I promise, I'm still here. These last few weeks have been so crazy. In a good crazy way.
The hurricane, for starters. Knocked the power out of our church, so we didn't have church last Sunday night. Or Wednesday. Or yesterday.
Friday we ran down to Big City Far Away for a youth service, and found out we aren't young anymore. The music got on our nerves. I was praying and travailing for the altos to bring their fevered excitement to a controllable pitch which would be in tune with the REST OF THE GROUP.
Bless their teenage hearts.
Sunday night most of our church combined services with another local church. For some good times, let me tell you. HELLO, ROXY!
There. Maybe she'll update her blog more often now. tee hee
But hey! Zesty is sleeping much better now that I'm giving him 4 meals a day instead of a standard 3 meals. He's starting to hold his own bottle, and I'm seriously considering weaning him to a sippy cup.
My main reason is I'm done nursing him. He only really wants to nurse when he's still half-asleep, or wants to be asleep.
We want to have another baby soonish, and I'd like a break between nursing him and the player to be named later.
*Edited to say that 1) I'll continue to provide Momma's milk for him, formula is not in the budget when I can get it for FREE and 2) the player to be named later does not exist in any other fashion than a gleam in Daddy's eye at this time
Thoughts on this? How do I do it? Do I put milk in the sippy cup, or do I start him on a small amount of diluted juice to get him attracted to the cup? I read this article (and you know I believe EVERYTHING I read on the interweb) and I'm not sure I buy it completely, but I'm not the baby expert.
Except I know better than to give my baby a Coke.
Unless someone writes an interweb article about how a Coke a day will keep the baby from flipping over every time I change his diaper.
Then I might be tempted. I promise. Changing his diaper is an Olympian event. We don't have a changing table (no room for one, really) so I've been putting down a protective mat on the couch, and it's been fine. But now Zesty wants to flip over and eat the wipes container. And the mat. And probably pee down the couch cushions. It's easier and safer to use the floor. Except then he can flip over and start to try to crawl away, or worse - play with the recently removed diaper, along with the contents.
He's getting up on all fours rather frequently now, and we just never know where we're going to find him in the crib in the morning. I tried to catch on video him singing himself to sleep, but he caught my eye through the crack in the door and stopped.
Stinker. Momma's trying to exploit his talents early on the interweb, and he won't let me.
9 comments:
The Zesty Olympics have begun!! Diaper changes will only get more interesting as time continues to run past you. I started giving my kids juice at 6 months, diluted, in a soft-spout cuppy. Start with something like white grape or apple juice, nothing too acidic. Are you still pumping or will you be using formula for the next six months? I used juice first, then milk, but some might disagree. I never had a problem. My sons had no problems moving from the bottle to the sippy, but my daughter loved her bottle and didn't transition as smoothly or as soon. Samuel was completely off the bottle at 8 months.
Glad you're back.
Glad you're back! Juice in a cup - always diluted (I think I diluted my kids juice until well in the preschool years! Too many empty calories that seemed to fill them up! lol!) Is he cutting teeth?? He did not seem too happy at the beginning of service last night! My sis-in-law is quite the pro at changing diapers w/the kid standing up/moving around!!! I never quite got the hang of that one!!!
See you Weds....Amy
My mom used the deep freeze as a change table.....I think i used the couch. My son didn't compete in the olympics...i'm no hekp there. And i only bottle fed.....we just slowly transistioned to cow milk and i dont even remember when that was. i know, horrible mom.
(oh and mom used the top of the freezer....not the insides LOL)
tas
I would suggest breastmilk to get him started on a sippy. It worked best with you!!! ('Course you weren't really happy about giving up the faucet!) And remember he will try to gag himself several times as he's learning the difference between sucking and drinking.
I guess I never thought about switching to a sippy cup as a big deal. Find one with a squishy top, like Nuby for example, put your beverage of choice in it and see what happens.
I rarely put juice in a cup, they just don't need the sugar is my opinion. All of my kids took to cups easily, my oldest hung on to his bottle at bedtime for as long as he could. The younger two wanted nothing to do with their bottle after they were weaned to whole milk at 12m.
Find what works for you and Zesty and don't worry about it.
I fall in the category of whole fruit, not juice - your body does not need to work at all to digest juice and therefore turns the majority of it straight into sugar. ~T~ is still breastfeeding twice a day, but he drinks water from a sippy cup (Avent or Klean Kanteen - fabulous products, both) or now he wants to drink everything from a straw, so it depends on his mood as to how he gets his water! :) I haven't started him on cow's milk - probably won't for another 6 months or so, but he eats yogurt and cheese (since about 8 months) and loves, loves, loves them! There is some interesting research out there on increased rates of lactose intolerance in adults who were introduced to cow's milk too young (some even argue that age 2 is too young). Anyway - food for thought - eat it or throw it out - your choice :) Love ya!
Wendy
How old is her?
In general, you can spend hours trying to teach a baby how to use a sippy cup, or you can wait until he's a year or so and he'll pick it up in a snap. This, of course, does not include the sippy cup prodigies.
Also, save that paragraph and substitute crawling, walking, potty training, reading, or just about anything else, and you have parenting advice that will last for years to come. You're welcome.
My two went to sippy cups pretty easily, though I waited until they were closer to a year. Luke weaned himself at 10 months to a bottle and then cups. With him, I gave him straight whole milk.
David was a bit trickier. He wanted to nurse longer (though sometimes it was most definitely more convenience or comfort than actually feeding!) and to switch him over I put breast milk in the bottle.
He didn't seem to like the bottles much, so I switched pretty quick to sippy cups. (For a while putting my milk in there, too....I was a reg'lar milk cow according to my momma!) teehee
By 12 mths, both boys were off the bottle and fully onto cups. Good luck. Do what you think is best....that's just what happened to work for mine. =o)
P.S. You think diaper Olympics are fun? Wait til you get the Potty Training Olympics in. Yippee!
~Debi
The flipping can drive you crazy. My sister has two kids. Her first, a girl, NEVER played this game. Her second, a boy, flips over every single time I change him.
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