Gave Abby sweet potatoes tonight! That marks her second solid food. She seemed to like them better than the peas! She would open her mouth eagerly when she saw the spoon and stick out her tongue. She also sucked all the food off the spoon so it was clean, where with the peas she would leave peas inside the spoon part!
So those seem to be a hit. Not too surprising as they are a little more sweet. I guess it's a good thing b/c she is going to get those for about 2 more days. Next, I think we'll introduce carrots or green beans.
She was trying to chew on things a lot today. She was gumming down on her bib after her dinner... I keep looking for Sophie the Giraffe for cheap, but I think I might just suck it up & spend the $20 b/c I think she'll like teething with that, and it'll be easier for her to hold. She does gum on one of those water filled teething rings, but she doesn't really get the concept of holding the teether and then putting it in her mouth. I've been holding it for her, haha.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
starting solid food!
We started Abby on solid food on Nov 21st. We started with just regular old baby rice cereal. We were all ready with our phones for photo & video and she barely even reacted!! She was just like, Oh ok we are doing this now? I'm eating with a spoon? That's cool.
She did seem to enjoy it, and she had no problem figuring out the spoon. In fact, she was barely even phased by the spoon, as I said. I had initially bought those metal spoons with the rubbery coating but I actually went out & got the Munchkin brand spoons b/c they are more spoon like as opposed to flat, and it's way easier to feed her.
We had her eat the rice cereal for maybe a week and a half before introducing veggies. I was going to start with fruit but everyone said you are supposed to start with veggies, b/c if you start with fruit they won't want to eat the veggies. We gave her peas about 3 days ago and again, barely any reaction from her! LOL.
She does seem to enjoy the solid food. She sticks out her tongue when she sees the spoon coming and I think she is starting to recognize the bowl & spoon when we come toward her. She is still only eating about a teaspoon of cereal at a time but we have been giving it to her in the thicker consistency and she is enjoying that. She eats about a tablespoon of the peas...we are going to do sweet potatoes tomorrow night so stay tuned for how that goes :)
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We had Thanksgiving at my house this year...I thought Abby would be really overwhelmed with all the people (esp my family as they are LOUD) but she did ok. Obviously Maria and I were busy the whole time, so she was with a lot of other people: Caren, Nicole, Deanna, Caren's mom, and she did great. I managed to keep her on her schedule, too. (Kudos for mommy!)
She had a moment of being overwhelmed downstairs. We bought the high chair down there since that is where we had it set up for everyone to eat...and I guess all the people & the unfamiliar area (we are barely ever in the basement -- no furniture down there!) freaked her out! I wasn't down there, but Howie said that he sat down w/ his food & she looked around and got that quivery lip and that scared look in her eyes and started crying. We took her upstairs where it was quiet and she was ok. I also had to bring her in the bedroom to calm down for a bit so she would take her bottle, b/c she was crying in the living room. But overall she did really good, so I'm glad for that. Next year will be a bit easier since she'll be almost a year and a half old.
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Speaking of which, someone is going to be 5 months old soon!!
These days she is blowing lots of raspberries, enjoys playing with her big bendy ball, chewing on all sorts of things, watching the cats (she smiles when she sees them now), and grabbing her toys if she is in a sitting position. She can roll over but she seems lazy about it, as in, she doesn't want to. She really dislikes tummy time. She starts to cry (like really cry, with real tears!) if you don't pick her up after a while. I was really trying to get her to do tummy time this morning and I wasn't picking her up right away and she was pretty upset by the time I did pick her up!
She likes to sleep on her side. Sometimes she just immediately goes on her side & starts to suck her thumb as soon as you lay her down. She enjoys her projector before she goes to sleep too.
She did seem to enjoy it, and she had no problem figuring out the spoon. In fact, she was barely even phased by the spoon, as I said. I had initially bought those metal spoons with the rubbery coating but I actually went out & got the Munchkin brand spoons b/c they are more spoon like as opposed to flat, and it's way easier to feed her.
We had her eat the rice cereal for maybe a week and a half before introducing veggies. I was going to start with fruit but everyone said you are supposed to start with veggies, b/c if you start with fruit they won't want to eat the veggies. We gave her peas about 3 days ago and again, barely any reaction from her! LOL.
She does seem to enjoy the solid food. She sticks out her tongue when she sees the spoon coming and I think she is starting to recognize the bowl & spoon when we come toward her. She is still only eating about a teaspoon of cereal at a time but we have been giving it to her in the thicker consistency and she is enjoying that. She eats about a tablespoon of the peas...we are going to do sweet potatoes tomorrow night so stay tuned for how that goes :)
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We had Thanksgiving at my house this year...I thought Abby would be really overwhelmed with all the people (esp my family as they are LOUD) but she did ok. Obviously Maria and I were busy the whole time, so she was with a lot of other people: Caren, Nicole, Deanna, Caren's mom, and she did great. I managed to keep her on her schedule, too. (Kudos for mommy!)
She had a moment of being overwhelmed downstairs. We bought the high chair down there since that is where we had it set up for everyone to eat...and I guess all the people & the unfamiliar area (we are barely ever in the basement -- no furniture down there!) freaked her out! I wasn't down there, but Howie said that he sat down w/ his food & she looked around and got that quivery lip and that scared look in her eyes and started crying. We took her upstairs where it was quiet and she was ok. I also had to bring her in the bedroom to calm down for a bit so she would take her bottle, b/c she was crying in the living room. But overall she did really good, so I'm glad for that. Next year will be a bit easier since she'll be almost a year and a half old.
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Speaking of which, someone is going to be 5 months old soon!!
These days she is blowing lots of raspberries, enjoys playing with her big bendy ball, chewing on all sorts of things, watching the cats (she smiles when she sees them now), and grabbing her toys if she is in a sitting position. She can roll over but she seems lazy about it, as in, she doesn't want to. She really dislikes tummy time. She starts to cry (like really cry, with real tears!) if you don't pick her up after a while. I was really trying to get her to do tummy time this morning and I wasn't picking her up right away and she was pretty upset by the time I did pick her up!
She likes to sleep on her side. Sometimes she just immediately goes on her side & starts to suck her thumb as soon as you lay her down. She enjoys her projector before she goes to sleep too.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
poor little neglected baby blog!
abby has been good these days. she is getting to be a lot of fun now. she laughs more often, and the silliest things are so funny to her. she loves if you crouch down in front of her swing and let her hit you in the face with her feet!
she loves tv, which i'm not sure is a good thing or bad thing, but whatever. she loves baby tv, and super why on pbs kids. on the baby tv channel, she loves vocabuLARRY and smiles so big when he comes on. she also likes rainbow horse and some of the other shows. but those are the ones that stand out. she smiles and laughs for a tv show she likes!!
she loves to play with her 'my pal violet.' violet sings and says abby's name and abby gets really excited, especially for the singing b/c her collar lights up. abby is a big fan of anything that lights up. we have a baby einstein take along tunes toy & it has lights that go in time w/ the music and she loves that too.
she's still such an easygoing baby. she barely ever cries, UNLESS you are feeding her and then take away the bottle to burp her. that makes her pretty mad and she gets that high pitched scream. i think she is going to have a temper when she gets older, so i guess we need to get prepared for that!!
i haven't started the solids yet....we've been keeping track of her formula & she's not eating over 32oz a day and i don't think she is ready yet anyway. she still does the infant tongue thrust thing and she doesn't seem like she needs the rice cereal yet. maybe we'll try closer to the end of the month. maybe she can't have thanksgiving dinner but she can have mushy baby rice cereal. yay? LOL
abby has been good these days. she is getting to be a lot of fun now. she laughs more often, and the silliest things are so funny to her. she loves if you crouch down in front of her swing and let her hit you in the face with her feet!
she loves tv, which i'm not sure is a good thing or bad thing, but whatever. she loves baby tv, and super why on pbs kids. on the baby tv channel, she loves vocabuLARRY and smiles so big when he comes on. she also likes rainbow horse and some of the other shows. but those are the ones that stand out. she smiles and laughs for a tv show she likes!!
she loves to play with her 'my pal violet.' violet sings and says abby's name and abby gets really excited, especially for the singing b/c her collar lights up. abby is a big fan of anything that lights up. we have a baby einstein take along tunes toy & it has lights that go in time w/ the music and she loves that too.
she's still such an easygoing baby. she barely ever cries, UNLESS you are feeding her and then take away the bottle to burp her. that makes her pretty mad and she gets that high pitched scream. i think she is going to have a temper when she gets older, so i guess we need to get prepared for that!!
i haven't started the solids yet....we've been keeping track of her formula & she's not eating over 32oz a day and i don't think she is ready yet anyway. she still does the infant tongue thrust thing and she doesn't seem like she needs the rice cereal yet. maybe we'll try closer to the end of the month. maybe she can't have thanksgiving dinner but she can have mushy baby rice cereal. yay? LOL
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
4 month appointment
Abby went to the dr yesterday for her 4 month checkup. All looks well.
I thought she had an ear infection b/c she was grabbing at her a little bit, and she seemed really out of it the other night (just really tired and not very smiley or playful) but she seemed fine the next day & never spiked a fever. So I was relieved when the dr said her ears were fine! they did confirm she is probably a bit young to be teething, but said that she could be grabbing her ears when she is tired, and it’s just something that babies do sometimes. Although she said they DO do it when they are teething too. So I guess if you see your kid grabbing their ear there is a lot of different things to try & rule out first. LOL
She weighs 13 lbs 12 oz (40th percentile) and is 23 ¾ inches long (20th percentile). Everything is on track developmentally, so that’s always good. they said that she is ready to start solids, so I was pretty surprised! I was not expecting that at all! I figured they would say around 5 months. The dr said that if she is consistently eating over 32oz a formula a day, then she is ready for solids. So we are keeping track of that for the next few days to see where she is. They didn’t seem too pushy about it, and basically said that if we don’t feel comfortable or it’s not working after we start with the rice cereal, then we can go back to formula only. So I guess we’ll have to see.
I thought she had an ear infection b/c she was grabbing at her a little bit, and she seemed really out of it the other night (just really tired and not very smiley or playful) but she seemed fine the next day & never spiked a fever. So I was relieved when the dr said her ears were fine! they did confirm she is probably a bit young to be teething, but said that she could be grabbing her ears when she is tired, and it’s just something that babies do sometimes. Although she said they DO do it when they are teething too. So I guess if you see your kid grabbing their ear there is a lot of different things to try & rule out first. LOL
She weighs 13 lbs 12 oz (40th percentile) and is 23 ¾ inches long (20th percentile). Everything is on track developmentally, so that’s always good. they said that she is ready to start solids, so I was pretty surprised! I was not expecting that at all! I figured they would say around 5 months. The dr said that if she is consistently eating over 32oz a formula a day, then she is ready for solids. So we are keeping track of that for the next few days to see where she is. They didn’t seem too pushy about it, and basically said that if we don’t feel comfortable or it’s not working after we start with the rice cereal, then we can go back to formula only. So I guess we’ll have to see.
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