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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/11/2010 9:58:30 AM
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Mrs.Wifey
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We're off to the Pediatrician with Gabby this morning to get her tonsils and adenoids checked. Well, to either get orders for an xray to check her adenoids or a referral to an ENT. Her speech therapist thinks it could be contributing to her night waking and snoring, as well as to part of her speech problem. I also need to remember to talk to him about preventative phototherapy for Mia so we don't end up in the NICU again.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/11/2010 9:11:34 PM
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Flintejae
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I'm so thankful for my family... but I just need to say that I'm BURNED OUT on changing diapers and being touched 24-7.
Jadon has a bad yeast rash so I have to change his diapers very frequently. Joshua is pooing like it's no ones business! Even if it's just a squirt I still have to change it.
I swear I've never washed my hands this often in my entire life. I really feel fried.
But, on a happy note, Jadon turns TWO TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our big boy!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/13/2010 12:28:49 AM
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Brandy
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Happy Birthday Big Boy Jadon!!!
Sarah, we have THIS cd that we've played since like day 1. It puts ME to sleep!
I have it on my iphone and Jeremy's for when we go to relatives to help her sleep better. Can't play it in the car or we all get too sleepy. It's crazy.
Hoping Benj will like it since he's been hearing this whole time too.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/13/2010 6:40:52 AM
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manda59
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We haven't gone there yet, but Caden does have a potty. He'll sometimes just sit on it and once in awhile will pee in it right before a bath. I figure we'll wait until 2 to actually try.
That's really great that he's already happy to do that! Something to build on!
It's up to you of course, but you really don't need to wait till he's 2 (nor do you actually have to really "try", you could just pop him on the potty increasingly more often/regularly), especially since he's happy to sit on it now. Perhaps just twice a day to start with. Jonathan was happy to sit on the potty at 18 months, just as somewhere to sit in the bathroom while I cleaned his teeth etc morning and night. He was clean by 20 months and dry (daytimes) by 22 months, with no pressure (neither positive nor negative), it just happened naturally.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/13/2010 8:42:45 AM
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evegirl22
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Happy Belated Birthday Jadon!
Oh, I remember when Matthew turned 2... now he is almost 3.5 and such a independent little boy. :) Enjoy the 2's Jae, it is such a fun age!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/13/2010 9:35:26 AM
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Jamie brought up this question over in the bfing thread...it really doesn't go in there, so I am bringing it over here for her...
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Have any of you mamas ever done Baby-led Solids (Weaning) with your little ones? I am interested in doing this with Dylan, and was just wondering if anyone else has done it and what their experience with it was like. I just have been researching it on the internet, and am liking what I find on it. But I wanted some mom's opinion on it.
Now as I said over there, I think weaning from bfing is a totally separate thing...and that part would go in the bfing support thread, so I won't hit on that part of the question over here. However child led solids we have done, and WE LOVE IT!!!!!
With our first we did the whole baby food, then more chunky baby food, then small solids, etc...the normal way. (Only back then the recommended age was 2-3mo for eating, and Jake was eating by 2mo). I made some baby foods when I had the urge to, but we still bought some also.
With Hannah as held off on the baby foods for a little longer, but we still did baby food. She wasn't as interested in it as Jake was. I made a lot more of it myself though, and we bought less and less of it.
Then there was a 4 year gap between my girls, and during that time I started leaning more towards child led stuff...solids being one of them. So here is the breakdown stories of the ones we did child led solids with:
Emma- She was not interested in foods beyond just a few cereal pieces or a pinch of bread or a few tablespoons of potatoes when we went to Globus (though I blame that one on my friend Joan), until she was 9 months old (hmmm....maybe it was 8mo?). Our church was having evening VBS and they were serving dinner as part of it all week. That week I was working in the nursery they had for the workers kids that were too little to attend VBS. I had stepped out of the room on day 1 to take a child to the restroom when they came to serve the dinner meal. The other workers didn't know that Emma wasn't really eating foods yet, so of course they sat everyone down and handed everyone a plate. Before I got back she had downed half of a grilled cheese sandwich!!! So I figured she was ready to eat...lol. She finished off the whole thing that night, and the next day she was fully and completely into eating foods...there was no stopping her!!! So I just started fixing her a plate of whatever we were eating as a meal, and she dove right in and got into perfect step immediately. (I will add that the way she did it doesn't usually happen...lol).
Jackson- Jack really wasn't ever interested in foods for the longest time. He didn't mind a few pieces of cereal or a bit of bread or maybe a little mashed potatoes if we had some, but anything more then just that he wasn't into much. It had to be very very bland food for him at first. Once, when he was...hmmm...have to go look at my blog to find his age...Emma gave him oreo cookies. (OK, just checked the blog and he was 9mo. HERE is the blog post with pics if anyone wants to see). Other then that one incident though he really didn't seem interested in food. When his first birthday came, we gave him a cupcake and he dove into it full force. He loved it!!! I thought that would jump start his solids life, but it didn't. He enjoyed his treat, then that was it. Finally when he was 15mo he started reaching for some stuff on our plates (because we always sat him at the table with us even if he wasn't eating yet). But he was only into small stuff...mostly veggies...like peas or corn or green beans. It took him a few more months to work up to meats and such. By the time he was 18mo he was eating whatever we ate at the meal. Now there is no stopping him...that child LOVES food...lol. (HERE is the blog post with pics of Jack eating his birthday cake).
Justice- He was a lot like Jack in how he started eating foods, but it was a lot earlier then Jack...about 10-11mo he started really wanting food. So by his first birthday he was eating mostly veggies. Then he had his birthday cake treat, and that just started him into more advanced flavors...and meats and such. He is now 20mo and just about the only thing I don't give him that everyone else may eat is chips...he tends to choke on them, so I really don't like to give those to him. So when I make chips (oven baked tortilla chips!!) I make some that are kind of soggy for him so that he won't choke. (HERE is the blog with pics of Justice's birthday cake)
I REALLY like the child led solids approach!!! It is much less of me trying to figure things out. When they are ready for it, they ask for it.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/14/2010 9:04:07 PM
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Flintejae
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Thanks Ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His birthday was GREAT. Really Great!
I don't think Jadon is ready for potty training yet. I dont' think I'm ready to train him either... so we're both content with diapers for now. LOL!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/14/2010 9:15:26 PM
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Yeah, 24 months is possible, but still kinda young. I'm so glad to hear Jadon had a nice birthday.
Nathan may almost be ready to graduate from this thread. We've had good success the last two days with pooping in the potty, and he's been doing very well keeping dry. He'll be 3 on the 25th of this month. Things are going well with my boy. We've hit a good stride as far as training/discipline issues go, and any problems rarely get out of hand. He's listens... decently well, and I feel like Greg and I are having good success with communicating to him. He's very loving, and becoming more and more social with other people all the time.
Beth remains a huge challenge, and all of your prayers are certainly appreciated, but that's all the detail I'd like to go into here in the open, considering... But on the light and fluffy side, she has become more confident going downstairs (a relief to her mum), and she's trying to talk a lot more. Her verbal skills may be a little behind, but she's practicing new sounds all the time and she loves to sing. Her favorite songs are the ABC song and "Deck the Halls", because she can do the fa-la-la part. She loves the Hokey Pokey.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/15/2010 12:45:18 PM
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Flintejae
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Ruth, I don't know what your challenges are, but I can relate to having challenges and not wanting to talk about it. HUGS.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/15/2010 10:15:44 PM
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lilyofthefield
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It's up to you of course, but you really don't need to wait till he's 2 (nor do you actually have to really "try", you could just pop him on the potty increasingly more often/regularly), especially since he's happy to sit on it now. Perhaps just twice a day to start with. Jonathan was happy to sit on the potty at 18 months, just as somewhere to sit in the bathroom while I cleaned his teeth etc morning and night. He was clean by 20 months and dry (daytimes) by 22 months, with no pressure (neither positive nor negative), it just happened naturally.
I think that is pretty much how I'm planning on going. I don't want either of us to feel pressured. He didn't like his potty at first - was kind of scared to sit on it, but gradually got to where he wanted to sit on his little potty when I sat on the big potty.  Most of the time he'll just sit on it for a few seconds fully clothed and then clap for himself. LOL I do make a HUGE deal of it when he actually pees. Anyway, I'm hoping this will go the way weaning did for us and he'll just kind of decide to do it on his own eventually. In any case, we'll make it as pleasant as possible!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/15/2010 10:58:47 PM
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Hee. Now, Nathan thrived on the huge deal we made of it, especially since pooping in the potty was such a trial for him. (Note: He has been clean and dry for 3 days now.) We never punished for accidents, but we did let him know what was expected of him. When he pooped in the potty, we made a spectacularly big deal out of it, and Nathan shined.
But, you know your kid and what will work best for him.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/15/2010 11:22:21 PM
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Mrs.Wifey
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It's up to you of course, but you really don't need to wait till he's 2 (nor do you actually have to really "try", you could just pop him on the potty increasingly more often/regularly), especially since he's happy to sit on it now. Perhaps just twice a day to start with. Jonathan was happy to sit on the potty at 18 months, just as somewhere to sit in the bathroom while I cleaned his teeth etc morning and night. He was clean by 20 months and dry (daytimes) by 22 months, with no pressure (neither positive nor negative), it just happened naturally.
I think that is pretty much how I'm planning on going. I don't want either of us to feel pressured. He didn't like his potty at first - was kind of scared to sit on it, but gradually got to where he wanted to sit on his little potty when I sat on the big potty. Most of the time he'll just sit on it for a few seconds fully clothed and then clap for himself. LOL I do make a HUGE deal of it when he actually pees. Anyway, I'm hoping this will go the way weaning did for us and he'll just kind of decide to do it on his own eventually. In any case, we'll make it as pleasant as possible!
We basically did what Manda did, but we did a lot of naked time around the house. However, Gabby was 26 months and already had good control of her bowel movements so the only risk was the occasional pee puddle(not a big deal to me), she was easily trained with no pressure either direction in about 10 weeks.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/16/2010 10:30:25 AM
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I'm very much ready to start training Mary, but I don't think she is ready for it. We have a hard enough time communicating as it is. She only says 2-3 words and everything to her is "Ah" and lots of finger pointing.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/16/2010 11:07:05 AM
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I'm very much ready to start training Mary, but I don't think she is ready for it. We have a hard enough time communicating as it is. She only says 2-3 words and everything to her is "Ah" and lots of finger pointing.
When I started popping Jonathan on the potty after breakfast, and then again before bed, he was only 18 months and said very little. He didn't need to be able to say any words just to sit there!
I remember the first time he did a poo - he stood up, looked down in amazement at what was in the potty, and then did the sign I'd taught him for crocodile (mimicking the jaws with your hand). I found it hilarious, and so did he, that he thought his poo looked like a crocodile!!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/16/2010 2:07:57 PM
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Mrs.Wifey
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Jen, we ended up starting her on an allergy med to see if that helps the issues before we subject her to an xray(and it's trauma). So far the Zyrtec seems to be helping, which isn't surprising since we already know she has environmental allergies.
Ah, the screaming phase. Luckily that was relatively short lived here which was good because I might have gone bald otherwise 
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/16/2010 3:09:05 PM
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Grace is in the screaming phase- I'm already ready to be done. I know it will pass, but that girl makes our ears ring! She gets her mouth covered or tapped when she does it, so she is learning, it's just a matter of consistency v. stubbornness on her part! She has learned that she likes to go places, so no matter what trouble she is getting into, if I ask her to go bye byes, she drops what she is doing and RUNS to me
Hanah has been screaming lately as well. I have been tapping her mouth when she does, and that seems to be working.  DS went through the same faze at this age. Thankfully, it doesn't last long.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/16/2010 6:23:35 PM
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When we potty-trained DS#1, we started off letting him sit on the potty at 15 months whenever he wanted to when we were in the bathroom. We started at 2 to really potty trained but it wasnt until he was 2 3/4 that he actually was potty trained via naked potty training. He was potty trained daytime pee within 4 days, night it took a month, and poo it was bout 2 weeks. He loved sitting on the potty before he was 2, he felt like such a big boy, even though he didnt do anything.
Will you guys keep Dylan in your prayers? Poor boy has had a rough go so far in 2010, and right now he has Bronchitis. :( Pray that it wont turn into RSV. We have an antibiotic, so I am hoping that and lots of rest and cuddling time he will be feeling better soon.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 3/16/2010 6:47:49 PM
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The antibiotic should help, Jamie. RSV is a separate virus so bronchitis can't "become" RSV, which is good.
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