I was curious about the safety of freeze dried fruit, specifically freeze dried strawberries. To me they seem like puffs in the way that they kinda melt in the mouth but I went to check the app and couldn’t find anything on its safety. For reference my baby is 12 months old and does like puffs as an occasional snack and does really well with them.
My baby is almost a year old and basically her whole life I’ve just gone solely off her sleep cues. Recently there’s been more consistency to her sleep (for the most part) and she tends to sleep around the same times but then something happens and it throws her off for a week plus, but I’m not trying to structure her sleep really so I’m wondering if maybe it’s time to start giving her a little bit of structure. Should I start capping naps? Waking up by a certain time? Other suggestions?
Right now she wakes up between 7am and 8am on a normal day, usually goes down for a nap between 10:30 and 11:30, may sleep anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours and 15 minutes, then the second nap depends heavily on the first and bedtime is the same. Bedtime could end up being anywhere from 7:30 pm to 10:30pm depending on when she woke up from nap #2 or if she even took a nap #2. The one rule I have is that she doesn’t fall asleep after 5pm, unless for whatever reason she’s like frantically exhausted and can’t function, but that hasn’t happened but maybe like once or twice.
I feel like the days when she is in the best moods is when she naps around 11am for about an hour and around 3 or 4 for about an hour but then on those days she ends up not going to bed until like 9 or 10 pm so I end up not getting any time to myself all day long.
Any advice or insight would be much appreciated.
Baby has a little side dish of mommies broccoli cheddar soup with a deconstructed ham and cheese using shredded pieces of my baguette and a cup of water. We’re playing with the spoon right now.
I’ve been trying to get baby to drink from a bottle for a little while now and she always takes it pretty easily but then doesn’t actually suck more than 1/3 of an ounce down then spits the bottle out/plays with it. I know that sunflower lecithin can affect the smell so I’ve kinda just been trying to get through the stash where I know I was taking sunflower lecithin pretty religiously but I’m pretty sure I’m through that now. I smelled the milk as I was putting it into the bottle to warm up this morning and it still just smells so weird/bad. I warmed it then was like “you know what? What am I trying to feed my baby right now? I’m going to try a drop or two and see what I’m trying to give her.” And it tasted AWFUL. Like it lingered on my tongue for like over 5 minutes from literally two drops.
The thing is I cannot for the life of me figure out why it’s like this! She’s never been fussy at the breast so I would assume it comes out of the tap tasting ok. Every time I pump I immediately pour it into the freezer bags after labeling the bag and they go immediately into the freezer. When I thaw I do one of two things, I either put the milk in the fridge to slowly thaw over night for the morning or I just thaw it in cool water to try and use within the next 30 minutes.
Please help me figure out why my breast milk is so foul! I want to go back to work but if all my milk tastes like a combo of pennies and cheese I can’t do that to my poor baby for 13 hours a day multiple days a week.
So my husband and I are going to visit a family member of his at the end of this week and his family member just kinda blindsided us with the fact we’ll have to sleep on an air mattress with our baby while we are staying there. I’m not cosleeping on an air mattress, that feels way too dangerous for me. So how do I safely get my baby to sleep while we are there?
Background info they live in Florida so the whole house is tile and my baby literally will not fall asleep without nursing/touching me. If we absolutely have to we could just get a hotel but I’d like to avoid that if possible.
My baby is almost a year old and I’m running into a problem where her toys are starting to take over my back seat. What are you using to contain the toys? My mom suggested like a basket that’s secured to the middle seat but I feel like she wouldn’t be able to reach over her car seat to actually get to the toys/see them. Does the basket work for you? Or do you have other methods for controlling the mess? TIA!
Has anyone else encountered this? My 9mo seems to be trying to transition herself to one nap a day and it just feels way too early. I give her literally every possible help and opportunity I feel like to take two naps a day but when I do she ends up staying awake 4.5+ hours in the evening anyway and she ends up not going to bed until like 9:30 or 10pm. This morning she was yawning and rubbing her eyes so I took her to our bed and tried nursing her to sleep and she just ate then popped right back up ready to take on the world. I predominantly just pay attention to her cues more so than paying attention to any kind of schedule/routine because she’s been low sleep needs her entire life but this just feels like TOO low sleep needs. The only routine I really have is that I won’t let her sleep past 7:30am so she doesn’t keep pushing her sleep back further and further. With the late bed time and two naps a day she is getting around 11 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period.
Has anyone else dealt with a baby trying to go down to one nap this early?
So my husband and I were raised pretty differently but ended up growing up to be very similar people as adults, he’s my best friend in the world and I can’t imagine my life without him. We have a 9mo baby and ever since I’ve been pregnant with her I’ve been dealing with what seems to me is him flip flopping hard core on whether he agree’s with me or his family on how to raise our child. If he actually disagrees with something I’m doing I’ve told him before I want him to tell me so we can talk about it but it always seems like he only ever has a problem with how I’m raising our daughter when we are around his family. In fairness I have definitely changed my opinion on some things since becoming a mother because my idea’s of what motherhood would be like vs what it actually has been are very different so I’m going my best in the situation I’ve been given every day to try and raise the best human I can. My husband works night shift so he’s gone at night and sleeps during the day so I am really really the primary caregiver, like I’m on my own with her 85% of the time which isn’t easy by any means but I get better at it as she gets older and I don’t really mind it so much anymore, I really just ask him for time to take a shower most days and I’m content.
With my time at home I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading and I think I’ve developed my own flavor of parenting that is working for us, I’d say I tend to lean more into the attachment parenting style so far and his family leans more towards trying to teach and encourage independence as soon as possible, which is fine it just doesn’t feel right for me and my daughter. Because of this though I’ve had to deal with his family constantly criticizing my way of caring for our daughter to him when I’m not around because they don’t agree with it. They stopped bringing it up to me because I never gave them an answer they could argue with or respond to, always something along the lines of “well, I think this way is the best way to go about it for us so that’s what I’m going to try first. If it doesn’t work then we’ll adjust and try something else but I’m always going to make the effort to try and do what I feel is the best for her even if it’s harder for me.” So instead they just complain about me when I’m not around.
Well now that’s causing problems for us because on the day to day my husband will say things to me like “you’re such a great mom, you were made for this, you do such a great job with her.” To now we’re on a vacation with his family and two days ago he told me “I think we have fundamental differences in how to raise a child.” To yesterday he said “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that, I’m on your team and agree with you.” To today him saying “how long are you going to keep this up?” And “you know talking about neuroscience when people ask you about parenting makes you sound hoity toity.” I asked him why he never brings this up when we are at home because I want him to tell me things he disagrees with me on at home so we can actually talk and have a conversation about it and come to an agreement because it’s not just my daughter it’s his daughter too, why does he only ever bring this stuff up when we’re around his family and he gives me the answer “well I never see you cuz I’m at work” but we see each other on his days off and when I tried to talk about it here he says “I just want to enjoy my vacation.”
So idk what to do. I can’t seem to get him to communicate with me so I’m not sure how to move forward with this situation.
If there’s any questions you have or if you think I may have left some info out please ask me because I want the best remedy possible but I don’t want I feel like I’m writing a novel and rambling on with irrelevant info to the situation. Thank you in advance!
This sub makes me so depressed sometimes seeing all the posts about 8 month olds who are like actually consuming meals and not just throwing food to the dogs, so I need some reassurance to keep going and not give up.
I started BLW right at 6 months old, I had to take a break for about a week around 7 months because the stress was just too much for me. After that week it seemed like something changed for her and she stopped gagging to the point of turning purple at every little thing she put in her mouth, so that was a win. But since then she literally has only swallowed like two, maybe three pieces of food her whole life. She sits with me for every meal and usually spits out the few pieces of food she actually gets into her mouth even if she doesn’t gag on them. I make sure she nurses before we sit at the table and that she isn’t tired but she still won’t sit at the table willingly longer than 20 minutes, and I end up usually having to hold her while I finish my food or just take my food into her play pen with her to finish eating. Also I know BLW doesn’t require teeth but she also doesn’t have any teeth at all yet.