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April 2012 Moms
UO Tuesday
I can't wait until Thursday. I'll forget.
I hate how there are so many feeding rules. Specifically baby-led weaning. I think imposing rules on any type of eating is a slippery slope to disordered eating. Babies are smart. Overeating is learned. If you feed a baby when they are hungry and don't force food when they seem to refuse, then you're probably doing a great thing for your baby's/toddler's future eating habits.
*I say all of this as someone with a history of disordered eating.
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Re: UO Tuesday
Our plan is you eat what Momma has made and if you don't want to that's okay, but the next meal might be breakfast. Then to curb the deserts, I'm only making them on Sundays and I don't care if you have cookies for dinner. One meal a week of 2 cookies, if that's all she'll eat, isn't going to ruin her. Other than Sunday, no baked goods.
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We really haven't been forcing the baby to do anything. LOL. She has us trained. So far I have let her grab our broccoli and suck on it, we tried eating cereal in her high chair, she didn't like it so we stopped offering it. We tried offering yogurt in her high chair, she LOVED it, but only if we were eating it too, so she gets it whenever she seems to want it. We tried green beans in her high chair and she refused them and spit them out, but if we were eating them at the table and holding her on our lap she would lick them.
I guess our plan is to try to offer her as many healthy choices as possible and then let her guide us on what she will and won't eat.
TOTALLY A THING! I am not directing my UO towards anyone here, but rather the movement in general. I hate that we have lost touch with the fact that eating is natural. And that kiddos are smart and their bodies tell them what they need. Now, it's up to us as parents to supply good foods rather than cookies and candy. And it sucks that giving fruits/veggies/etc on the regular is a struggle for people like me. But that's the part I'm focusing on. Not if something fits into the rules dictated by one book.
It just sucks that all these rules confuse us! When I was a FTM, it stressed me out SO MUCH. It's easier this time around. I'm just doing whatever I want as long as Adeline is receptive.
I gotcha. I agree the rules can be overwhelming and frustrating. I definitely stressed early on. Are we creating physical or emotional issues? Ive since relaxed a bit, but need to check in from time to time.
I also get annoyed when strangers try to compete with you concerning milestones. I was at a Dr. appt. and the nurse acted like it was too bad DS wasn't crawling. Her DD crawled at 4 months. Good for her. A few months ago I would have stressed out to DH that I'm falling behind. Now I figure she has a wonderbaby, shes a crazy DC metro type who pushed her baby to be awesome faster than average, or shes lying. Whichever, I know DH is on a good track for himself.
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This thread made me think it was Thursday, for like 5 minutes, and then I remembered it was just Tuesday, bummer!
We are doing whatever works with our LO when it comes to eating. So far, rice and oatmeal have'nt really been a hit (just started like 4 days ago), so I am going to try sweet potatoes this weekend and if that doesn't work either stop and try later or try BLWing.
I don't understand what all of this stress is over rules! If your going the traditional method, do what works for you in whatever order you want. Veggies first? Sure! Fruit first? Sure! If you want to do BLW, then go for it! If you want to do a mixture of both, go for it! Like the decision of where your LO should sleep, this is a very personal decision, and there are not "right" ways and "wrong" ways (okay... there are WRONG ways of how a baby should sleep.... butcher knife in crib is probably a wrong way).
The BLW book never states rules. It never tells you that you are now allowed to use a spoon or give purees or cereal. In fact, it says, if you want to give any of those thing, go for it! The author just states that it is unnecessary to do so, but it's not breaking a rule! It does give you safety guidelines that includes not putting something in LO's mouth, letting LO sit reclined while eating, etc. Some preemie babies need extra iron, so it says that if your doctor wants your baby to get iron from cereal, then DO IT, because babie's health is the most important thing!
Micah Leonard
Mine is going in a different direction today.
Watching the Swiffer wet jet commercials piss me off. It shows the mom/wife doing all the cleaning and implies that she never has time for "......."
I see it being very sexiest. When she uses the Swiffer, she now has time for all the things she wants to do. I see where the point is going, but I think throwing a man in there would make it less sexiest. Guys clean too.
Yup, it's like this for MOST cleaning products. So effed up!
You would think in this day and age that they would change it a little. In this house, DH does the mopping XD
My husband does all the vacuuming! And now that we have LO, I hired a cleaner who comes every few weeks so I don't mop or vacuum, it's kind of amazing.
DH never cleans or does laundry unless I specifically ask him to. It is also now my job to tell him to mow the lawn (his words, not mine). I love that I have to nag for him to do housework. He is on vacation this week, and was so proud that he did two loads of laundry! Who folded it? Oh yeah, that's right, me!