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@Adira: that is a crappy way to start the weekend. Hope the rest of your day gets better.

Look at R!! She stood up for a couple mins till she dropped the monitor.

@Adira: Ughhhh...not okay. I'm sorry that happened.

Just wondering how many times a day you ladies are giving your babies solids and how much?

Yesterday I started lunch, we'll today was more lie brunch. He eats about 1-2 oz per meal. Sometimes a lot less.

I made chicken purée yesterday, which he likes, but the smell was gross. I don't know if I'll make more meat or just buy jars.

@Smurfette: wow, she eats a lot. How many bottles is she having?

@ALV91711: A eats one 4 oz pouch a day, and some random finger foods that he really doesn't swallow all that much of.

So I went to get a pedicure and the manicurist asked me if I was having a boy or a girl. Ugh.

@ALV91711: I had no idea that what L was eating was so much! At school, midmorning, he eats a 4 ounce jar or pouch plus oatmeal. Then he has another 4 ounces for dinner.

@Adira: Rude!

@shopaholic: I haven't tried celery but that is a good idea. I want to start R getting use to food not just purees. But she had zero interest in puffs and mum mums yesterday.
Teething sucks. Glad that the Motrin helped her. We haven't tried Motrin/Advil yet, since we had to do Tylenol cause she wasn't 6 months yet.

@travellingbee: L is a porky like R!! What purees have you tried? Any meats?

@Adira: We have three actually that I bought on the classifieds. I finally put the straws in and I haven't tried them. I totally forgot this weekend. We tried to give her water through our straw while we were at lunch on Sat, gave her purees there, and she just lets it drip right out of her mouth. She doesn't seem to like water at all. Right now have a sippy cup at home and one at day care. She doesn't take either. Just likes to bang in around the high chair.

@Adira: oh that's what L does, he just let it dribble out.

I am at work today and I am pump free!! Down to nursing just morning and night. So far the boobs are taking it a little hard. Sat I was super engorged by 530, when I pumped since we went on a date night. But last night was a little better.

@Adira: I will admit it was nice but weird to not be the bag lady walking into work.

@Adira: Yeah as hard as it was to take the breaks some days, I do miss my Candy Crush time!!

@Smurfette: The boys are the same way about solids. Today, I sent two 2.5 oz. containers of food for each because they've been finishing off one and looking for more when it's all gone! As for finger foods, though, that one banana I took a pic of for IG is the only success we've had. They couldn't care less about puffs, bananas, avocados, etc. They just want me to shovel some purees in their mouths. R is such a rockstar with her physical milestones. That girl is going to be running a marathon by 8 months!

@ALV91711: The boys eat in the morning at daycare and then at dinner. They've each been polishing off a 2.5 oz. container at each meal, so today I sent two containers for each of them. We'll see if they down all of that or not. Finn fights his bottles more, but that kids loves him some solids.

Sippy cups at our house are a thing of great interest, but not a method of providing liquids! They love to hold them and will even get some water up the straw but then they promptly let it dribble out their mouths. At least they have a fascinating new toy!

@Mrs. Blue: Seriously! I found out today that she is hanging out with a boy at school that is about 9 months and was walking at 8 months. I think she is going to do it so she can keep up with him.
Glad that your boys are eating as much as R. Do they get mad when you don't feed them fast enough? R bangs her hands and feet down. I send one 3.5 oz today, so we will how she does with that.
Have you bought any mixes yet? I bought a veggie medley to try one day. I wasn't sure about buying the meat purees. Are they allowed to have that?

@Smurfette: F especially gets mad if the spoonfuls don't come quickly enough--he starts making super Baby Pterodactyl noises. When they run out, he literally screams so much he turns red, until I give him a spoon or sippy play with as a distraction. E is a little more relaxed about it--maybe cause he's chunkier and doesn't have to care so much. I was actually just wandering about the mixes and the meat combos. I ordered some meat combos from Amazon that should arrive soon because I thought I read something (maybe on Wholesome Baby Foods) about starting meats at 7 months, but I think it's probably fine whenever. As for the mixes, I think anything they've had both of before would definitely be fine, like sweet potato-apple combos, veggie mixes, etc., but I'm a little nervous about some of the other combo stuff since it's not stuff that they sell individually. We have our 6-month appt Friday, so I'll ask our ped and let you know what his advice is. I know there are sometimes allergy concerns, but since they haven't had any problems so far and don't have any significant family allergies, I suspect I can be a pretty relaxed about introducing new foods/combos, minus stuff like peanuts.

I love that R is trying to keep up with the big boys at school. That cracks me up. She's such an overachiever already!

@Adira: You can definitely still say that. I'm going to think of them as my "tiny babies" until they're at least 65, so I have no problem using that phrase for the rest of our lives!

@Mrs. Blue: @Smurfette: I think you ladies should be okay with mixes if it only has ONE new food in it. Like say your LOs have had banana and apple before, but not mango and the mix is a banana-apple-mango mix. Then if they DO have a reaction, you know it's to the mango!

@Mrs. Blue: @Smurfette: I just can't get over that you ladies are already talking about mixes and meats!!! I feel like I've JUST gotten Xander to actually EAT cereal and am trying to introduce veggies and fruits! I feel so behind in the solids department, haha!

@Smurfette: R makes Xander seem sooooooo behind, what with all her eating, crawling, pulling to stand! Xander's like "Hey dude, just lay me on the floor and I won't move..."