Saturday, July 24, 2010
9 Months Baby Check-up
July 17 officially was my little man's 9 month birthday. Time is flying by, it feels like yesterday I brought him home from the hospital and had no clue what to do next, but now it's like a breeze. He sleeps through the night, well let me take that back, he sleeps from 8:2o ish around to about 4am, wakes daddy up, he got the night shift (he he...). So the little man wakes up around 4am, I still don't know if he is hungry, cold, warm or just misses me :-)
I will figure it out one day. So he wakes up at 4am plays for about half an hour then falls asleep finally waking up at 8am ish, If I am lucky he wakes up at 8:30am. Oh how I miss the days of sleeping in, will we ever meet sleeping in days? Probably not but that's okay, this is part of the a wonderful job, taking care of the little one. Plus I have my sister to wake up at early and watch him while I get some zzzzz's, hey gotta have some perks. Plus it's her nephew and she doesn't mind.
So at our 9 month doctor appointment, the Doctor checked his vitals (a-ok) and checked his weight unfortunately it's in the 10th percentile (17lbs 4 oz). I am not so worried as I have been in the past. I was a tiny girl. My hubby was tiny too so no worries, he is active and healthy, that's all that matters. He is tall however, surprisingly (28 inches tall) apparently he is in the 50th percentile for that. I am shocked, both my hubby and I are short, not that short, but we short. I wonder if the little man will be tall...hmmmm...
Anyway, he is a-ok in the Doctor's book. Now my challenge is what should a 9 month old be eating. The Doctor said whatever is on your plate, of course certain things he cannot have yet. And I don't want to introduce sugars to him as yet, he will have the whole life to eat sugars. I wonder however if he will eat sugary items. I love candy and my husband not at all. I hope the little one loves candy. Don't tell hubby that :-)
I will figure it out one day. So he wakes up at 4am plays for about half an hour then falls asleep finally waking up at 8am ish, If I am lucky he wakes up at 8:30am. Oh how I miss the days of sleeping in, will we ever meet sleeping in days? Probably not but that's okay, this is part of the a wonderful job, taking care of the little one. Plus I have my sister to wake up at early and watch him while I get some zzzzz's, hey gotta have some perks. Plus it's her nephew and she doesn't mind.
So at our 9 month doctor appointment, the Doctor checked his vitals (a-ok) and checked his weight unfortunately it's in the 10th percentile (17lbs 4 oz). I am not so worried as I have been in the past. I was a tiny girl. My hubby was tiny too so no worries, he is active and healthy, that's all that matters. He is tall however, surprisingly (28 inches tall) apparently he is in the 50th percentile for that. I am shocked, both my hubby and I are short, not that short, but we short. I wonder if the little man will be tall...hmmmm...
Anyway, he is a-ok in the Doctor's book. Now my challenge is what should a 9 month old be eating. The Doctor said whatever is on your plate, of course certain things he cannot have yet. And I don't want to introduce sugars to him as yet, he will have the whole life to eat sugars. I wonder however if he will eat sugary items. I love candy and my husband not at all. I hope the little one loves candy. Don't tell hubby that :-)
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Baby Food Menu
Alot of fellow Mommy's ask me what was Jaiden's first Solid Foods? So I decided to blog what foods he has had and what the time frame I introduced it to him. Here we gooooo...
5 months: Rice Cereal - Once daily
5 1/2 months: switched from Rice Cereal (constipapted baby) Oatmeal (that helped) - once daily
6 months: Carrots/Oatmeal/Yams/Peas/Prunes - any one of these meals once daily
7 months: Oatmeal in the morning then either Carrots/Yams/Peas/Prunes for dinner
Now that he is a sitter I also started Banana Mango/Applesauce(got him too hyper)/Veggie Garden mix.
I also introduced him grapes in the Sassy Teething Feeder - Love it, Jaiden loves it too.
Now that he is 8 months: I will add once more meal to his menu. My plan is:
Morning - Oatmeal
Lunch - Fruit Dish
Dinner - Vegetable Dish
We still give him either breastmilk/formula four or five times a day.
Also I forgot to mention, Jaiden's doctor gave the ok for water, only four ounces per day and we could use arrowhead drinking bottle water. I keep a baby bottle of four ounces of water with me, in case he gets thirsty, plus the summer is coming so it's good to keep water handy.
5 months: Rice Cereal - Once daily
5 1/2 months: switched from Rice Cereal (constipapted baby) Oatmeal (that helped) - once daily
6 months: Carrots/Oatmeal/Yams/Peas/Prunes - any one of these meals once daily
7 months: Oatmeal in the morning then either Carrots/Yams/Peas/Prunes for dinner
Now that he is a sitter I also started Banana Mango/Applesauce(got him too hyper)/Veggie Garden mix.
I also introduced him grapes in the Sassy Teething Feeder - Love it, Jaiden loves it too.
Now that he is 8 months: I will add once more meal to his menu. My plan is:
Morning - Oatmeal
Lunch - Fruit Dish
Dinner - Vegetable Dish
We still give him either breastmilk/formula four or five times a day.
Also I forgot to mention, Jaiden's doctor gave the ok for water, only four ounces per day and we could use arrowhead drinking bottle water. I keep a baby bottle of four ounces of water with me, in case he gets thirsty, plus the summer is coming so it's good to keep water handy.
Happy Father's Day
It has been so long since I have written, man life really does happen. Jaiden's sleeping, gives me a chance to write a paragraph or two.....On May 23th, I saw a bit of white in his mouth...TEETH!!!!!
Great my breastfeeding days are slowly coming to an end, actually I decided just recently that it is best that I stop, not only because he gets so distracted while eating but because in the last couple of days, he started biting..owwww...sorry about the TMI, but seriously, it hurts. Mr. Husband keeps cheering him on. Let's see if he gets a nice Father's day gift this year.
Anyway, breastfeeding is great and all and I defiantly recommend to all new mommy's, it's great to give your baby all the immunities from it, however breast milk disappointed me last week: he got sick. Mr. Jaiden felt ill during the last game of the Laker/Celtic 2010 match, poor guy was out of it. We got home from our almost daily outing and he felt warm and just not himself. I was shocked, I thought breast milk was a healing or a fountain of youth. Oh the shock and disappointment.
After my dramatic let down, I realized that Mr. Jaiden will get sick, every kid does, he would not be a kid if he didn't right? So just to be on the safe side. I made an appointment with the doctor that Friday and went in, she checked him, stating that he had a virus and the fever should go away by Monday. Fortunately, it must have been a 24 hour fever, Saturday morning came around and he was perfectly fine, playing, putting things in his mouth and being my little monkey that he his :-) ahhh the new adventure of parenting.
Gotta give props to Mr. Husband, he took care of baby while I was weak with sadness for the little one, yea I am no super Mom, but thank god I have a Super Dad - Happy Father's Day!!!!
Great my breastfeeding days are slowly coming to an end, actually I decided just recently that it is best that I stop, not only because he gets so distracted while eating but because in the last couple of days, he started biting..owwww...sorry about the TMI, but seriously, it hurts. Mr. Husband keeps cheering him on. Let's see if he gets a nice Father's day gift this year.
Anyway, breastfeeding is great and all and I defiantly recommend to all new mommy's, it's great to give your baby all the immunities from it, however breast milk disappointed me last week: he got sick. Mr. Jaiden felt ill during the last game of the Laker/Celtic 2010 match, poor guy was out of it. We got home from our almost daily outing and he felt warm and just not himself. I was shocked, I thought breast milk was a healing or a fountain of youth. Oh the shock and disappointment.
After my dramatic let down, I realized that Mr. Jaiden will get sick, every kid does, he would not be a kid if he didn't right? So just to be on the safe side. I made an appointment with the doctor that Friday and went in, she checked him, stating that he had a virus and the fever should go away by Monday. Fortunately, it must have been a 24 hour fever, Saturday morning came around and he was perfectly fine, playing, putting things in his mouth and being my little monkey that he his :-) ahhh the new adventure of parenting.
Gotta give props to Mr. Husband, he took care of baby while I was weak with sadness for the little one, yea I am no super Mom, but thank god I have a Super Dad - Happy Father's Day!!!!
Monday, May 10, 2010
It's been a long time...
since I have written on my blog, life is so busy with my little guy, lots of fun. He turned six months on April 17. He is becoming so active and very alert everyday, he started eating rice cereal at five months but we replaced that with oatmeal, because he was poop backed up, poor guy. Now he is eating carrots, peas and sweet potatoes. I think he just enjoys eating everything that goes in his mouth, don't want a picky eater :-)
He started rolling over at around five months, and loves it. Once you put him down on on the floor on his back, within seconds he rolls over, silly boy. I started a "Babies Loves Music," class here in Chino Hills California that we go to every Thursday, the little guy slept through one class but enjoyed the rest, he likes to hear things rattle, he loves the maracas. Gosh, time really flies when you are having fun. I enjoy him everyday, even though I am still sleep deprived :-( but that okay he sleeps 6 hours through the night, then gets up for about an hour and will fall asleep again. I can't believe that in seven more days he will be Seven months, and the Doc stated that he should be able to start sitting up by himself at that time, even though I think he is slowly doing it now.
He started rolling over at around five months, and loves it. Once you put him down on on the floor on his back, within seconds he rolls over, silly boy. I started a "Babies Loves Music," class here in Chino Hills California that we go to every Thursday, the little guy slept through one class but enjoyed the rest, he likes to hear things rattle, he loves the maracas. Gosh, time really flies when you are having fun. I enjoy him everyday, even though I am still sleep deprived :-( but that okay he sleeps 6 hours through the night, then gets up for about an hour and will fall asleep again. I can't believe that in seven more days he will be Seven months, and the Doc stated that he should be able to start sitting up by himself at that time, even though I think he is slowly doing it now.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
My Labor Story...(part 1)
I just realized that I did not write about my labor day story. Here goes..
It all started Thursday (10/15/09) at around 3pm ish. I had a Doctor's appointment, my weekly check up. Hubby and I went in to see the Doctor, the doc checked my cervix and the first response was from her is, have you felt any contractions outside of my normal Braxton Hick contractions, I told her no, why? she stated that I was 80% effaced/soft and 3 cm dilated - (Whoa). I didn't realize I was that far ahead of the game. I felt normal, being on bed rest normal that is. She told me that I was getting close and she would not be surprised if I went into labor within the next week or so. At this point, I was telling her how scared I was about the whole labor experience. She said just left the day flow, it's just one day right?
With that in mind, I went home, went back into my normal routine, resting on the couch playing the waiting game, that night I felt different however, I started to feel the contractions coming a little faster than normal, I just didn't feel right. My husband stayed awake all night just in case anything happens (water breaking or anything). The next morning (10/16/09) at around 7am ish, I had the same feeling of uneasiness and discomfort, my contractions were now 20 minutes apart but I figured they were still those not so friendly Braxton Hicks. My hubby and I did not want to take a chance and felt that I needed to go the hospital just in case and if anything else, they will tell me to go home and come back later, that was what I was expected. At 8am that same morning, we got to the hospital, the nurse checked me out and wanted to see where exactly I was in the labor process, as soon as she checked my cervix, she happily told me that looks like you are going to have this baby today, (whoa again). BTW: she remembered me from my pre-term labor, back in July.
As soon as she mentioned to me that I was about to have this baby today, my heart jumped a beat, I got scared, I was already nervous about Labor, but this just reassured that I was going to be in pain (the pain every women in labor feels) - I was so scared that when they took my blood pressure it was super high. After a while my hubby calmed me down and explained to me that don't stress, the baby will feel you stress out. After immediatly calming, I asked the nurse for an EPIDURAL PLEASE :-) (labor story to cont next time/post....)
It all started Thursday (10/15/09) at around 3pm ish. I had a Doctor's appointment, my weekly check up. Hubby and I went in to see the Doctor, the doc checked my cervix and the first response was from her is, have you felt any contractions outside of my normal Braxton Hick contractions, I told her no, why? she stated that I was 80% effaced/soft and 3 cm dilated - (Whoa). I didn't realize I was that far ahead of the game. I felt normal, being on bed rest normal that is. She told me that I was getting close and she would not be surprised if I went into labor within the next week or so. At this point, I was telling her how scared I was about the whole labor experience. She said just left the day flow, it's just one day right?
With that in mind, I went home, went back into my normal routine, resting on the couch playing the waiting game, that night I felt different however, I started to feel the contractions coming a little faster than normal, I just didn't feel right. My husband stayed awake all night just in case anything happens (water breaking or anything). The next morning (10/16/09) at around 7am ish, I had the same feeling of uneasiness and discomfort, my contractions were now 20 minutes apart but I figured they were still those not so friendly Braxton Hicks. My hubby and I did not want to take a chance and felt that I needed to go the hospital just in case and if anything else, they will tell me to go home and come back later, that was what I was expected. At 8am that same morning, we got to the hospital, the nurse checked me out and wanted to see where exactly I was in the labor process, as soon as she checked my cervix, she happily told me that looks like you are going to have this baby today, (whoa again). BTW: she remembered me from my pre-term labor, back in July.
As soon as she mentioned to me that I was about to have this baby today, my heart jumped a beat, I got scared, I was already nervous about Labor, but this just reassured that I was going to be in pain (the pain every women in labor feels) - I was so scared that when they took my blood pressure it was super high. After a while my hubby calmed me down and explained to me that don't stress, the baby will feel you stress out. After immediatly calming, I asked the nurse for an EPIDURAL PLEASE :-) (labor story to cont next time/post....)
Breastfeeding and the joys of...
Jaiden is now 2 months and 3 weeks old and he is exclusively been breastfed, he is gaining weight just fine at least that's what the Doctor has told me. But my question is how come no one told me that breastfeeding is not fun. Don't get me wrong, but I enjoy spending mommy-son time with him, but someone forgot to mention that breastfeeding is OUCH!!!
The latch is good, I know he is taking in the milk, his mouth is always white after each feeding and he's always spitting up a little bit of milk probably from each feeding, since my family thinks I over feed him. My biggest complain is clogged milk ducts, they are painful, if for some reason I miss a feeding or he sleeps more than 3 hours and I do not pump past the 3 hour mark, one of the milk ducts on either side of my breast will guarantee get clogged and man o man does it hurt. The first time I had it, I was so scared it was a cancerous lump, I called the lactation specialist, they reassured me that it was not and that I need to get rid of it before it becomes worse. My question for the lactation specialist was, "how in the world do you get rid of these so called ouch lumps," she quoted, "just let him keep feeding on the side of the lump for as long as you can or you can pump until it goes away. Oh joy, did that work. As soon as it was feeding time, I made sure my little man got on the side of the clogged duct and sure enough he got rid of it. So the moral of the story is when in doubt - ask and make sure you don't get clogged milk ducts.
The latch is good, I know he is taking in the milk, his mouth is always white after each feeding and he's always spitting up a little bit of milk probably from each feeding, since my family thinks I over feed him. My biggest complain is clogged milk ducts, they are painful, if for some reason I miss a feeding or he sleeps more than 3 hours and I do not pump past the 3 hour mark, one of the milk ducts on either side of my breast will guarantee get clogged and man o man does it hurt. The first time I had it, I was so scared it was a cancerous lump, I called the lactation specialist, they reassured me that it was not and that I need to get rid of it before it becomes worse. My question for the lactation specialist was, "how in the world do you get rid of these so called ouch lumps," she quoted, "just let him keep feeding on the side of the lump for as long as you can or you can pump until it goes away. Oh joy, did that work. As soon as it was feeding time, I made sure my little man got on the side of the clogged duct and sure enough he got rid of it. So the moral of the story is when in doubt - ask and make sure you don't get clogged milk ducts.
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