This weekend was great. Our friends C&A flew out from Alberta and we had lots of fun with them and P&G, our mutual good friends. On Friday night we just hung out and got caught up in life. Then on Saturday we went to the Yarrow Days Parade (fun, fun, fun) and the girls did a little shopping in the afternoon. We then met at our place, piled into one vehicle, dropped Elijah off at Nana's (where he spent the night) and headed to Granville Island to see "The Improvised Works of Bill Shakespeare," a Theatresports performance. It was good - not as good as I was hoping - but there were certainly funny parts. Prior to the show we had dinner at Sammy J Peppers and then after the show we went for dessert at White Spot in Langley. It was a great evening with friends. Then on Sunday we spent most of the day at Harrison, hiking and eating, and then Gerdi and I went to his brother's place for dinner to celebrate our nephew's 3rd birthday. Phew! What a busy weekend, but very enjoyable! Although I am glad that tomorrow will be routine as I'm exhausted!! It will definitely be a catch up day.
As for Elijah, he's now 8 months and I'm realizing that I will have to start weaning him due to the fact that I go back to work in 3 months. Unless things change, I figure I'll be fine with the morning and nighttime nurse even when I'm working, but I'll have to start giving him formula regularly during the day. How should I go about doing this? How many bottles will he need in a day if he is also eating solids. Right now he gets about two 'meals' a day (each one usually being rice cereal and a fruit or veggie). He also eats nibbly foods once-ish a day (maybe a rice cracker or puffed wheat bits). On a good day I nurse him 4 times in total (counting the morning and evening feed). On a 'needier' day he will nurse 6+ times. Due to the heat, I've also given him a bottle of very diluted fruit/veggie juice to keep him hydrated. I don't need to totally give up nursing during the day yet, but I would like some suggestions as I start the weaning process. A slow proces is fine with me as I'm not in a rush and still don't mind. If some of you could share your baby's feeding/eating schedule that would be appreciated. Thanks!
Sunday, June 3, 2007
What a weekend!
Posted by Sarah at 9:40 p.m.
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I see those toofers! What a handsome fellow he is! Mum
He is so handsome Sarah!
CUTE pictures :)
I can't remember when I cut Taeya back to 3 feedings a day. around 10 months, I know she was still at 4 feedings, and i switched the second feeing of the day first, then the third one (about 2-3 weeks apart, or so), so i was only nursing morning and night. i really don't remember when we switched her to 3 feedings a day, but it was easier when she was on the bottle, because we just increased how much she drank at each bottle.
anyway, i hope that helps a bit...
As much as he hates it, we need a photo of Abby's newest (??) career firefighter.
What a cutie! I can't believe he's 8 months already!
Keziah is nursing/taking a bottle 4x a day right now at (roughly) 7am, 11am, 3pm & 6:30pm. When I give her a bottle it's about 6-8 oz that she takes in.
I don't remember how things were with Micah. I fed him a lot more on demand and he was pretty much exclusively breastfed until 11 months. I just know by one year old he was eating so much other food that milk was kind of secondary(in fact we had to wean cold turkey and he refused to drink cow's milk for 3 days straight and I thought he was going to starve - obviously he didn't!)
With Keziah I've tried to keep her on more of a schedule (I know you're not big on schedules, but I'm liking the predictability this time around!). I'm also giving her solids 3x a day when we sit down for our regular meals.
Probably 2 good-sized bottles would be enough for Elijah during the daytime, and maybe by a year he could get by with only 1 since he'll be eating lots of solids by then.
Anyway, hope that helps. Are you looking forward to going back to work?
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