So I haven’t done a baby update recently on here – Kaiden is now 10 months old!
Which is crazy to me. Where did the time go? He’s such a big boy. 10 months old, and full of beans. I guess a little update first.
We started introducing solids around 5 months old. He didn’t have any teeth yet, so while I was feeding him cereals, I wasn’t giving him anything that he needed to “chew”. Kaiden started getting teeth around 6 months, but not enough teeth for me to feel comfortable with eating crackers on his own. I wanted to still be in control of what and how he ate.
Fast forward a couple months, and we now have [almost] 7 teeth!
(One is currently popping through as I write this). He has a fairly equal amount on the top and the bottom, so I feel comfortable having him eat the rice husk crackers and things like Arrowroot cookies. Our solids are definitely more solid, he’s wanting to feed himself, even though I still feed the majority of his meal. I also hate when he makes a huge mess so I only give him food items that are almost mess-free.
We also are not nursing anymore. It wasn’t part of the original plan to not nurse for less than a year, but I had absolutely no choice in the matter. We woke up one morning, nursed like usual, but he refused to nurse for his naps. I was in a panic since he’s never shown any interest in the bottle and began freaking out about how I was going to feed him. Instantly, I began pumping like crazy which made me realize that I wasn’t producing enough. By that night he was bottle-feeding. I gave him a bottle because I knew he was hungry. Won’t lie, I was shocked that he just guzzled it down like he’d been doing it for months.
Babies. Always keeping us on our toes.
I went through a bit of “mommy guilt” about not nursing for a couple days. I felt a little rejected and I worried about soothing him since I thought that he got that from being nursed. But after I got over that initial feeling, I am LOVING the fact that I’m not nursing anymore. Not nursing means I can leave Kaiden with grandparents and not worry about his eating schedule. It means riding, tattoos, going out at night, and not worrying about where I have to stop to pull over and feed if I’m driving.
Not nursing means FREEDOM to me.
As for solid foods, I try to make as much from scratch as I can. I stuck to more the fruits and vegetables as they were easy to do in bulk. I pureed them, measured it out, and froze them in an ice cube tray. It makes it easy to portion it out. I use the premade packages for on the go. I find I do use the premade packs in order to make sure Kaiden gets enough protein since I don’t always have a protein that I could give him.
We’re starting to get to the point where he wants to feed himself, so I give him dry foods to eat with his fingers and anything messier I feed him myself. Soon enough, he’ll be using cutlery and I’ll be missing these days of messy eating.
It’s pretty exciting to see him grow up, but I can’t believe how fast time is just flying by. Much too quick for my liking!
J x
