and it is a HIT in our household!!! Our 7 month old goes HAM for spaghetti!!
Foods included: homemade meat sauce and spaghetti with short vermicelli/fideo noodles (because mama has ✨anxiety✨ about pasta), mashed potatoes, and grated Colby Jack. A lot of it ended up on the floor but a surprising amount was actually eaten!!!
I was going to make ground beef but my husband accidentally seasoned all of it and it was way too salty for her 🥲🥲 but it was so cute hearing her go “mmmmm!” every time she bit the tomato (my husband hates tomato whereas I often eat it like an apple so obviously I win)
My seven month old LOVESSSSSS flavor and gnawing on stuff until it’s mush or until she gets a chunk and squirrels it inside her cheek. Does she actually consume any of it? 🤷🏻♀️
Food clockwise: tzatziki, hummus, toum (Lebanese garlic sauce), tinyyyyy bit of baba ghanoush, beef khorovads (Armenian bbq), cukes, shredded chicken khorovads.
I did add a second piece of meat, cuke quarter, and I topped off her hummus halfway through eating!
The meat was barbecued by my brother in law and everything was prepared/made from scratch by my mom!
I’ve been a partial supplier from the start. I think my supply would’ve been okay if I had known early on that some bodies just don’t respond well to certain electric pumps, since I never got a letdown before 25 minutes with an electric pump. But I was given a lot of misguided advice from a lactation consultant, so it was kind of doomed from the beginning.
I posted on this subreddit when I was around 10 weeks postpartum about how my life is revolving around pumping. I was pumping about 45 mins to an hour each time, sometimes a little more, and I was pumping every 2.5 hours. I was triple feeding by myself while my husband was at work, I wouldn’t leave the house because I needed to make use of what little time I had NOT pumping. I became an expert at holding my baby hovered over my pumps because she wouldn’t let me set her down or hold her any other way (hell of an arm workout!). I was so tired, so sore, experiencing crazy intense vasospasms and clogs, all to be making about 20% of my baby’s daily intake.
Then the wonderful souls of this community poured in to help. I got amazing feedback and tips, which helped me increase my supply to about 50-60% of my baby’s intake, after 13 weeks postpartum. I told myself I’ll only pump for 2 months, which became 4 months, which became 7.
I’m so happy that I learned so much about pumping and so far I have been able to help three of my postpartum friends increase their supply and successfully pump! I’m also happy to never be tethered to a machine, never feel the rage of getting my tubes caught on a drawer, never chug another bottle of coconut water, never wash another pump part (!!!).
For my last pump, I was able to make my baby one last breastmilk teether, which she will get to enjoy tomorrow.
Thank you all so much again for the kindness that you showed a stranger when she was spiraling. Happy Mother’s Day to you all 🩷
I’m sorry if this doesn’t make sense. We have been doing BLW since 5.5 and my baby loves it. She is now 7 months + 3 days old and has grown two bottom teeth and she is biting chunks off EVERYTHING. She used to chew so well but now she takes a chunk and it terrifies me. I let her work it out herself and watch her very attentively but it’s making me feel a lot less confident. For example, I gave her bread per the Solid Starts app - took a huge chunk and hoarded it in her mouth. Gave her big mango slices - took a huge chunk and kept gagging on it.
So should I start giving her tiny and thin slices now? She hasn’t developed her pincer grab yet so idk how successful it will be.
Thank you for your insight!! I really appreciate this community so much.
And if so, what is your go-to?
We are going to a Mother’s Day brunch tomorrow morning and my 7 month old has been doing BLW since around 5.5 months, but she is in her “give me whatever you’re eating” phase. If I so much as take a single bite in front of her, she dives forward to eat it too. I’d like to go to the restaurant prepared to give her something that likely won’t create a mess (she doesn’t really throw food down and I’m taking a high chair cover as well).
Any recommendations for easy and low-mess foods?
We are doing BLW with our 6.5 month old and I decided to bake chicken tonight. I made the long strips like it shows on the Solid Starts app but as soon as she starts eating it, she got a big chunk out and wouldn’t spit it out. I always let her work through the chunks herself but she just stuck that to the roof of her mouth and kept wanting to eat more. It terrified me and after maybe 5 minutes of encouraging her to spit it out, she finally did.
Now I’m wondering if I prepared it wrong and made it a choking hazard? Is there a certain way you’re supposed to make it or cut it to avoid this? I don’t ever cook but I’m trying to for her.
I usually feel confident in BLW and our ability to intervene but tonight was the first time I was legitimately terrified of choking.
I have a six month old who loves being out and about with me, but I’ve been having a bit of a hard time enjoying it lately because she’s soooo grabby and so active. We have been going to a coffee shop twice a week to get us both out of the house, but I’ve noticed that if I’m out with anyone else, it’s like she just has so much energy and she’s ready to burst.
I usually bring a book for her, some crinkle toys, a suction toy, and a couple of teethers, but it feels like I’m just rotating through them every 30 seconds.
Does anyone have any tips or tricks for going out with a six month old? Have you found something that works for you? I don’t necessarily need her to be fully busy, but just something to keep her a little engaged.