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Cooking w/ a gas stove?

StrawberryAlarmClockStrawberryAlarmClock member
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Do you wear your baby while cooking? If not, what equally affectionate and stimulating means of caring for him do you use when DH is not home and you need to use the stove? If so, what precautions do you take?

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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat

    She's on my back, wearing long pants and shoes and socks and I only use the back burners.

    If I'm boiling water, I don't let it get to a full boil and never anything that would spatter.

    But if I really need to cook on multiple burners, she goes in the high chair with crayons and a coloring book now.

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  • hula_lulahula_lula

    Not really, not since she was tiny and could be tucked in completely with nothing exposed.

    She loves her high chair so I sit her in the high chair facing me and talk and sing to her while cooking

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  • The_Spanish_InquisitionThe_Spanish_Inquisition

    I never cook while wearing DS. My brother was badly scalded when he was an infant, and I guess I'm overly paranoid about it. I won't do anything else involving a heat source or sharp objects while I'm wearing him, either.

    When he was littler, he loved being in his bouncer or exersaucer. Now that he's bigger, he'll usually sit on the kitchen floor and bang around on my Tupperware with wooden spoons. Sometimes I'll give him a snack in his high chair, but that doesn't hold his interest for long.

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  • Lotte134Lotte134
    I also don't cook while wearing DS.  Now he generally plays with his play kitchen which sits in our kitchen so he can 'cook' right along with me.  Before he was old enough for that the jumperoo also worked well.  Before that he would go in his bouncy seat or car seat for a moment.  When he was really tiny I didn't often cook very involved meals when DH wasn't home because I didn't like to set him down for that long (plus he usually cluster-fed in the evenings which made it near impossible).
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  • sunnyday016sunnyday016 member
    I cook with her all the time. I just use the back carry if I'm using knives or the stove.
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  • StrawberryAlarmClockStrawberryAlarmClock member

    imageLotte134:
    I also don't cook while wearing DS.  Now he generally plays with his play kitchen which sits in our kitchen so he can 'cook' right along with me.  Before he was old enough for that the jumperoo also worked well.  Before that he would go in his bouncy seat or car seat for a moment.  When he was really tiny I didn't often cook very involved meals when DH wasn't home because I didn't like to set him down for that long (plus he usually cluster-fed in the evenings which made it near impossible).

    What is cluster-feeding? (I have a lot to learn!!)

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  • erbearerbear member

    Never.

    I draw the line on AP when it could potentially endanger my kid.  If DH isn't home, I let her play in her exersaucer (which is in the kitchen) or just on the floor in the kitchen away from the stove. Usually, I don't cook when DD is around though...we make dinner after she's gone to bed.

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  • TommysGirl56TommysGirl56 member
    I will wear Alannah while prepping food, but the thought of her near the gas burners, or splattering grease, etc. has me put her into her infant rocker on the other side of the kitchen at that point.  I give her toys and talk and sing to her the whole time I am at the stove.
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  • Lotte134Lotte134
    imageStrawberryAlarmClock:

    What is cluster-feeding? (I have a lot to learn!!)

    It basically means nursing off and on for a long period of time.  It's very normal in the evenings because your supply is lower plus LO's are trying to tank up for a longer sleep at night.  Here's a great link from kellymom.com that reassured me this was normal: cluster feeding

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  • jk09uhed89jk09uhed89

    i cant cook while i wear ds at least not till i master the back carry. tried it once and he hated it.

    i will put him in his jumper thing and just talk to him while im cooking. he loves that thing

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  • EcoBabyEcoBaby

    I don't do extensive cooking while wearing LO, but I have turned on the stove or stirred something while wearing him. I don't get things out of the oven or pour something into hot oil, etc.

    When he was little, he was always asleep in the carrier, and I would chop or do whatever I had to while I was wearing him.

    Now that he's older, he can entertain himself.

    And I just haven't cooked like I used to since having the baby. If I can't do it conveniently, I just let DH cook or throw a pizza in the oven or something. There have been some things I just had to let go of, and that is one of them.

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  • jema30jema30

    I don't wear my DS while cooking.  I have a large kitchen so I drag a play mat in to the centre of the floor, fill it with toys and watch him go at it.  I'll play with him in between things I'm doing and I'll sing songs or talk to him.  He's just old enough now that he's babbling to me when I talk to him and I don't think he feels neglected.  

     

     

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