This morning:
Eleanor, squealing in mostly-fake terror: "Mommy, there's a spider in my room!"
I look. I see no spider, nor anything else crawling.
Miles, in his bossy big-brother way: "Count the legs. If it has 8 legs, it's a spider. If it has no legs, it's...uh...a fuzz. Or a hair."
Eleanor: "Ummmm....it has two antennae and five legs!"
Miles, disparagingly: "Then it's the fan. That's the only thing that has five legs."
I would like to include some Juliet anecdotes here, but so far she mostly just sits, cheerful and grinning at us while she eats her fingers or perhaps a shoe. She is working on creeping, but so far only manages to go backwards, and gets very annoyed about it.
Still zero luck on solid food with her. For a couple weeks, we tried just sticking chunks of whatever we were eating (that was not a baby-taboo food, that is) onto her tray. Every single time, she throws up. So the doctor suggested we try very liquidy rice cereal for several weeks. She does the usual baby tongue-thrust thing and doesn't eat that either. And yes, if it gets too far back in her throat, she starts retching again. I guess it's possible that she just isn't ready for solid food yet, but she's 7 1/2 months old, so that's a little unusual. I'm beginning to wonder if there could be something with her tongue or throat that's shaped weird and triggering her gag reflex too easily. We'll give the rice cereal a couple more weeks, and then bug the doctor again. She is taking in plenty of formula, at least, and can finally hold her own bottle - yay!
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4 years ago
Man, Miles cracks me up!
ReplyDeleteI know some babies that didn't drop the tongue reflex until even later. Did you happen to ask about the tongue tie?
Sounds like you were kind of trying baby-led weaning, eh (the book is way more informative than online info, I found)? The philosophy is that "food before 1 is just for fun" and formula/BM should be the main nutrition until then. She won't eat formula only forever! No rush, IMO....
Yeah, I figured we'd try it, since letting her finger-feed what we're eating is way easier than mixing up some pureed something separate. I'm not worried about her not getting the nutrition - she's great with drinking her formula - but I've read and heard that starting on solids very late can be much more of a battle. And now that we've been trying unsuccessfully for over a month, I'm wondering if something's wrong with this gag reflex.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, we think she ate some shredded cheese last night. But it could have just been squished around and scattered; hard to tell.