Thoughts about this??

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Thoughts about this??
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Tue, 03-27-2007 - 11:53am

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Registered: 03-03-2007
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 9:59am
I introduced solids at 4 months. I supplemented with formula by using 1 or 2 teaspoons of formula to mix with the infant rice cereal. We gradually added a vegetable or fruit at a time.
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Registered: 03-03-2007
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:03am

That's endangering the welfare of a child. First, you could very - very - easily drop the child. I don't care how strong his latch was.

And there's no way - NONE - that anyone, adult or infant, needs to be that close to your feces and urine. Would you force an adult to be that close to your wastes? Why force it on an infant?

There is a real self-absorption without reason that I see in many of your approaches.

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Registered: 03-03-2007
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:08am

Even out in public places, I have seen women wearing the Baby Bjorn with baby still inside, go in and use a public toilet. It is disgusting.

All it takes is the slightest bit of planning and forethought - if out and about, bring a darn stroller. If home, use a bouncer or like you said, the crib. A lot of these AP behaviors make me question the parent's motivation in having a child in the first place.

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Registered: 12-06-2004
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:28am

Yes, I have to wonder if parents that are that extreme in not putting their babies down have issues with their own childhood and upbringing.

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:30am
I always feed/ nursed on demand until they became one, then our scheduale began to change about food mom and rountine.
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Registered: 07-23-2003
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:32am

You don't find that extreme?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:44am

YK what, I didn't HAVE a crib or a bassinette when DD1 was a baby. But no matter what, it doesn't matter if they couldn't be "hurt" physically (though I disagree, they could cry hard enough to hurt themself IMO) what matters is that at the age of a newborn, they are used to feeling and hearing mom right next to them 24/7 and they may well feel very misplaced in the cold hard world that doesn't move and doesn't have a heartbeat. My DD did NOT like being put down by herself. I chose to RESPECT her wishes and carry her or wear her or hold her AS MUCH as I possibly could.

Fio

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Registered: 03-03-2007
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:46am

Did you have the Jolly Jumper? It went in the middle of the doorway. One of my kids would stay in that for a long time.

With that, you're not supposed to leave the kid alone to go to the bathroom or anything. But, your post reminded me of that great invention!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:47am

"ITA, which is why I said, in my previous post, <>."

Yeah. And I don't see anything NEGATIVE in nursing, for sure, and as for developmentally appropriate, I figure it is appropriate AS LONG AS the child is showing positive signs of weaning and gradually diminishing. If the child were just continuing on the same or was actually going up in the amount of nursing sessions and times spent at the breast (globally, over the course of months...not talking about the kid who nursed 4x yesterday and 6x today, because in a year it might be 2x yesterday and 1x today...), if the child was otherwise "normal" (ie no mental problems etc.) then I would be worried. But a child who is steadily going down in their nursing (remembering it CAN be a 2 steps forward, one step back kind of situation) I see nothing that is NOT developmentally appropriate.

Fio

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Registered: 07-23-2003
Thu, 04-19-2007 - 10:54am

No we never had one of those ;)

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