Otherwise also, she's doing great. She's ahead in some ways, trying to sit up. The nurse told me that we should start giving her tastes of our own food - salted, spiced, everything. Just to stay away from milk, honey, and instant soup mix. (!!!). It's interesting, how is it that they are so far away from what you generally hear/read about giving babies solids. She's not even 6 months old, and they want me to give her tastes of chicken? And what about staying away from peanut butter (not even for allergy reasons, but isn't it a choking hazard this young?), wheat, egg whites, etc? It's as if they've never heard of allergies.
I'm confused as to whether it's because they just disagree with the rest of the world, or are just completely out of touch with the generally accepted medical opinions. My inclination is to the latter. Especially after seeing the nurse's face when she saw Yemima try to sit up, lifting her head and shoulders and almost all her back. It was as if she'd never seen a baby do that before. Call that experienced much?
We're still working on sleeping through the night. Seeing as she still downs 1-2 full bottles every night, crying it out isn't going to work for us. Nuff said. We do have our evenings though, which is a lot and I am very grateful for them.
Eden's hebrew birthday crept up on us. It's this Sunday! And I totally forgot to call her teacher and plan a gan party for her, and now her two best friends had theirs together and she's been very sad about it ever since. So now we are racing to put something together for her - or even two somethings, one for gan friends and one for neighborhood friends/our friends. And then in another month or more we're going to celebrate the English date. Very confusing. I mean it is a milestone birthday (five!!! my baby is five years old!!!), but does that mean that it has to last a full month? It seems that it does.
One big thing I do want to do for her is get the cake of her dreams. Ever since our trip to Disney back in November, she's had a bit of thing for princesses, and she wants ALL of them on her cake. This one I'm going to order - no Dunkin Heinz for us this year. It'll be BIG, PINK, and CHOCOLATE. Some of her favorite things. Her friends will be very jealous. This is a good thing, seeing as she is currently painfully jealous of her friend's party at the local gymboree/child-size nuthouse, where the kids have too much fun to hear eachother.
It's never a dull moment at our house. It doesn't seem as if we've had one week where one of us isn't sick, one of us isn't totally stressed from work, Eden doesn't have a party or an event, or SOMETHING. Blogging falls by the wayside, as I knew it would, but I miss it, I do. Really I miss having something interesting to say. Well, maybe that's missing having done something interesting with my day. Isn't my day interesting? Isn't it? Isn't it? Why am I desperate for it to be interesting? I should be happy when it's lame and calm and I have nothing to write about.
Confession of the day: I sent Yemima to gan today without her bottle by mistake. Bad, bad, bad parent.
4 comments:
early exposure doesn't seem to increase risk of allergy. If anything, it might decrease it.
Who is your nurse, though?
I do know that they told us that repeated exposure to things Nomi was allergic to would make the allergy last longer. I don't know what would have happened otherwise, but do find it amazing that they all disappeared.
I think the birthdays crept up because the girls were born in Adar Bet... Kind of weird that Yirmi will be 2 on Rosh Chodesh... My girls are having their first (and probably last) birthday party and they already told me that they want Eden to come. This is one that isn't going to make her jealous :-) but I hope she'll have lots of fun (it's going to be sometime during Pesach vacation). Mazal tov & happy birthday... and the interesting parts of our life often come from inside, I think.
My dad always said that the more you aggravate the allergy, the worse it gets. I think that's the logic behind not giving babies things like that - if you don't aggravate it at all, perhaps they'll outgrow it before you even know about it.
Eden will be very excited about N and G's party!
Pesach parties are always good. Yummy pesach cake.
Why last?
I think it depends on the tipat halav. Here they gave me this whole lecture on what not to feed him (at his one-year check up). They also told me at the same appointment that I can NOW start giving him fish. I was like, oh um okaaaaay - I'd been giving him fish for months. What's the worst that can happen? You'll have to turn her upside down? ;) Heh. Just kidding. Kind of.
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