Baby is a boy. Mama is going to go pee on a stick to find out if she’s pregnant again.
As I read this my daughter, who began pulling up two weeks ago and cruising yesterday, is trying to grab the laptop away from me (I’m sitting on the sofa with the computer on my knees). I yearn for her immobile days. We aren’t up to crib-escaping yet, thank og.
Thanks, Eureka for clarifying for me! My daughter is not pregnant, so she could have the glass of wine. Don’t know yet how crying-out went, but she sent a picture of him passed out in a food coma in the high chair. And then my daughter-in-law sent a picture of Grandson#2, also 6 months old, sucking on a pickle. Apparently she’s been giving this baby solid food already…chunks of food, including steak!!! My daughter immediately called my son to read him the riot act, but he says his wife will not listen to him about anything to do with feeding the baby, so my daughter just sent them a book on making your own baby food. I had already sent them a small food processor, so it’s not like she doesn’t have the tools to puree things.
Sounds like she’s doing baby-led weaning, which advocates chunks of food rather than purée.
Though chunks of steak at six months is unusual. It’s more often foods that carry less of a choking risk and are more easily digested. Like bits of sweet potato, or peas.
Is it? I’ve known a couple of people who’ve done baby-led weaning recently, so seeing little 'uns grappling with chunks of food isn’t unusual to me, but I’ve not paid much attention to what those chunks are of. My own baby is just 7 weeks old, so we’re a way off deciding how we wean her. She did try to swipe a piece of toast off my plate the other day though, so may have ideas of her own!
I must admit it amuses me to imagine a baby gumming at a strip of steak though!
I did baby led weaning with my first, and it’s brilliant for teaching them hand-eye control, familiarity with different textures, developing a good gag reflex and giving them an understanding of their appetite.
For me it was also great I didn’t have to prepare her anything different to eat as she could just eat off our plates. This has given her a really wide range of foods she’ll eat - curry laksa, olives with stones, pickled beetroot etc all at 2.
Steak would have been OK (although I didn’t because I don’t eat meat), but as large strips which are generally just gummed on and sucked. At 6 months when we started I was giving her things like rice cakes, steamed broccoli/carrot, whole pears, toast, hummus and egg.
Oh, and was going to mention that she may have more luck with a controlled crying solution than crying it out. We had good success with settling techniques from books like Sleep Right Sleep Tight, which have you leave the room for increasing intervals, but you do return regularly to pat/shush the baby so they get just enough comfort to get off to sleep.
I’ve started self-settling #2 at 7 weeks this time (thanks for the recc, Dr Karp!), I got into a bad habit of rocking the first to sleep until about 5 months, and don’t intend to do that again!
Ambulatory curiosity incarnate.
Both the Nephew and Niece were meatchunkarian at first; their mother was confused because they’d assault the ham and refuse to take bananas or other fruits. The Nephew then went on to steak and salami, while his sister preferred chorizo and frankfurters. The Nephew wasn’t offered steak, he tried to steal it off Daddy’s plate.
The chunks have to be tiny… no, that’s too big, smaller, cut it in half…, but that’s all.
Omigod, so do I!
Seriously, this kid sounds more and more like me every minute.
A second child is the triumph of optimism over experience.
My son taught my daughter how to escape from the crib - sort of like a lifer inmate teaching the younger fish how to whittle a gun from a bar of soap. Fortunately all she did after escaping was follow him around trying to do whatever he was doing. Which made potty training an interesting experience.
Raising a toddler, or more than one of them - the worst thing you’ll ever miss.
Regards,
Shodan
Amen to that.
From the moment I felt him start to ‘flutter’ around 5 mos into my pregnancy, Slim has not slowed down ONE bit except when he’s asleep. 
For the longest time, he refused to walk…he would drag himself (army style) across the floor and we couldn’t figure out why. It was explained to us later, when he was diagnosed with sensory issues, that he probably liked the feel of dragging his stomach/legs across the floor.