BFing

Solids? Yuppers. I think I need to do a better job with giving LO more snacks between meals.

Questions/AW? What snacks is everyone handing out these days?

[cloe111479]

How old is your LO? 10 + months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just frozen

Solids? I think I am raising a carnivore. If she has puffs, meat, noodles, or veggies... she goes right to the meat. She doesn't like to feed herself breakfast, but for both lunch and dinner loves to feed herself.

Questions/AW? What snacks is everyone handing out these days? Puffs, yougurt melts, the crunchies.. I just got those little 1st cookie gerber things. She likes those.

[lilyelayne]

9 months + 1 week

Nursing.

Solids 3x a day. Snacks? When am I supposed to add a snack? Or is that if he's dropping nursing sessions?

mishka29 DS gets puffs (star shaped or crunchies) or yogurt melts if we put him in his high chair before supper is ready, or if we're at a restaurant to keep him occupied til the food arrives. I think once I'm done with the boxes of puffs I have, I'll switch to Cheerios and graham crackers. Maybe some dried fruit?

[junebugjam]

How old is your LO? Will be 10 months on Wednesday.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing morning & night. Dropped the pump completely. Tried to supplement but it's failing miserably. My baby won't drink formula.

Solids? We've done eggs. Want to try PB on toast but still a little nervous.

Questions/AW? Help me please, my baby won't drink bottles! It started when I tried to supplement so now I feel like he thinks every bottle is something he doesn't like. Occasionally I can get him to drink juice from a bottle but he even rejects breast milk bottles and I'm wasting my frozen stash. It's breaking my heart and I'm worried he's not drinking enough. Plus the frozen is running low because I incorrectly assuming I could switch him to formula for the last two months....

[mishka29]

Dec 14, 2015 17:06:58 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

9 months + 1 week

Nursing.

Solids 3x a day. Snacks? When am I supposed to add a snack? Or is that if he's dropping nursing sessions?

mishka29 DS gets puffs (star shaped or crunchies) or yogurt melts if we put him in his high chair before supper is ready, or if we're at a restaurant to keep him occupied til the food arrives. I think once I'm done with the boxes of puffs I have, I'll switch to Cheerios and graham crackers. Maybe some dried fruit?

When it comes to snacks I'm thinking of daycare schedule where they have two snacks. Here's where I would add it (or just do better lol)

6 wake - nurse
7 breakfast
8 nap
9 wake - nurse
10:30 snack
12 lunch
1 nap
3 (if I'm lucky) wake - nurse
4 snack
5:30 dinner

I think you nurse more frequently than I do so maybe snacks aren't really needed. I nurse 4 times a day (after waking and before bed). So for us there are some long gaps between a nursing and a meal which is where I think a snack would be helpful.

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 10 months tomorrow

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just nursing because we're on vacation

Solids? 3-4 times a day. Sometimes extra rice cake snacks because he sees us eating something and wants to eat too. Baby rice cakes are kinda tasty so I don't blame him

Questions/AW? Baby led weaners and others who give their children lots of finger food, what do you about fruit skins stuck in the mouth like apple peel or orange pith? I've been doing a mouth sweep because he can't chew and swallow it after the fruit part is gone.

Snacks:
Rice cakes
Carrot or cheese puffs
Fruit (mainly oranges and strawberries)
Yogurt
Bread

[lilyelayne]

mishka29 I love seeing our babies daily routines. It makes me stop and consider what DS does.
I do nurse more frequently than you do. But I think my mornings are later & slower compared to a lot of F15 ladies, including those who SAH and don't have to make it to daycare/work. DS is still in his pjs when your LO is taking her first nap lol!

730- wake
8- nurse
9- breakfast
1030- nurse
11- nap
1- wake, nurse
2- lunch
330- nurse? Sometimes not?
4- nap
5- wake, sometimes nurse? Sometimes not?
6- supper
730- nurse
8- sleep
(1230- nurse
4-5- nurse)

[lilyelayne]

junebugjam I hate that you're struggling with the switch to formula. You could also ask on the BF board if you don't get helpful feedback here. (Edit for clarity- hate that it's hard, don't hate that you're switching!)

seamonster DS has learned to spit things like that out, though sometimes he puts them back in his mouth to try again. If he's really stuck on something and won't give up, I'll take it out of his mouth.

[mishka29]

Dec 14, 2015 21:16:46 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

mishka29 I love seeing our babies daily routines. It makes me stop and consider what DS does.
I do nurse more frequently than you do. But I think my mornings are later & slower compared to a lot of F15 ladies, including those who SAH and don't have to make it to daycare/work. DS is still in his pjs when your LO is taking her first nap lol!

730- wake
8- nurse
9- breakfast
1030- nurse
11- nap
1- wake, nurse
2- lunch
330- nurse? Sometimes not?
4- nap
5- wake, sometimes nurse? Sometimes not?
6- supper
730- nurse
8- sleep
(1230- nurse
4-5- nurse)

Since I'm still on mat leave until January I wish I could get those later slower mornings. We are still doing the early wake ups. We're going back to our sleep training to hopefully get things under control now that there is no illness or teething.

[Deleted]

How old is your LO? 9mo 1w

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing.

Solids? Yes 4x a day; breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. Although the afternoon snack is just as big as the other meals so it's more of an early dinner/second lunch.

Questions/AW?
Re: snacks, I give fruit, yoghurt, bread w pb or cheese or oatmeal.
I try to make sure at least 2 hours passes between meals bc that was a recommendation given to me by a dentist. Our days generally look like this:

8-wake up
9-breakfast+nursing
10:30-nap
12-wake up, lunch+nursing
15-snack+nursing
15:30-nap
17-wake up
18-dinner+nursing
20-nursing then bedtime

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 9.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing and pumping

Solids? 3x a day when i'm home, 1-2x a day when i'm not. but we're asking our au pair to start consistently giving her solids this week.

Questions/AW? Sleep is still horrendous at our house. I'm spending at least part of most nights on her floor. I guess my AW is that we're still alive?

QTKY suggestion: What's your favorite Christmas cookie or December holiday food/drink? Does anyone actually drink egg nog? I think my favorite cookie is a chocolate crinkle.

[agm04]

cloe111479 we aren't really doing snacks yet, but sometimes we do puffs. DD loves frozen fruit, still partially frozen, and that's pretty easy. Lower sodium deli meat?

seamonster it depends on what it is. I usually grate apples if I give them to her, so skin isn't a problem. She really loves frozen cherries (I cut them into pieces), and the skin isn't a problem. I guess for anything that's a real problem, I'd try my best to remove it. But really that means I just wouldn't give her that food, bc I'm lazy.

lilyelayne graham crackers...have you found any without honey? i keep wanting to buy them for her, but i only see the ones with honey!

[lilyelayne]

agm04 I figured it would be okay since it's cooked not raw honey. Guess I could be wrong?

[MapleMomma]

Dec 14, 2015 20:45:30 GMT -5 seamonster said:

How old is your LO? 10 months tomorrow

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just nursing because we're on vacation

Solids? 3-4 times a day. Sometimes extra rice cake snacks because he sees us eating something and wants to eat too. Baby rice cakes are kinda tasty so I don't blame him

Questions/AW? Baby led weaners and others who give their children lots of finger food, what do you about fruit skins stuck in the mouth like apple peel or orange pith? I've been doing a mouth sweep because he can't chew and swallow it after the fruit part is gone.

Snacks:
Rice cakes
Carrot or cheese puffs
Fruit (mainly oranges and strawberries)
Yogurt
Bread

J spits the peels out which is a large focus of BLW. I want her to learn control where I can supervise. In 5 months I've only had to interfere a handful of times (2-3). If your LO doesn't do well with the peels, I'd peel the apples first.

[seamonster]

Dec 15, 2015 21:28:24 GMT -5 MapleMomma said:

Dec 14, 2015 20:45:30 GMT -5 seamonster said:

How old is your LO? 10 months tomorrow

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just nursing because we're on vacation

Solids? 3-4 times a day. Sometimes extra rice cake snacks because he sees us eating something and wants to eat too. Baby rice cakes are kinda tasty so I don't blame him

Questions/AW? Baby led weaners and others who give their children lots of finger food, what do you about fruit skins stuck in the mouth like apple peel or orange pith? I've been doing a mouth sweep because he can't chew and swallow it after the fruit part is gone.

Snacks:
Rice cakes
Carrot or cheese puffs
Fruit (mainly oranges and strawberries)
Yogurt
Bread

J spits the peels out which is a large focus of BLW. I want her to learn control where I can supervise. In 5 months I've only had to interfere a handful of times (2-3). If your LO doesn't do well with the peels, I'd peel the apples first.

I think we are going to have to start peeling them. He'll eat the peels sometimes and other times he'll manage to eat everything but the peel. He doesn't like to spit things out and instead stores things in his mouth like a hamster.

[krispy83]

How old is your LO? 10 1/2 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing when together, pumping when I'm at work.

Solids? Tried eggs over the weekend, she loved them! Going to try peanut butter this weekend. I have no reason to suspect an allergy, but I still want to try it when DH is home just in case there's a problem.

Questions/AW? Nothing I can think of.

Regarding the peels/skin, if it's at all tough to chew, I peel it. Apples, etc. Some pears have really soft skin and she handles that fine. But I still peel most fruits and some veggies.

[agm04]

lilyelayne that makes sense actually. thanks.

I've given my girl eggs and peanut butter, but just wanted to throw out there that it's common for babies to do fine with the first exposure and react to a subsequent exposure. This just happened to my neighbor's son, and was a good reminder. Not at all trying to be alarmist, but it's smart to keep a close eye on them just in case! Not that anyone is putting their kid in front of a 3 course meal and leaving for a few hours.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 10 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping

Solids? Yes, usually twice a day.

Questions/AW? I'm counting down the days left that I have pumping. But I have been struggling pumping three times a day so I have only been pumping twice a day at work. It leads to a long stretch in the afternoon. I think it is starting to affect my supply, but it may just be that V is eating less these days. Has anyone else noticed their LO eating less?

[seamonster]

kartish DS eats about the same frequency mainly because I offer after 3 hours if he hasn't demanded milk. But the sessions are much shorter for the most part. Like he might be done in 5 minutes. He was also only taking 2 4oz bottles at daycare where before it was (the equivalent) of 3 5oz bottles.

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? 9 months, 2 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? All of the above.

Solids? He eats all the food.

Questions/AW? What snacks is everyone handing out these days? Little Man's new favorite snack is the Gerber Wagon Wheels, apple flavor. He only eats one per snack time (them things are 'uge!) and they have bits of real apple baked into them.