I've got to say it has been quite an adjustment having Jake go to work during the day. I got used to having him around helping with Jessica. It is a lot harder being on my own all day. When she starts to cry and nothing I do helps Jake isn't there to take her and make her happy. I just hold her and comfort her and wait for her to stop crying. I think she is in the midst of hardcore teething. She has been frantically biting everything and the past week she has had a rash on her chin. Poor little baby doesn't know why her mouth hurts so badly.
The last few days I have been giving her apple juice in a sippy cup. She is doing really well with it. I think she would be happier if I would just hold it for her though. It is so cute to see her with a hand around each handle and her drinking from it like a big girl. My little baby is growing up!!
We just had her pictures taken professionally. Unfortunately we don't get them back until April 30th. It was hard to decide which pose to get. Last time we only got 2 shots before she started crying. This time we got about 10 and they were all super cute! I will scan and post the picture when we got them.
I have been worried lately that I am over feeding her. I would like to know what everyone who has had kids thinks of it. Whenever I feed her baby food I mix in rice cereal to thicken it up. It makes it so she doesn't throw it up afterwards. Here is her daily eating schedule.
6am - 1 extremely full breast
sleeps for 2 or so more hours
8am - 1 more extremely full breast
10am - 3.5 ounces of baby food then breastfeed
nap for about 2 hours average
12pm - breast feed
3pm - 7 ounces of baby food then breastfeed
nap for about 1 hour average
6pm - breastfeed
8pm - 7 ounces of baby food then breastfeed
she then goes to bed for the night
So all of you mothers out there is that too much food for a 7 month old? When it comes to feeding her baby food I basically feed it to her until she won't eat anymore. I've tried to give her less and she gets mad when I stop. If I feed her until she won't eat anymore she is happy and smiling. Usually I feed her 1 3.5 oz container of baby food at a time. Today I fed her both at once and I couldn't believe how much that was. I can't believe her stomach is big enough to hold all that. She doesn't throw it up so she has got to be putting it somewhere.
Here are some super cute pics I have taken recently of my little Jessica...
CUUUTE pictures!!! Isn't it crazy how fast they grow?
As far as her eating schedule goes, I've always heard that you can feed them as much as they'll eat...if they're full, they'll let you know. Ayla has 5 bottles a day which usually equals 24-30 ounces and eats solids 3 times a day. Lately, she hasn't been so big on solids though...especially dinner...she'll have a few bites and refuses to eat anymore. In the morning, I mix oatmeal with a level 1 container of fruit; just a container of veggies for lunch; and rice with a couple TBS of a dinner meal and then some fruit. I don't ever really measure anything.
It's a little frustrating when she doesn't eat well, but she's always been like that and still continues to grow and put on weight, so I try not to worry too much!
Agreed. Babys will stop when they are full and you won't be able to really force it in unless you have the jaws of life and don't care about them crying. ;) A fantastic source for questions is www.mamasource.com. Katie uses it all the time for local questions and answers.