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@JoJoGirl: @maybebaby: this one: http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Led-Weaning-Essential-Introducing-Confident/dp/161519021X

Although typing it out it seems a little nutso to buy a whole book about how to feed your baby real food?? Maybe a book is not necessary. At any rate, I've put Baby L's papa in charge. I figured I was doing all the obsessing about sleep, and there's no extra room in my brain for obsessing about food, too. I told him to do the research, decide what he felt was best, and I'd trust his judgement. We'll see what he comes up with--he was initially interested in BLW, but our ped recommended veggie purees to start, so we'll see. Feels liberating to have (sort of) relinquished control, though!

@ms.badger: yes, please let us know how you like the book! it's on my kindle (as is the No Cray Nap Solution) but I haven't read them yet...

@anniegurumi: welcome back! I feel your pain... and I think moving is hard on the babies, too. We just relocated overseas 2.5 weeks ago and LO was a hot mess until the end of last week. Moving is generally really hard on children, and although I thought that wouldn't really apply to babies, I think I was wrong. There's concrete stuff like time differences, new environments, but also they pick up on parental stress, seeing new faces and missing old ones, etc. She's doing much better now but moving + sleep regression was a major bummer for us... here's hoping some of the fussiness eases up soon for you, too?

So if and when you see my last post and are worried for my sanity, we've figured something out. My LO is teething and in pain - not scream inducing pain just constant whining pain. I thought that he couldn't be teething because he's not really drooling (and he used to drool like crazy) but I talked to my mom and she said everything Lucas is doing now is like when my siblings and I teethed. I gave him a little tylenol before bed (1/2 dose) and he slept 8 pm - 8am with 2 wake-ups. I felt a little bad giving him tylenol just to get him to sleep but my mom made sense when she told me you either have a baby with little sleep and uncomfortable or a baby who is fully rested and comfortable with a little tylenol - and sleep is just so important. So there I am - much better than yesterday

@mrsbookworm: I waiver between thinking it will be nice when his teeth are in and he's back to my happy baby and being terrified of him breast feeding with teeth

...and now baby L has begun refusing, for the most part, to nurse in public. So what with my effort towards getting her to nap regularly in her crib, seems like I will never leave the house ever again.

@Ms.Badger: Have you considered letting him CIO in the MOTN? We're in the process of working on that and she STTN for the first time ever last night. I was so terrified but the first time we did it she cried for... 10 mins and then put herself to sleep.

It's been a month so do we want to do a status update?

What's your LO's favorite thing now?
What milestone did your LO recently achieve/is currently working on?
What are your Halloween plans? LO's costume?
How is sleep going?
How is eating going?
What's one thing that makes you happy right now?
Recent picture (if you want)

@ms.badger: gah! what a cutie!

What's your LO's favorite thing now? Also her feet! And she is finally warming up to Sophie (whose spots have all come off... Wtf?). Sadly she is also really into my phone, which has prompted many tears when I won't give it to her. Anyone else dealing with this? I try not to be on it much when she's awake, but sometimes a girl has got to send a text, or check google maps! I was dreading this battle, and here it is...

What milestone did your LO recently achieve/is currently working on? Trying to sit, rolling across the room, and the ped just said there's a tooth on its way.

What are your Halloween plans? LO's costume? We are living abroad and Halloween isn't much of a thing here

How is sleep going? This week it has been uhmazing. I can't even type it out for fear of jinxing things. Hoping it's not just due to the leftover cold. Not only are nights and naps going well, she has relearned how to put herself to sleep. She hasn't been able to do that since we swaddle-weaned at 3.5 months. She's now sucking her thumb in her crib, which helps. And is ADORABLE.

How is eating going? Sort of sucks. She has become super distracted and nursing in public is a messy challenge. Even nursing when her papa is in the room is tricky! And she's not crazy about the bottle, so... She's super interested in our food, so we're starting solids this week or next.

What's one thing that makes you happy right now? She's in a really good mood most of the time, playing independently or with one of us or her sitter. She's fun to be around! Which is pretty awesome!

@mjane: @JoJoGirl: Whoo Hoo for improved sleep all around!

@Cupcake: I love that tentative smile in the bath!

OMG all these LOs are too cute!

What's your LO's favorite thing now? Like many of your LOs, J is obsessed with his feet, especially when they are bare and he can get all 5 toes in his mouth. Gross!! He also loves chewing on our hands.
What milestone did your LO recently achieve/is currently working on? He is still not consistently rolling and just rolling fron to back...he is laughing a lot more which is so much fun!
What are your Halloween plans? LO's costume? We are hosting our 4th annual Pumpkin Party on Sunday and he will wear a Mommy's Little Pumpkin onesie...no real costume
How is sleep going? Meh, we have good days and bad...last night it was every 2 hours
How is eating going? He is eating every 1.5 hrs during the day (yikes!) and is a super distracted nurser unless he is sleepy.
What's one thing that makes you happy right now? What a little personality he is developing. He is sweet, funny charming and bashful. I am loving this age so much!
Recent picture (if you want): This is him at 12 days on the left and 20 weeks on the right.

@mssally: that's awesome! Good naps are the most beautiful thing.

I am doing a half-assed CIO here, as LO basically won't be nursed, rocked, or bounced to sleep anymore and I didn't see another way out. She can often put herself to sleep with zero or a couple of seconds of fussing, but sometimes it takes longer. At this point I'm unwilling to let her go longer than 15 minutes but I may be making it harder for both of us with that attitude. I just don't know!

@mssally: by now things are pretty good. She rarely full on cries for more than a minute or two; if she does I go in (for naps). that smile when you go in is just an amazing combo of infuriating/adorable, isn't it?! Mostly it's fussing/babbling for a few minutes max, sometimes up to ten. I feel like we're on a good road. Is sleep training still going well for you?

How is feeding going for everyone else? We started BLW this week, with banana. It went fine... super cute to see her with the food, super messy, all fun and games until the hideous diaper rash set in. Can't be a coincidence, as she's never had it before (she's had little bumps and red patches, but this was full on angriness). Horrible! From bananas, no less! Not sure what to do now.

@mssally: I gave her a half a banana with some of the skin peeled back and she gnawed bits off the top. A lot of it wound up on the tray/floor, but she definitely swallowed some. Once she'd gotten the bits off the unpeeled part, I took the rest and sliced it up into longish strips (read about this on a BLW board here). She could hold those okay and got some into her mouth. I think we'll do some purees, too, but I will probably spoon-feed her those. The banana thing was enough of a mess... my OCD soul can't stomach the idea of just putting puree on the high chair tray and letting her go to town... shudder.

@Ms.Badger: yeah, so far she seems to not be much of a fan of anything besides banana. I'm pretty lax so in your situation I guess I would say keep offering bland stuff pretty regularly but don't push him to eat it? interesting to see what the ped says... What are you inclined to do?

I am living abroad and realizing how cultural the feeding thing is... our ped here gave us completely different guidelines than our ped at home, and of course both those guidelines are different from BLW, and different from what my parents did, etc. Pretty hilarious. Remember, they all wind up eating in the end!

I've been meaning to join this May 2013 baby board and finally have time to update it tonight!

What's your LO's favorite thing now?
Loves to flip multiple times (like playing a game of rollover), diaper changes can be tough unless I make funny faces or silly noises to entertain her long enough, it's a hit or miss though, it doesn't work every single time. She also likes to sleep on her tummy but I end up putting her on her back once she is in a deep sleep. She likes to nibble the arms & legs of her giraffe wubbanub and Sophie.

What milestone did your LO recently achieve/is currently working on?
Starting to sit up unassisted, army crawl, has 1 bottom tooth, and we started solids a few weeks ago.

What are your Halloween plans? LO's costume?
She was a butterfly and broke out in hives from eating avocados that day so we missed a Halloween party.

How is sleep going?
Sleep is great (so far so good)! Naps are getting harder since she's fighting them but she gets at least one long nap in daily. Not really STTN yet but manageable, sleeps from 9pm ish - 7am with 1 feeding in between.

How is eating going?
Eating is somewhat a struggle. It's harder than I anticipated. I tried BLW at first with banana then avocados but she broke out in hives from mashed avocados. So we are on purée pouches now. Some days she's a great eater, some days she spits her food out.

What's one thing that makes you happy right now?
When she responds to my voice and smiles back at me. I love to hear her laugh out loud too. Her laughter and smiles make me forget all of my worries!

@Ms.Badger: Hello fellow May mommy! Can't believe our babies will be closer to the 1 year mark than being a newborn. I was really sad that she broke out in hives from the avocados b/c she ate it so well and it's a known superfood with the good cholesterol. Btw, your baby is so handsome! That's awesome that his cousins live closer now. We had the opposite happen, our cousins moved 8 hours away so we only see them during the holidays now,

@mjane: "You never know" is right! I've been buying Gerber dinner purées this week (I said I wouldn't in the beginning) and she seems to like it better than the mashed up foods. I am really, really interested in BLW though so I am going to revisit it next week.

@Ms.Badger: Thinking of you and praying for this cute little boys of yours!!! Sending lots of positive thoughts and love to you and your family!