Well, we made it! I vowed that I would breastfeed exclusively until my baby was 6 months old. They’ve done studies that show starting earlier than that can cause obesity! And here we are. Of course, I bought boring old rice cereal, but I got fun things like banana, applesauce and green beans too.
So, I heard that you are supposed to start with rice cereal because it’s so bland. But, then I read something Dr. Sears wrote (I know, I’m a fanatic!) that said to start with banana if you breastfeed because of the sweetness.
I want to preface this by saying that my son wants to eat everything. I’m sure it’s the same with a lot of babies…if it is an object it’s going in the mouth. Not to mention that he wants to nurse all the time 
I thought he’d flip out (in a good way!) when he finally got to eat real food. So, I started feeding him the banana. The look on his face was priceless! He wasn’t having it at all…
I tried and tried but he would just close his mouth and turn away. We did this every night for ALMOST as week. (I’ve read that you should only do one new food a week to check up on allergies.) He would only open his mouth once and then it was over, LOL.
On the fifth night I decided that we would switch to applesauce since he didn’t seem to have a problem with the banana. He still made a terrible face. On the third night he opened his mouth a few times, scowling all the while.
After dinner I took him downstairs so I could finish some ghostwriting and he bobbed his little head and grabbed at my shirt as if to say, “give me the real stuff Mom!”
I suppose he will have to get used to the fact that food comes in more than one form. Frankly, I will too. I love nursing him. I’m going to do it for at least a year if not longer
Did your kids take to solid food right away?
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When I was pregnant I will admit that whenever I read about someone sharing a family bed I turned my nose up and said “how awful! How could you do that with the risk of SIDS!!!” I had read pamphlet after pamphlet about the dangers of co-sleeping. I never considered that I would do it.
As the baby gets older his sleeping pattern is getting worse. His daddy and I think it’s because he’s teething. Anyway, after his dad would go to work I would guiltily sneak the baby into bed with me in order to get some sleep. I threw the comforter and extra pillows off of the bed and put my hand on the baby’s belly as we slept in peace…finally!
I broke down crying one day and admitted to my husband that I had been doing this. He said he wasn’t so sure it was a good idea since he ‘d read about the dangers as well. Me being the researcher that I am set out to learn more about the actual risks.
You see, I’d really come to love and look forward to sharing a bed with the baby because it’s such a sweet and intimate time.
As many of you know, I am a Dr. Sears advocate. He recommends Co-Sleeping! I breathed a sigh of relief that I’m not a bad mother after all. In fact, if you look at the number of babies who die from SIDS in their cribs and the number from co-sleeping, the crib number is higher even when you weight the numbers
Here is a link to what Dr. Sears has to say about it: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T071000.asp#T071006
Of course, I learned that there is a right and a wrong way. After doing my research I made further changes in order to make it safer. Now, the baby starts out in his crib (hates it!) or Amby Baby Hammock (adores it and thinks it’s fun to bounce himself…which is good and bad, lol). When he just won’t go to sleep I bring him into the bed.
This arrangement is working well for us, and I no longer turn my nose up at the thought of it. I do realize that some babie have passed away with this arrangement, and that is in the back of my mind. However, Dr. Sear’s studies and the statistics put my mind to rest. After all, this is the norm in countries where SIDS is unheard of!
My son has been breaking out in hives this past week. Sometimes there will be about 20 and other times there are none at all. Thankfully, they didn’t seem to be bothering him very much and he was his usually perky self.
I took him to the doctor today because the Benadryl hasn’t been taking them away completely. I wanted to get to the bottom of the problem in case it got worse or transferred to his lungs!
We weren’t able to figure out the exact cause as they won’t refer a baby that is so young to an allergist. We did come up with a possible cause that we are supposed to watch. The doctor thinks that it might be the brand new carpeting in our new home.
This makes sense because we have been putting him down on the floor to practice crawling and even to change his diaper. We never did that at the old house because the carpeting was so old. This was a new thing for us and it turns out it wasn’t the best choice.
So, we’re supposed to just keep giving him Benadryl and make sure he doesn’t touch the carpeting.
I told this to my husband when we got home and we agreed that we’d make every effort to keep the baby off of it. I’m writing an ebook for a client so I’ve been busy typing away and my husband had the baby. I just looked over at the baby in his Jumperoo (where daddy put him because it is his favorite thing), and his dad had put a towel under the baby’s feet!
This just struck me as the cutest thing in the entire world. I realized that I would have never thought to put that towel down, but his daddy did because he was just so worried that his soles would start to break out in hives.
It almost made me cry I thought it was so cute!!!!!
