i know i promised pictures of idaho next....and i promise they are coming...i just keep forgetting to have billy move them off of his camera...which i would do if i knew which of his 10 memory cards they are on...and how to go from raw to jpeg...which i don't, so idaho is coming soon, hopefully before our trip to california next week...busy summer!
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so i have been a little disheartened the last few days....bug has decided he hates solid food...i thought at first i was feeding him too late...so i moved up the time a couple of hours....still not working with the rice cereal...and then i tried going from making it with pear juice (which we have been trying for a while because, well, you know why...) back to breastmilk...still no go...then we tried mixing it with peaches a few days ago....nope....then we tried oatmeal mixed with sweet potatoes today....nada....i even bought different spoons thinking maybe he doesn't like the rubber ones anymore...nothing has worked....
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so i have decided to try finger feeding the baby food just to get him to taste things for a few weeks and trying the rice cereal in a bottle....if that still doesn't work then we might just have to take a break....which is hard to swallow for me because it's not like he never liked rice cereal! so i know he is ready because he gulped it up three weeks ago! and it's not just rice cereal he is refusing it is everything! so we will keep trying....but it's really hard to see him squirm with the heeby jeebies when he sees the spoon coming at him...and even harder to watch him gag after i get the stuff into his mouth! oh boy...he is a stubborn one...
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i've also been struggling with the fact that cam is approaching the big 6 month mark...oh yes...this week in fact....and he is doing great...and i am so excited for him...but i can't help but feel that we will really start to see the delays soon...and maybe i am wrong...but i keep looking at all of the milestones that are fast approaching and wondering if he will make it...i know that i shouldn't...what happened to letting camden decide when he is ready.... i do this every once in a while...i forget that camden is a kid...and well, all kids decide their own timeline...and camden is no different....so i have to remind myself to push when we can....and leave the rest up to him...but it gets hard to remember that sometimes...
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ok, enough with the venting...have i mentioned how much we have loved this month and the blossoming from an infant into a big baby...my little guy looks more and more like a little boy each day and although hard to watch because, well, what mom doesn't try to stop time and yell at nature to slow down just a tad...i am enjoying him right now, just as he is...but then he does something new...something exciting....he shows some personality....and i fall in love all over again with this little boy....and i give into nature and say ok this stage is good too...but no more growing ok!
so i have been a little disheartened the last few days....bug has decided he hates solid food...i thought at first i was feeding him too late...so i moved up the time a couple of hours....still not working with the rice cereal...and then i tried going from making it with pear juice (which we have been trying for a while because, well, you know why...) back to breastmilk...still no go...then we tried mixing it with peaches a few days ago....nope....then we tried oatmeal mixed with sweet potatoes today....nada....i even bought different spoons thinking maybe he doesn't like the rubber ones anymore...nothing has worked....
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so i have decided to try finger feeding the baby food just to get him to taste things for a few weeks and trying the rice cereal in a bottle....if that still doesn't work then we might just have to take a break....which is hard to swallow for me because it's not like he never liked rice cereal! so i know he is ready because he gulped it up three weeks ago! and it's not just rice cereal he is refusing it is everything! so we will keep trying....but it's really hard to see him squirm with the heeby jeebies when he sees the spoon coming at him...and even harder to watch him gag after i get the stuff into his mouth! oh boy...he is a stubborn one...
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i've also been struggling with the fact that cam is approaching the big 6 month mark...oh yes...this week in fact....and he is doing great...and i am so excited for him...but i can't help but feel that we will really start to see the delays soon...and maybe i am wrong...but i keep looking at all of the milestones that are fast approaching and wondering if he will make it...i know that i shouldn't...what happened to letting camden decide when he is ready.... i do this every once in a while...i forget that camden is a kid...and well, all kids decide their own timeline...and camden is no different....so i have to remind myself to push when we can....and leave the rest up to him...but it gets hard to remember that sometimes...
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ok, enough with the venting...have i mentioned how much we have loved this month and the blossoming from an infant into a big baby...my little guy looks more and more like a little boy each day and although hard to watch because, well, what mom doesn't try to stop time and yell at nature to slow down just a tad...i am enjoying him right now, just as he is...but then he does something new...something exciting....he shows some personality....and i fall in love all over again with this little boy....and i give into nature and say ok this stage is good too...but no more growing ok!
yes the ear holding has made its way into our teething process...but he doesn't seem too upset with them, hopefully teething is all that it is...
No major advice here, as you say, he'll do it on his own schedule. But have you tried letting him hold a spoon too? Sometimes Max is stubborn because he wants to feed himself (yeah right - not looking forward to that mess!), but it helps if he has a spoon and then while he is trying to put it in his mouth (with nothing on it), I slip my filled spoon in his mouth... just a thought.
ReplyDeleteHang in there :)
i know that we are a few weeks behind you guys, but i have been feeling a lot of the same frustrations. addison started doing this thing with her solid foods (which she originally loved) where she would taste it and then push it out with her tongue. her OT said that it was her telling me that she wasn't ready yet, but how could she be ready and then change back again? anyway, i took a week off and then tried again tonight and she gulped it down again..who knows what will happen next.....do you guys have an OT?
ReplyDeleteI don't have any great advice, but Porter went through this as well. I've noticed it happens when something else is going on like working on a new skill or he doesn't feel well. You two will figure it out!
ReplyDeleteI wrote in my journal last night about the anxiety I feel about Porter's development, I'm there with you. I try to remember all I can do is give him the help and support he needs the rest in up to him and God. My little guy sure does teach me a lot about faith, but I seem to forget often.
P.S. He's so cute!!!
Sutter did it too...he ate great for a couple of weeks! I made a TON of food, froze it and sure enough he wouldn't eat. UGH So, I stopped trying for a couple of weeks and then tried again....all of the food I had frozen is now gone, he eats solids twice a day and I just said tonight that I might add lunch too. He is LOVING his food and doing great! Taking a break was hard for me because my oldest was and is a great eater and has been from his first bite of solids. Just another reminder that all kids are different!
ReplyDeleteHang in there...before you know it he'll be eating up a storm and hitting those milestones!!!