Baby Questions

butterflygrooves

1. How do I do the saline nose suction thing?  I've never had to do this before.

2. How do I know when it's time to move her from froggy position to legs sticking out of the mei tai?

3. When do babies start solids these days?  4 months was the recommended age when A was a baby.

ctbride08

butterflygrooves:

1. How do I do the saline nose suction thing?  I've never had to do this before. first spray the saline, give it a couple minutes to loosen the nose junk (technical term), then suction.  some of those suction bulbs work better than others so if you arent getting much, its probably the bulb and not you.

2. How do I know when it's time to move her from froggy position to legs sticking out of the mei tai? around 5-6 months.  they will let you know if they arent comfortable.

3. When do babies start solids these days?  4 months was the recommended age when A was a baby. the jury seems to still be split between 4 and 6 months.  I think the best thing to do it wait until you see signs of readiness in your baby rather than a set age.  For our girls, that was around 5.5 months.

lnelson20

ctbride08:

butterflygrooves:

1. How do I do the saline nose suction thing?  I've never had to do this before. first spray the saline, give it a couple minutes to loosen the nose junk (technical term), then suction.  some of those suction bulbs work better than others so if you arent getting much, its probably the bulb and not you. You may also want to try the nose frida--it is gross but in my experience way way more effective than the bulbs.

2moms2twins

lnelson20:

ctbride08:

butterflygrooves:

1. How do I do the saline nose suction thing?  I've never had to do this before. first spray the saline, give it a couple minutes to loosen the nose junk (technical term), then suction.  some of those suction bulbs work better than others so if you arent getting much, its probably the bulb and not you. You may also want to try the nose frida--it is gross but in my experience way way more effective than the bulbs.

love love love love the snot sucker ( NOSE FRIDA) love it 

2moms2twins

oops sent my reply toosoon i was not done.

for food... we started the girls at 4mo per our pediatrician .. and they well S showed interest they watch everything we eat follow it .   We mentioned to him that bottle feeding was not going os smoothly as they would drink then look around then drink and then have a break....he said that was a cue and had us start on rice cereal  you ujust mix it with the formula or breastmilk - to a pretty thin consistency and they really only at like a teaspoon-table spoon at first. we did that for 3 weeks  1x a day  and towards the end of the 3 weeks 2 x a day as we got gradually thicker.. they let us know if it was not right with lots of gaging or spitting out.

 Then we started on veggies our ped says there is not rhyme or reason  e has no preference and says studies show that fruit b4 veggies makes no diff and for us that is true formula tastes horrible yet theystill drink it after eating pear or sweetpotato just stick to one food for 4days to see if there is a reaction ... we started with peas it was a fail as we didnot puree it enough and well practically killed them .... then we did avocado... squash ...sweet potato  carrots ( do not do carrots for babies under 5 mo...tsomething about nitrates so we waited till they were almost 6 mo like 5.5 but did not know about the nitrates till after wejust gave the girls pear and  they aregoing to start on banana on monday

we do 3day trial for food b4 we introduce a new one and give them it 2x a day  now 3x a day and check for reactions  we make our own we steam them all add water (not the steamed water for some items ) or add formula or breastmik but that changes the use time.... steam better than boil ... and we do organic  for items that are thinned skin  and stuff that is not we dont like bananas it dependswho gets it and where we are.

hope that helps we usu wholesomebaby.com sometimes but mostly we just pick.. the dr suggested today we walk through the isle and see what foods are mixed together for stage 2 ( its a thicker consistency ) AND TO GET 1 JAR JUST TO SEE WHAT THE CONSISTENCY IS BUT THE GIRLS TELL US

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