Friday, December 13, 2002
Thursday, December 12, 2002
BRAT
No, I'm not calling DS or anyone else a brat. I just learned from my pumpmoms email list that Banana, Rice, Applesauce, and Toast are things that can lead to consitpation and are sometimes "prescribed" to help relieve diarrhea. DS has been having rice cereal every weekday for the past 2 weeks. He has had banana quick a bit (and likes it a lot). His BMs are definitely solid now. I can even shake a diaper and get the deposit to fall into the toilet. I guess I need to get in gear and introduce some other fruits so he can have some variety. The pear at home should be ripe enough to try tomorrow evening.
No, I'm not calling DS or anyone else a brat. I just learned from my pumpmoms email list that Banana, Rice, Applesauce, and Toast are things that can lead to consitpation and are sometimes "prescribed" to help relieve diarrhea. DS has been having rice cereal every weekday for the past 2 weeks. He has had banana quick a bit (and likes it a lot). His BMs are definitely solid now. I can even shake a diaper and get the deposit to fall into the toilet. I guess I need to get in gear and introduce some other fruits so he can have some variety. The pear at home should be ripe enough to try tomorrow evening.
Quote of the Month - The Natural Child Project "It is wisdom to believe the heart." - George Santayana
Sad
I unsubscribed from Midwifery Today - Pregnancy, Birth, Homebirth and Midwife Information the email newsletter. There are several reasons, but the sad one is that it doesn't make me happy to read it anymore. One of the articles today was about how induction often leads to more intereventions. That's too close to home for me. I know our decisions were the best at the time, but I guess I am still grieving the birth experience I had hoped for. I do believe that we used as little intervention as possible, and we put off things the doctors and nurses wanted to do until we had tried less invasive options, but I still have a scar across my belly and in my heart. I just can't read about that stuff right now. The less emotional reasons include my mailbox being so full of baby and parenting newsletters and email that it's time to move away from the pregnancy and birth newsletters. I will definitely resub if I get pg again, though.
I unsubscribed from Midwifery Today - Pregnancy, Birth, Homebirth and Midwife Information the email newsletter. There are several reasons, but the sad one is that it doesn't make me happy to read it anymore. One of the articles today was about how induction often leads to more intereventions. That's too close to home for me. I know our decisions were the best at the time, but I guess I am still grieving the birth experience I had hoped for. I do believe that we used as little intervention as possible, and we put off things the doctors and nurses wanted to do until we had tried less invasive options, but I still have a scar across my belly and in my heart. I just can't read about that stuff right now. The less emotional reasons include my mailbox being so full of baby and parenting newsletters and email that it's time to move away from the pregnancy and birth newsletters. I will definitely resub if I get pg again, though.
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
This document contains Tips, Recipes, Links to more oatmeal recipes & finally, a poem -- you probably can't see this page unless you are logged in to Yahoo Groups and a member of PumpMoms, but I want to put it here anyway.
The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- A father's quest -- I'm all for this dad feeding his son breastmilk, but I don't think the insurance company should be forced to pay for it. When you get insurance, you know what is covered and what is not. If you choose treatment or substances that are not covered, you pay out of pocket. That's the way it works. Insurance companies being forced to pay for things that they wouldn't ordinarily cover is part of what drives up insurance rates. Hopefully this couple had life insurance on the mom; that would help pay for milk.
Monday, December 09, 2002
A Developmental Checklist: 6 to 8 Months -- DS can do a lot of this stuff. It seems like he's "right on track".
Friday, December 06, 2002
A Mother's Love - today's Upper Room devotional - it made me cry. (I think I'm a little stressed out right now.)
Crying
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer -- I wonder if we should get this book?
Of the past 6 nights, I have been the one to get DS to sleep originally only twice. Saturday night a friend came over because DH and I went to a concert for a date (our first night out together without DS since late August!). Sunday I nursed and held DS to sleep. Monday he was at our neighbors asleep on the living room floor when I went to pick him up. We had not sent pajamas or a night diaper (or nipples for the bottles of milk), so he was quite awake for a while before going back to sleep. Tuesday he was snoozing on another friend's couch surrounded by safety buffers in his pj's and night diaper. Wednesday was my turn again. He had some trouble falling asleep, so I took him to our bed and nursed laying down, where we both fell asleep. And last night DH got him ready, including feeding 2 bottles, then held DS while he cried for 20-25 minutes before finally calming down and falling asleep. The ladies who babysat for us all said that DS "was good". So why does he cry for Daddy? This was very frustrating to DH last night, and I felt very bad for him when I got home. Should I be doing something different so DS doesn't get used to falling asleep nursing at home? But if that were truly the problem, Saturday night would not have gone well. Should we try to reintroduce the pacifier, so if DS is too upset to find his fingers to suck to sooth himself, at least we can try to trigger the suck / sooth combination? That doesn't seem like the right thing to do either. Or should I stop going out in the evening? That seems drastic, but most of the time (except for "dates" with DH) I would rather be at home with DS than whereever else I have made a committment to be.
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer -- I wonder if we should get this book?
Of the past 6 nights, I have been the one to get DS to sleep originally only twice. Saturday night a friend came over because DH and I went to a concert for a date (our first night out together without DS since late August!). Sunday I nursed and held DS to sleep. Monday he was at our neighbors asleep on the living room floor when I went to pick him up. We had not sent pajamas or a night diaper (or nipples for the bottles of milk), so he was quite awake for a while before going back to sleep. Tuesday he was snoozing on another friend's couch surrounded by safety buffers in his pj's and night diaper. Wednesday was my turn again. He had some trouble falling asleep, so I took him to our bed and nursed laying down, where we both fell asleep. And last night DH got him ready, including feeding 2 bottles, then held DS while he cried for 20-25 minutes before finally calming down and falling asleep. The ladies who babysat for us all said that DS "was good". So why does he cry for Daddy? This was very frustrating to DH last night, and I felt very bad for him when I got home. Should I be doing something different so DS doesn't get used to falling asleep nursing at home? But if that were truly the problem, Saturday night would not have gone well. Should we try to reintroduce the pacifier, so if DS is too upset to find his fingers to suck to sooth himself, at least we can try to trigger the suck / sooth combination? That doesn't seem like the right thing to do either. Or should I stop going out in the evening? That seems drastic, but most of the time (except for "dates" with DH) I would rather be at home with DS than whereever else I have made a committment to be.
Thursday, December 05, 2002
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Solids at daycare
Yesterday DS tried (and apparently liked) rice cereal from a box. I was sort of hoping he wouldn't like it, but since he seems to like everything we have fed him I shouldn't be surprised. The menu said banana with breakfast, but they had pineapple instead, so we passed on the fruit in the morning. The menu also said apples with lunch, so I asked that the teacher puree some for him. They had applesause instead, and since it comes from the residence hall cafeteria I'm sure it was not "no sugar added". :-( Fortunately he didn't eat very much of it. (I've read somewhere that everything except banana needs to be cooked, so at least his applesauce was cooked since it was commercial, instead of getting raw apple.) Today I packed 1/2 a mushed banana and 2 pumpkin cubes for him so he won't have food that I don't know about in advance. I need to start thinking ahead in the evenings, even more than before!
Yesterday DS tried (and apparently liked) rice cereal from a box. I was sort of hoping he wouldn't like it, but since he seems to like everything we have fed him I shouldn't be surprised. The menu said banana with breakfast, but they had pineapple instead, so we passed on the fruit in the morning. The menu also said apples with lunch, so I asked that the teacher puree some for him. They had applesause instead, and since it comes from the residence hall cafeteria I'm sure it was not "no sugar added". :-( Fortunately he didn't eat very much of it. (I've read somewhere that everything except banana needs to be cooked, so at least his applesauce was cooked since it was commercial, instead of getting raw apple.) Today I packed 1/2 a mushed banana and 2 pumpkin cubes for him so he won't have food that I don't know about in advance. I need to start thinking ahead in the evenings, even more than before!
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