Monday, August 5, 2013

Mommy Monday: Transitioning to solids

Sloane has her 9 month appointment on Wednesday, I'm pretty excited to see how much she has grown! Also I have a few little questions to ask the doctor. Mostly pertaining to feeding Sloane solids. I'm not so concerned on what she can eat but how much she can/should eat.

Should she be having a meal and a bottle? That's pretty much where we are right now. She can eat a whole package/container of baby food but she still wants the bottle after. Should I be trying to feed her more? Maybe make it a more rounded meal with like a thing of baby food and then also a solid to make it more filling. I have started doing that a bit lately cause I feel like we should have cut out a bottle by now.


It has also been a bit of a process actually getting into the habit of feeding her solids. We were just feeding her solids here and there and then I remembered that the doctor said by 9 months she should be half solids half bottle so I talked to Mat and made sure we were on the same page that we should be giving her three meals a day.

We wake up, she will have a bottle and I will feed her typically baby oatmeal with something for flavor mixed in, either a fruit or some peanut butter. Then at her first nap she will have another small bottle and then wake up and have lunch of typically a veggie mix. She will have another bottle at her second nap. She will have dinner some time after her second nap where she will have a veggie and hopefully some meat if we can get her to eat it. Finally she will have another bottle before bed. So typically 4-5 bottles a day and 3 meals.

We will also give her little nibbles of whatever we are eating because she pretty much insists that we do.

She's a very good eater and will eat pretty much anything except the baby food meat. I gave her some lunch meat once and she really liked that so I thought about giving her that but I think it has a lot of salt in it.

I also want to ask about sippy cups. We have one for her that we just keep filled with water so she can try it out from time to time but she doesn't really seem to understand the concept that she has to suck on it to get the water out. I'm wondering if it is just too early to be giving her a sippy cup or if I should be trying a different type. The one we have has two handles for her to hold on to and the sippy part is soft which I read is good for a first time sippy cup.

Then finally I want to ask about her choking while eating. I feel like it is a pretty normal thing to do when first learning to eat solids and as long as she is working it out she is learning. She actually hasn't choked in quite a while and I think it's cause she's learned. She also has gotten very good about chewing/gumming, so that might open up the possibility to other new foods to feed Sloane. The one meal I'm pretty excited/frightened to give her is spaghetti. I just love seeing a messy baby with marinara sauce smeared all over the place!
 

 
 
How did you transition your baby to solid foods? I don't know why this seems like such a hard thing to do but I guess I just don't know what pace we should be progressing at. Leave my a comment below letting me know what you think of how we're going about this. 

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Happy Saturday Ya'll!

 
 
Hey guys, it's Saturday and I have the day off work so guess what I'm doing today... NOTHING!! that's right I have nothing going on today and I'm loving it! So I thought I'd highlight a few the fun things that are going on this weekend that I won't be going to...



Vid Con: This is a video conference in Anaheim, Ca for YouTubers. I love watching this conference through the eyes of all the vlogs I watch daily. It is fun to see all my favorite YouTubers together and you are typically guaranteed to be able to watch some very funny things happen!




Sea Fair: This is a fair in the Seattle area that is must anticipated all year round. There are hydro plane races and in the past the blue angels preformed. Unfortunately they are not coming this year, the first year in my life that I don't get to enjoy hearing them is the sky. I have to be honest though, I have never actually been to SeaFair and for the longest time I thought I was something you had to have a boat for. I hope to go some time in the future, just to see what it's all about.





Lake City Pioneer Days: which is Seattle's second longest running event. It spans 4 blocks of Lake City (just outside of Seattle) highlighting local crafts, goods and foods. They also have some fun kid activities... Of course now that I have looked into this event I kinda want to go check it out, even if we just walk through.


So anyways today is just a day to get things done around the house. I have cleaned a bit, I want to get a few blogs pre-written for the week and then have a nice dinner at home with Mat.

What are you guys doing this weekend? Do you typically stay home on the weekends or are you like me and try and take advantage of every day off you have?

This is how we relax