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Jess,
I've been meaning to answer you on this one. That tip from Angie about not flipping but feeding from one side works very well. I've done that with all mine since Michaela and you don't have to be well endowed at all (you know how much I have  ).
Michaela did not like baby food at all. She refused everything except Cheerios. It turned out she had aversion to texture. She didn't really eat solids until after a year old and we went straight into table foods cut up very small.
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oops sorry about this I posted wierd!
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hereinantwerp wrote:
My last baby would not eat anything "mashed" or let me feed her with a spoon. Little Miss Independant--Finger food only--!
So what I would do is cube up a little carrot or potato or apple whatever and just boil it in a little pan until it was soft, then rinse in cold water. It was actually quite easy to do this while I was making lunch or dinner anyway, it became a habit. You can cut things up ahead of time to have it ready or just do it right then, it only takes a minute. Avacado cubes or banana work too. When they are a little bigger the little lunch fruit cups of peaches or pears work, or cubes of soft cheese. And she did end up liking those gerber sausages, which I think are rather gross, but handy if you're out and about! |
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Well now she has a cold so we've been nursing sitting up, but I will try the just staying on one side later. Do I cradle her in my arm or should she just lay on the bed?
I think I am going to steam some baby carrots or try some banana after she gets over the cold. Poor thing, she is so congested and has a yucky cough and she is just miserable. She's even having a hard time nursing, which is her *favorite* thing to do! She just moans! Its so sad 
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I'm so sorry she is not well, Jess. Those stuffed noses on little nursing ones just breaks my heart.
Jess wrote:
| Well now she has a cold so we've been nursing sitting up, but I will try the just staying on one side later. Do I cradle her in my arm or should she just lay on the bed? |
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If I'm understanding you correctly, baby can stay on the bed while mom's arm extends above baby's head. But, of course, you can try different positions to see what is most comfortable for you and baby. Does this make sense?
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Yes it does, we nurse like that sometimes. What I mean by cradling is like you would hold her nursing in a chair, just laying down, where her head is in the crook of your arm. We do that a lot too.
I was just thinking the other day that for almost her whole life (except 2 short weeks while he was home for R&R) its been just her and me in the king size bed (except when another child wandered in) while my dh is deployed, and he will be coming home pretty soon and I'm not sure with all the flip flopping we do that there will be enough room for him  . I told him that and he didn't think it was very funny . But seriously, me just nursing laying on one side would be much easier space-wise, since the baby is a bed hog
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My girls were pretty good eaters, but my 2 boys have not eaten solids until they were 10 and 11 months. They both started on very ripe pears, which are really easy to mash.
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