??? Weekly Check-in ??? 6/1/2011

Re: ??? Weekly Check-in ??? 6/1/2011

• inamra member

  June 2011

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?1yr ~3w
  (2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?Good overall. Started swimming to try to fit into my BM dress for a wedding next week but mom is getting weird about childcare again, so I'm back to the sedentary life again. I bought a jogging stroller though so I'm hoping to use that when it stops raining/gets warmer. B is doing well...he's walking really well (even tries to run sometimes but it trips him up =P) and picking up lots of new words and keeping rhythm (drumming or waving with his hands) to music.
  (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?15mo
  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?See #2
  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food?6.5mo and we started with homemade brown rice cereal. For me, a small steamer and a hand blender are my must-haves for making baby food.
  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)?We are going to a family reunion. Unprepared thus far (I dread traveling with a car seat, just seems like a pain to lug around the convertible seat) but planning to keep our same sleep routines (napping on plane/in airport in ergo if need be and doing the same bedtime routine--we always bring a inflatable tub and 1-2 bath toys and bedtime books).
  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO?I copied the idea of using B's name with Oh McDonald Had a Farm from lelekay and B loves it Otherwise, we sometimes sing G-rated songs from kid movies/etc or Twinkle Twinkle/ABC's, etc. Sometimes I make up my own while I'm "telling" him what I'm currently doing.
  (8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins?

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• Married2MrWright member

  June 2011

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?

  Libby is 16 months and 2 weeks old and I am 7 weeks and 1 day PG.

  (2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?

  Exhausted and nauseous 24/7. UGH! Libby is doing great...she's getting really consistent with identifying numbers from 1-10 and her letters. She knows all of them and if we sing/say the ABC song she will fill in the "blanks" correctly. However she's not saying/singing the ABC song just yet. She's counting from 1-5 too. She's also super consistent now with identifying colors and shapes. We're all a little astounded at her grasp of these skills at such a young age.

  (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?

  First u/s next Friday morning. I keep having dreams that they're going to say we're having twins, so I cannot wait to have them confirm that there is just one in there!

  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?

  Me being KU and all that comes with it while wanting to meet the needs of my toddler.

  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food?

  We introduced solids using the Baby Led Weaning method beginning at 6 months. We skipped purees and "baby food" completely and have always just given her age appropriate bits of whatever we're eating.

  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)?

  We've decided not to vacay this year to save up my leave time for Baby#2 and money too. When we have traveled with her we've kept her bedtimes and mealtimes the same, despite a 2 hour time difference and also brought our sounds machine and Twilight Turtle that we use at home at bedtime to help keep things relatively consistent for her. She did well.

  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO?

  "You Are My Sunshine" is her song (I only sing it to her!) and I changed the words so it's "...you'll always know dear, how much I love you...you're my sunshine and that's how you'll stay." We also do a ton of other standard kiddie songs and several more from our Kindermusik CDs. She loves "itsy bitsy spider" and "pat-a-cake" and also "Ring Around The Rosy" and "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." If you're looking for fun CDs I recommend the double set put out by Fisher Price as well as any of the Kindermusik ones.

  (8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins? TTCers:  Which cycle are you on?  Where in the cycle are you?  What, if anything, are you doing/trying for TTC success?

  
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• stargirl76

  June 2011

  I'll play since I haven't in a while  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 31wks 2days(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? I feel big I think I had a growth spurt this weekend. All last week I was starving and this week I just feel... BIG. Stretched out and like he's cramped in there.(3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up? Next week for a regular check up. Two more 2-weekers, then every week. Yikes.(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week? None this week, but last week (and the previous month), we were having scares with my cervix shortening. It shortened quite a bit over a 6 week period, so the MFM doc was starting to worry a little. My last fFN came back negative, though (8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins? Not sure, but we definitely need some! We're running low on questions and most of the other questions have been used in the past year.

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• MrsNJSwimmer member

  June 2011

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 18m+

  (2) Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? just a few more words here and there - I love watching his personality develop when he initiates games with us!

  (3) Next appointment date? 2 yrs.

  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?  he was really off his schedule over the weekend and was fighting bedtime something fierce. Luckily, since I've been back to work, things are back to normal - but his teeth are bothering him and I had to give him motrin at 3am this morning.  The other thing seems to be that he is getting up at 6 now (when usually it's 7:30)!  Maybe he is telling me he needs to go to bed earlier??

  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food? about 5 months probably.  We dabbled around 4 months, but mostly we were putting rice cereal in his bottles (on recommendation of pedi) for his reflux, so he was sorta getting them there if you count that.  We did mostly veggies first, he didn't like fruits - I think they were too sweet for him.  He was ok with meat, but not thrilled like with veggies.  I was lazy and did store bought stuff, although I hear it's pretty easy. 

  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)?  We only took him on weekend trips last year - he didn't travel so well, but he seems to be good up to about 3 hrs in the car now, so I'm hoping that leads to good things for our vacation in 2 wks.  I'm at a loss for his sleep routine on weekends, so I'm not going to be any help with this, lol. 

  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO?  Thank goodness for swim class - that gave me some good ones to start with.  I always did Twinkle, Twinkle with him, but then we started Wheels on the Bus and Wind that Bobbin up and Hokey Pokey.  He loves TV theme songs (for any show - he was addicted to Gilmore Girls theme song when he was really young!) and we sing those too sometimes!  We also do Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Did you ever see a _____?, Over in the Meadow and If you're happy and you know it.

   

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• MrsNJSwimmer member

  June 2011

  stargirl76:

  (8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins? Not sure, but we definitely need some! We're running low on questions and most of the other questions have been used in the past year.

  I say if they haven't been used in 6 months, recycle.  I know my perspective and recall are different than they were when he was only just 1 year old.

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• redshoegirl member

  June 2011

  MrsNJSwimmer:

  stargirl76:

  (8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins? Not sure, but we definitely need some! We're running low on questions and most of the other questions have been used in the past year.

  I say if they haven't been used in 6 months, recycle.  I know my perspective and recall are different than they were when he was only just 1 year old.

  Totally agree about recycled questions - we're in such a different place now than we were 6 months ago, my answers are probably totally different! But I'll try to kick in some questions...let me see...

  What's your LO's bedtime routine like? When did you start it?

  Tell me about mealtimes - what does your LO usually eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks? 

  What were the best and worst baby shower gifts you got?

  How do you keep work/life/marriage/mama/you balance?

  Was there anything you stressed about before your LO was born that in retrospect wasn't such a big deal?

  Was there anything (baby related or not) that you wished you planned better before your LO was born?

  How did/do you and your husband negotiate baby care duties?

  What made you decide the time was right to start a family? Did you have certain goals you wanted to meet before TTC, or did you just decide to go for it?
  

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• mrspresley

  June 2011

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?she'll be 19 months in a week! she is closer to 2 yrs old than 1 now *sniff*
  (2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?she can open doors now! she did it by pulling down on a wet bag that i had hanging on the back of the bathroom door.  she wasn't previously able to reach the door handle but after christine posted about it on my FB page i decided today to see if she could reach it....and although she has to stand on her tippy toes, she was able to do it! now we really have to be careful! we used to just shut the doors to keep her away from the stairs...she also threw a ball over hand this weekend.  she still mostly throw under hand but the over hand thing is new.
  (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?not until 2 yrs re: exciting stuff coming up - we have a trip to CA coming up soon
  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?battling a toddler that likes to throw her food on the floor!
  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food?we started a little after she was 6 mos old and started with just a bit of rice cereal in expressed BM.  we slowly added more and more until it was the texture of oatmeal. once she got used to that we went to purees. i just steamed stuff for her and then put it in the food processor.  one large vegetable = many baby servings so it's not very hard to make baby food at home.  esp since in the beginning they are doing it for taste and not nutrition.  by the time she was eating more we were on to finger foods.
  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)?we are going to CA again soon.  we've made several trips w/her thus far to CA, TN, Puerto Rico.  she has always been pretty good about sleeping and adjusting to new sleep environments. only thing is that she will sometimes fight sleep on the plane until she is over tired.  we've been able to use our CDs w/us on all the trips, thankfully, since we've always had access to a washer/dryer.  as far as prep goes, i just make sure to pack as much as i can ahead of time and write down things on a packing list as i remember them.
  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO?we sing all sorts of nursery rhymes and a lot of your typical kid songs (old macdonald, farmer in the dell, bingo, head shoulder knees & toes, twinkle twinkle little star, etc). we also sing some church songs to her too, like "jesus loves me"
  
  

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• MauiWedding08

  June 2011

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 15.5mo
  (2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? J got his first visible owie   he fell of a kitchen chair and bumped his head. 
  (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up? after the 12mo appt our next is 18mo.
  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week? trying to jack to quit climbing and putting himself in dangerous situations... Probably a lofty goal.  So I moved the pack and play to the dining room/kitchen so he can sit there while I cook dinner for his own safety.  I wasn't even going to mention throwing foods - but eek, that is an escalating issue at our house too!  I dread cleaning up under his chair every night.  Other strange eating habits that have evolved - Lately he has been chewing something and then just spitting it out, he just sticks his tongue out and lets it fall in order to take a new bite.  Or he takes out a partially chewed bite and sets it right beside his plate.  Sometimes he goes back to it (ew).
  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food? I let him chew on some foods a little before 6 mo.  At 6mo we offered him bits of whatever we were eating without much pre-planning (I did wait on shellfish and he still hasn't had peanuts). 
  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)? hmm, no planned vacations this summer.  We are going away for a long weekend soon (5 hours away by car).  He has been on lots of trips so far.  Nothing really seems to phase him, I don't try to keep a strict schedule or anything because (thus far) it hasn't had a lasting impact on his home routine.  I try to pack light - especially when visiting the ILs since they have all the baby stuff we need there.  At hotels he usually just sleeps with us.
  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO? we have a couple of toddler tunes type CDs - we sing those a lot and he can motion all the regular ones (wheels on the bus, if you're happy and you know it, i'm a little tea pot, itsy bitsy spider, etc).  Other than that he listens jazz and classical music in the car.
  

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• SanHawaii08 member

  June 2011

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 7 mo later this week!
  (2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? ugh.  we took a super quick trip to the bay area over the weekend...see #4.
  (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up? developmental assessment next month, then 9 month.
  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week? E got like, NO sleep while we were traveling.  there were so many people around all the time, so loud, it might be due to teething too, but he was up like, 4x/night, screaming inconsolably.  and screams at naptime too.  i was hoping we'd get back to our normal routine when we got home, but nope.  he's screaming, protesting his nap right now, in fact.  sigh.   i feel like 3 months of effort to get him sleeping on his own, in his crib, have gone out the window in 2 days.  so frustrating.  his first tooth wasn't that bad - i didn't even know it was there until it had broken through, so i'm surprised if this is really due to the second tooth, which should be breaking through any day now.
  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food? we started at 6 mo.  so far, we've tried sweet potato, rice cereal, avocado, banana, carrots, oatmeal cereal. 
  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)?  there was the trip to CA, and we're headed to KS in a few weeks to visit my ILs.  i have a packing list that i use for each trip, and just adjust quantities (for onesies, diapers, etc) based on length of trip.  we use the same sleep routine - i pack the seahorse, the swaddle, the bedtime books, etc - everything - which worked beautifully the first 2 trips we took, but all went to sh!t the last trip, so i have no idea!
  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO? twinkle twinkle, abc's, itsy bitsy spider, wheels on the bus, etc, along with some songs we've made up

  

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• redshoegirl member

  June 2011

  Ha! I just realized I never actually replied to the poll...

  (1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 13.5 months.
  

  (2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? A bit overwhelmed. Working full time, being a mama and a wife, and working on my Masters is HARD. I know that's obvious, but...*sigh*

  As far as the boys go, they're taking 10+ steps now! They still crawl most of the time though, I think mostly because it's faster and they're lazy lol. 
  

  (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up? Nothing until 18 months.
  

  (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week? Fighting. Still fighting. I think they're sick of each other lol! It's freezing cold so we can't go outside to play, which means that on the weekend they can't escape each other. Wake up and HE is there. Eat and HE is there. Play and HE is there. I think they're just getting annoyed with being confined together so much!
  

  (5) At what age did you start solids? What foods did you start with? Any recommendations for making your own baby food? 5 months. Earlier than recommended, I know, but formula just wasn't cutting it any more and it was clear they wanted food.

  We tried rice cereal, but it constipated them like crazy. Then we went to avocado and they haaaated it. They loved pureed orange veggies though - carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, etc., so those were most of their first "meals".

  I'm sure someone has mentioned it already, but Wholesome Baby Foods was a great resource. It's on the conservative side - most other sites recommend the introduction of particular foods about a month before WBF does - but it's still full of useful info (and some mamas may be more conservative than I was anyway, especially if they have a family history of food allergies or something).
  

  (6) Anyone taking LO on vacation this summer? If so, how did you prepare? Any tips (especially with sleep routines)? No...although I am worried about moving in a few months, transitioning to a new house, etc.
  

  (7) What songs do you sing with your LO? I make up a lot of dorky songs for them lol! Just random rhyming stuff about what we're doing. Aside from that, we sing all of the classic nursery rhymes - they especially love Old Mac Donald and The Wheels on the Bus.

  
  

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