** This post is like my brain... halfway there and all over the place! **
I am not sure how this arrangement worked out the first time. Oh yes, I do! Bear was like 6 months old when we got Moe at 6 weeks old. It was simple back then. NOW, not so simple. I think it is just going to take some getting back into the swing of things before it is all "normal" again. I am working on someone else's watch here. When Moe left (5 months old) he was eating cereal and working on jarred baby foods. He loved eating and NOW it is an act of God to get him to open his mouth for a spoon or anything but a bottle. I am confused as to if something is wrong with his mouth or if they just simply did nothing other than give him a bottle. So now I am having to incorporate teaching him to "eat" food as well as getting Bear's meals ready and teaching him how to use his utensils. HO HUM! Oh yeah and I still have to eat, so I have been told!
I have been talking to a health coach and we are talking through my weight loss stuff... Come to find out I am "gaining" because I am NOT eating. Imagine that... if it can go backwards it will belong to me! I am not really gaining but I can't lose what I have. Apparently when you don't eat your body holds on to everything you DO eat and stores it as fat so that it does not fade, so to speak. I have tried talking this out with my body... I AM NOT GOING TO STARVE TO DEATH! It is not listening... I just don't feel hungry and when I do it is usually too late and then I still don't have time to eat. OH WHATEVER! uggghhhh. hahahhahaha... yep, losing it! my mind not weight! hahahaha.
So correct me if I am wrong... PLEASE! Can a 9 month old live off formula alone? And how often should they be given an 8 oz bottle? I mean it would be completely easier to just pop in a bottle and go but I think they need more than that don't they? I would like him to be eating real food by the time he is a year old. I am not going to formula feed past 1 year. I don't even like that he is so ademate about his bottle. He refuses to drink out of a sippie and/or anything but... You guessed it HIS BOTTLE!
We started Bear on a sippie at 6 months old and by 8 months he was completely off the bottle and of course at 1 year he was completely eating food and drinking whole milk. I know he is not the rule but it is something that I know children CAN do if given the opportunity and guidance. I guess I sound really harsh but I am just trying to get him to strive instead of being okay with status quo. I think it is just that being a foster parent you want the agencies and CPS to see how good of a job the children can do in your care. You always strive to be better than just the norm. Well I do anyway. I have a fear that they will remove "our" children if we are not ahead of the game and then we will have nothing... well no children anyway. I think that is why I am so gung ho with teaching them and getting them to that next mile marker.
Honestly I think the agencies are okay if we don't have them playing in the street or petting the mice/rats that come through the gaping holes in the walls... But it is just an image in my head that all has to be better than it is. Wow... that hits home! I think I can hear my father's voice coming from my mouth! Scary! Maybe it is time to clean out that closet! "I don't have to be so strict or demanding of perfection!" repeat that with me, "I don't have to be so strict or demanding of perfection!" Okay God I have realized it, now if you would be so kind as to work on my heart in this area. Thank you Jesus!
Okay so welcome back seasoned teachers and come on in... I am needing a day 2 of 101... I promise one day soon it will be back to good and my house will not be run by the dog and the kitten chasing eachother around the Christmas tree and the snotty nosed babies crying because I can't hold them at the same time. BUT, until that day what's a mother to do?
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I could be wrong, but I think that babies are given food in the first year of life more as a practice thing rather than to fulfill nutritional needs.
When Josie came home to us she was 7 months old and the family she was with previously hadn't started her on baby food or any cereal. We started it about a week after she came. We also gave her a bottle a couple times a day until she was 1.
It is really important to start introducing baby food, but don't stress about it.
Our doctor told us to be sure we weren't giving her a bottle before we tried to give her food. They will just fill up on formula and won't be interested in food at all.
Don't worry though, he'll get it. Some babies just take a little longer.
Oh, and when you're ready to start taking him off formula, try mixing 1/4 of the bottle with Whole Milk and the rest formula and over the next week or two gradually make it more milk then formula. That way he can get used to the new taste.
weeelllll, you know, that lady i've talked to a few times...the one who told me her children never drank from a bottle or sippie but went straight to a big person cup at age two? the one who doesn't even introduce food at all until they have teeth to eat it? yeah that one...those are the things she said to me. if that were the case with AK then she wouldn't have had ANY food until 11 months of age and she'd still be attached to my body for her fluid intake.
....her kids are alive and well.
Maybe he is still needing extra comfort through all the transition in his life. His bottle may have been a real source of comfort previously and he is clinging to it after more change. My advice would be to just try little by little each day and as he is more comfortable, he might be more willing to try new things.
Also, my 2 kids were only allowed to have juice if they drank it out of a sippy cup. They liked their 4 oz of juice everyday and were willing to try a sippy if that's the only way I offered it. They only ever drank formula or breast milk from a bottle. I hope this helps a little. Good luck!
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