Baby diary: 6 months 2 days
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petroniaAlan's half-birthday! It feels like a milestone. Can't believe it's nearly the solstice, and my leave is half over. ^^;
The book says 26 weeks is a fussy period. Alan does seem to need more reassurance, even as he's becoming more physically able: both yesterday and today he had a sudden meltdown, not angry but frightened and inconsolable, like a panic attack. Yesterday was windy and cold in the stroller, but I don't know about today's. I managed to calm him down with a hot bath, and after that he fed and went to bed as normal.
I should write about food.
To be honest, I'm having to come to terms with myself -- I'm a clean plater and abhor food waste, so it stresses me out to let him smear food over his hands and clothes, and I feel quite rejected if he won't eat something I lovingly prepared for him. XD; But I can't get mad at Alan, so I displace my frustration onto struggling with the high-end Italian high chair the neighbours lent me. I have to keep reminding myself that he's actually eating very well for his age.
The book says 26 weeks is a fussy period. Alan does seem to need more reassurance, even as he's becoming more physically able: both yesterday and today he had a sudden meltdown, not angry but frightened and inconsolable, like a panic attack. Yesterday was windy and cold in the stroller, but I don't know about today's. I managed to calm him down with a hot bath, and after that he fed and went to bed as normal.
I should write about food.
- Baby oat cereal, moistened with readymade formula
- Banana, spoon mashed
- Blueberry, halved and squished
- Cultured coconut yogurt, which gave him acidophilus, so he didn't poop for two days and when he did it smelled like lactic acid. But it seems probiotics are good for babies -- even for eczema!
- Mung bean soup without the actual beans
- French toast, that one time
- Orange, mandarin, lemon (he really loves the scent of lemon so I gave him a lemon piece expecting BABY BETRAYAL but... he ate more of it than the orange.........)
- Various other fruits, scraped with a spoon, since he hardly eats enough to justify making a puree -- he's tried apple, pear, cherry, mango, watermelon, fig
- Braised carrot, likewise scraped with a spoon
- Cucumber stick
- Romaine lettuce in chiffonade strips
- Parsley leaf
- Eggs -- I've tried poached, hard boiled, fried, omelette
- My organic chicken congee, sadly, even though I myself find it delicious without salt or condiments
- Actually, he just doesn't like chicken
- That strained lamb thing I'm still traumatized by
- Peanut butter, even mixed into banana
To be honest, I'm having to come to terms with myself -- I'm a clean plater and abhor food waste, so it stresses me out to let him smear food over his hands and clothes, and I feel quite rejected if he won't eat something I lovingly prepared for him. XD; But I can't get mad at Alan, so I displace my frustration onto struggling with the high-end Italian high chair the neighbours lent me. I have to keep reminding myself that he's actually eating very well for his age.
