Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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On Eating and Drinking
by Mama LionAfter I had posted about Baby Lion refusing solids and doing everything to get him to eat solids, I just gave up and was just going to wait for him to show me that he was ready. However, I guess daddy didn't give up. Hubby does morning duties now and has been since Mother's Day
and I guess he was still feeding Baby Lion solids in the morning. I caught him one morning feeding Baby Lion and I was watching to see how he was doing it and he was feeding him while Baby Lion was watching TV. Ah ha! *ding* *ding* *ding* I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but I guess TV distracts him enough that he'll just open up and say ahh without even thinking about it.Being a mommy is so hard. Before baby I never imagined that I'd have to think of all these creative ways to do things and just thought that diaper changing, feeding baby, putting him to sleep, etc. would be just that. Who knew it took so much effort and THINKING! So Baby Lion now eats solids 2-3x/day and I can see that he is starting to chew now and will actually bite into his snacks and chew instead of shoving the whole thing in and letting it melt on its own. And on top of the solids and snacks he drinks 6oz of milk every 2.5-3 hours and drinks 5oz about 2 times at night. How do I get him to stop waking up, how do I get him to stop drinking at night???
Anyhoo... We introduced the sippy cup to Baby Lion when he was 5 months old and although he did drink from it, he doesn't drink much from it and actually has no interest in it. However, he shows MUCH interest in regular cups and will insist on drinking from them. I guess one day my mom let him drink water from a regular cup and he actually drank from it! So I guess we're going to skip the sippy cups for now and I'm gonna go out to Ikea and buy some tumblers for him to drink out of:
($1.99 for 6)
He also shows a lot of interest in the drinks that we drink out of with straws (like when we get fast food). He totally grabs our drink and puts the straw in his mouth. I'm not sure if he'll be able to drink out of it since I never let him try since there's always soda in our cups, but I'm gonna go out and buy some flexi-straws too. I can't believe my almost 9 month old baby is into all these grown up stuff. They grow up TOO fast *sniff*Did you transition your baby from bottle to sippy cup or regular cup? How about straws?
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I skipped to regular cups. I don't really get weaning from one thing just to wean from another. I've also heard there's some concern about sippy cups and mouth development. Of course I nursed my daughter for over 2 years so she didn't care too much about cups.
I also worried a lot about solids and getting her to eat, but now with my son I plan on taking my time. I might skip 'baby food' all together. He is a hoss though., so he might feel otherwise!
I think my daughter would try straws but couldn't get the sucking down for awhile. They're still fun though!
When I put my son to bed I feed him about an hour before, something light but filling, then put 8-10oz milk in his bottle, he sleeps all night since he was tiny. This does not work for each baby, but the reason they often wake up is habit or they are hungry.
By this age I wouldn't think your baby needs anything at night - it's probably just habit. My kids slept through the night early so I haven't actually been through this but have heard that if you can get them back to sleep without feeding them they will break the habit in a week or so.....
My daughter is 14 months and will drink water out of a sippy cup but only wants milk in a bottle. Maybe I should try to give her a regular cup with the milk.......
I did sippy cups with my first, thinking how ingenious, a way for a little person to have a drink without the spillage. But cleaning them out was difficult, and those sippy cup parts got nasty, quick. After that, I just waited until my kids were old enough to take sips out of a regular cup, which graduated to them being able to it themselves at a pretty young age (well before 2 years old) Yeah, the spills happened too, which is why we try to restrict most drinking to the kitchen, where it's easier to clean up.
I did sippy cups b/c of the mess factor -- I also used the take and toss cups for that - they didn't have messy parts to clean up -- as far as straws all of mine learned sucking from a straw before they were a year old.
My little guy is too young yet for sippy cups...but I know that the IKEA cups are really a lot of fun...and for the price, well worth the beating they are going to get!
We use some Nuby sippy cups. No valve on them ... so so muscle development issues. Maren can drink from a regular cup...but of course if we let her just take it the she either drowns herself or gets it everywhere. So ... we do both. Regular cup/tumbler with mamma daddy help and sippy cup she can do on her own.
They do grow up so fast!!!!
My 6 month old is already all about "grown up" food. She loves cut up fruit...watermelon, cantalope ect...and she loves cake and cookies and mash potatoes. I don't know where she would get this from *whistles* so we're giving her stuff that doesn't have any preservatives or artifical stuff that I know is bad for her. She also LOVES drinking from a big girl cup and waterbottles so we were thinking about introducing sippy cups sometime soon...we've yet to try a straw, we might do that soon.
As far as sleeping through the night...she just started doing it out of the blue and 1 night turned into 2 which turned into a week...which now has been about a month. We didn't do anything different, it just kinda happened. Lucky us, I guess.
thanks to mcdonalds and mom's soda runs, my nephews all drank from straws at early ages. haha good luck with those cups!
Rock 'n' Roll Baby nearly refused to drink out of anything except a bottle at home (he was too lazy to hold his own sippy cup), but then I found out he WAS drinking from a sippy cup at daycare! I guess we tend to hyper-focus on his eating and drinking habits at home, while at daycare, they just let him get on with it - and he does! The transition to normal cups still hasn't happened (he is now 14 months old), because he likes to bang his cup on the table in between sips... NOT FUNNY! But I guess we should start trying soon - all the books say to start working on normal cups from the age of 9 months, because it's better for the teeth than all that sucking, apparently. So really, you're lucky you got to skip the sippy-cup stage! Good for you
My son loved solids right off the bat - he would eat a whole slice of bread at 6 months! He really likes to do it all on his own, so instead of giving him mashed food, we skipped to chunks could grab hold of (boiled carrots, any boiled vegetable that can be sliced in a potato-chip shape, pieced of chicked with no skin, that sort of thing) and he lost interest in anything mashed at about 9 or 10 months. I guess we'll all have our challenges, just in different departments, no? I do worry about the sippy cup thing... Will have to start trying the messy method soon