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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/17/2009 4:19:58 PM
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HomeSpunLady
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Anyone want a sling? I have two slings, one is a new native carrier size med I think (mine is about 4 yrs old). And the other is an adjustable padded sling with a strap in sit part on the inside for the baby. They are in excellent condition, I just ask for shipping. PM me please.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/17/2009 9:32:37 PM
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Little rugrat has started banging her head against the side of the crib whenever she wakes up, which makes any sort of sleep training nearly impossible. I don't mind hearing her cry, but I don't want her hurting herself.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/17/2009 11:15:14 PM
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Ruth your signature looks very familiar from a forum I used to frequent a lifetime ago.
Well, I have the potty out, I have ordered Potty Power (the library's copy is trashed but Hannah loves what she saw), I bought a package of big girl panties so I guess we are going to get on our way. She sat on the potty tonight without a diaper. She was very proud. She told daddy and grandma all about it.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/18/2009 8:57:15 AM
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Ruth, I saw an actual study (for a sleep drug company), that men truly don't "hear" baby cries. At least, it's not on their top ten. Car alarms are. Wait, Wait Don't Tell me (NPR Comedy) suggested that the solution was to attach your baby to a car alarm. 
I laughed so hard when I was listening to their take on it. Dh can sleep through quite a bit of baby wailing, but if he hears a cat scratching around the garbage, or a car alarm two blocks down, he sits bolt upright and goes "WHAT, What's that!!! Did you hear something??!!" 
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/18/2009 11:07:28 AM
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Micah doesn't wake up for crying babies either, but if I whisper "intruder" he's wide awake AND alert.  Or if a car backfires, he's very alert then too.
The worst part is that he sleeps so stinking hard, by the time I wake him up enough for him to tend to a baby I might as well have just done it myself.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/18/2009 12:51:40 PM
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I completely agree with this statement. Eric tells me to wake him so he can tend to Hannah, but I figure we both shouldn't lose sleep.
Yup.
It doesn't really bother me though since I have time to nap during the day and Micah obviously doesn't.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/18/2009 3:23:45 PM
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very cute pics!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/18/2009 4:36:15 PM
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Erin, those are great pics!
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/18/2009 6:16:50 PM
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He looks like such a big boy Erin! wow.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 2:39:31 AM
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All the best on the training Karen!! My son is sort of in training, he does one at bath times, although tonight he ran into my room hiding from his big sister and did a wee on my bed :(
Ruth- I'm sorry that Beth is doing all that banging. Have you asked your paed or someone like that what you can do to help her stop it?
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 7:29:34 AM
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Logan just flat out loves solid food. It is what he wants. He was fussy and I realized it was because I wasn't feeding him enough. Hannah was and is still so picky about food. I have to remember that Logan is not his sister. He will try to eat everything and anything. He reaches for my food (our daddy's, sister's, grandma's, a stranger's) all the time. I have been giving him all kinds of things to eat and he loves it. My mother sits in amazing over what this 8 month old baby will eat. He is much more content now that I up his solid food. I wonder how long he will nurse. I hope we make it until a year.
Thank you all for the good wishes for potty training. I am waiting for the "Potty Power" dvd to come in and even then we are going to try to go at her pace. With Hannah, I think once the decision is made, by her of course, then it will be pretty quickly. There are many positives to strong willed children. One is when they decide it is time to do a milestone they do it with gusto.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 7:39:25 AM
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Nicole, I decided to start a head banging thread in Parenting so as not to disturb this thread. We did better last night, though.
Karen, glad to hear about Logan. My cousin was feeding her 9 month baby an incredible amount of solid food, in addition to breastfeeding, and the kid just kept asking for mom. That baby would eat a slice of pizza, a bowl of ice cream, vegetable soup, nutri-grain bars....
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 8:37:19 AM
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Give us another month and I think Logan will be there! It really is nice. It has been rough at times because Hannah is so picky. It is great that he just eats anything. Fruits, veggies, all is good to him. I know he will struggle in another area but I will be grateful for this one.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 11:47:18 AM
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Gabby started solid between 10-11 months and just jumped straight into what we were eating. Her favorite at the time was curried lentils, it was always a sure-fire hit with her. Who would have thought?
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 1:46:24 PM
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So, I'm starting to get flack from people when we tell them we are not feeding anything but formula to Derrek until 6 months. Grrrrrr.....! Isn't that the recommendation right now, 6 months?
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 1:54:44 PM
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I exclusively bf'ed Hannah until almost 6 months. Logan was interested in food earlier so I started around 5 months. My ped told me we could start at 4months but I didn't. Sadly Sharon you should probably just prepare yourself. You are now on a path that people will fuss at you because you started food too early/ no too late, you used sleep training/ you didn't use sleep training, you didn't use a black and white mobile (I really go that one), basically you are going to make a ton of big and little decisions and none of them are going to please everyone. Sometimes you will hit the jackpot and displease everyone. So do your research, pray, talk to hubby, and make your decisions. Now that you have children you will get a whole bunch of unasked for advice.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 2:11:33 PM
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So, I'm starting to get flack from people when we tell them we are not feeding anything but formula to Derrek until 6 months. Grrrrrr.....! Isn't that the recommendation right now, 6 months?
It depends on the individual baby.
Btw, bottle-fed babies tend to need solids earlier than breast-fed babies do.
The main thing to look for is if Derrek seems content, sleeps well or reasonably well, and is putting on weight. If he is, then solids don't need to come into the picture.
If though, say, he's been sleeping well at night, then suddenly keeps waking and wanting a bottle, and you're already up to the maximum on the bottle, or if, in the day, he keeps wanting bottles outside of what has become "normal" for him, and he's already up to the max on the bottle, you might want to try him on a little oatmeal some time in the day. But solids are rarely needed earlier than about 4-5 months. I started my ds at about 3 months, and it was too early. I started my dd a bit later, at just over 4 months, and that was far better.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 2:14:54 PM
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Sadly Sharon you should probably just prepare yourself. You are now on a path that people will fuss at you because you started food too early/ no too late, you used sleep training/ you didn't use sleep training, you didn't use a black and white mobile (I really go that one), basically you are going to make a ton of big and little decisions and none of them are going to please everyone. Sometimes you will hit the jackpot and displease everyone. So do your research, pray, talk to hubby, and make your decisions. Now that you have children you will get a whole bunch of unasked for advice.
What Karen said.
Practice smiling and saying "Thanks for that - I'll bear that in mind", and then moving the subject on to something else.
I researched everything myself, asked questions of mums as to what they'd done, and then decided what was right for us. Both my mother and my MIL were quite forceful about what they thought I should and should not be doing with my babies, but I just did the smile thing, and got on with what Dave and I had decided we'd do.
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RE: Baby Chat 7 - 12/19/2009 4:14:17 PM
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My mother still will not let it go that I don't put undershirts on my babies. She is convinced my son got an ear infection because....he doesn't wear an undershirt. It doesn't matter than both my babies are really hot and a undershirt would have them actively sweating, nope it is the cause of any ailment.
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