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Hot-Kid Baby Mum-Mum Banana Flavor Rice Biscuit | CorporetteMomsI’ll admit it: we relied heavily on the Mum Mum when my first son was little. In fact, we bought them in bulk and kept packets in both of our strollers, in the diaper bag, in my regular bag… heck, anywhere. They’re portable, not too messy, pretty tough to choke on, and my goodness do babies love these things — it buys you 15-20 minutes of peaceful eating at the table. Now that we’re at the Mum Mum stage with my second son, I’m so happy to be back. We always got banana in bulk ($16.74 for a pack of 6), but that’s us. Hot-Kid Baby Mum-Mum Banana Flavor Rice Biscuit

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  1. CHJ says

    Does anyone have a recommendation for a travel car seat? We have the Chicco NextFit for our regular car seat, but we are thinking about getting a lighter, smaller car seat to take when we fly somewhere for vacation or family visits. Does anyone have something like this that they like? (DS is 18 months old, so still rear facing but not in an infant seat anymore).

    • Meg Murry says

      We have Cosco Scenara as a cheap, light seat for 2nd cars (like grandmas). You can get them for under $50 at places like Walmart and Kmart. It is relatively lightweight, and not too terrible to install with latch if the hooks for latch aren’t buried too deep in the seat of the car – but they are terrible to get un-installed without ripping off at least 1 fingernail.

      When we were at BRU looking at a booster seat, another parent recommended Evenflo seats with SureLatch as much easier to install/uninstall, but the ones they had in store were a little heavier/more expensive than what we were looking for.

      We wound up with Evenflo Maestro because it has a wide path in the back that is easy to get your arm through to install with seatbelt instead of latch, and it was fairly lightweight (and cheap-ish, $75-$90?) but itss forward facing only.

      It seems like easy to install and lightweight should go together, but I haven’t seen it – seats with easy to install features seem to be built like tanks, from what I’ve seen – but I haven’t been looking at the higher price points either.

    • KJ says

      Can I ask how you like the Nextfit? We have the Keyfit and need to move up to a convertible soon.

      • CHJ says

        I like the NextFit a lot. My favorite thing about it is how easy it is to install. It’s like a rock with the LATCH system in place – doesn’t budge at all. It also reclines more than most convertible car seats, so DS naps very comfortably in it without his head bobbing around. (My parents have a back-up car seat for him and it is very upright, so his chin falls down to his chest if he falls asleep and he gets very uncomfortable and grouchy.) It’s very nicely made, too – the fabric is nice and all the buckles and straps feel high-quality.

        I have some complaints, too, though. The biggest one is that there’s no way to set the straps and buckles to the side when putting him in, so you have to dig around and wrestle a bit to get him buckled in. One of my friends has a Britax that is very open and it’s much easier to get a toddler in and out. The straps can also be tough to tighten, but they’ve gotten easier over time. I also read to leave the chest strap unbuckled while tightening the straps and then buckle the chest strap last, and that had made a big difference.

        All in, I would recommend it if you frequently take trips of more than 30 minutes or so, or if your baby still likes to sleep in the carseat. If your baby seems like s/he would prefer to sit up and look around (at the expense of sleeping comfort), I’d look at the Britax Marathon.

      • Katarina says

        I really like my NextFit. I also found it okay to travel with. Although it is very heavy, it is very easy to install with latch.

  2. Stephanie says

    We just got a box of Baby Mum-Mums in our bluum box yesterday – after the melamine scare, I’m not sure if I feel comfortable feeding the baby something that is made in China and may contain traces of milk. I guess I’m being too paranoid?

  3. New DC Mom says

    Any recommendations for Mom groups in DC?
    I’ve heard about PACE, but I don’t really understand how it works. You pay for the workshops?
    I’m in the Columbia Heights/Petworth area.

    • noob says

      I’d recommend PACE, it was a great experience for me.

      Basically PACE organizes 6-7 meetups for 8-12 new moms in the same geographic area — everyone in my group was in NoVa. The meetings have general topics for discussion , e.g., feeding and caring for baby, changes in relationships. Two social workers, who also have gone through PACE, lead the meetings.

      Yes, you do have to pay for it, but it’s well worth it in my opinion, because it takes the burden of planning off of anyone in the group. Also, it’s a closed group, so you do bond with the other women there and for me was a safer space to discuss the negatives that went along with being a new mom.

      It took me/us a while to bond as a group — but we did by the end of the 6-7 weeks. It hasn’t been very long, but we’re still in regular contact. It’s been great having a group of fiends who are all in the same stage of baby-hood, since 3-4 months can make a BIG difference in the early years. My friend who told me about it still meets up with her PACE group several years later.

    • BKDC says

      Hi there,

      Isn’t there a Petworth Kids listserve? If so, maybe try to recruit from that list?

      • New DC Mom says

        Thanks! I haven’t heard of that listserv, sounds perfect! Would you happen to have a link?

        • BKDC says

          I don’t (I live over by Eckington), but I think you might be able to find it through a yahoo group search.
          Good luck!

  4. Noelle says

    Any advice on how much to feed a baby who recently turned one? I’m struggling with how much to pack to send her to daycare. Today I sent her with one hard-boiled egg, about 4 oz of a pasta/broccoli concoction, about 4 oz of cut up fruit, 5 oz of formula, and 5 oz of cow’s milk (the plan is to transition her to 100% cow’s milk over a few days). Too much? Not enough? She had some yogurt in the morning, and she’ll have something for dinner. She’s got a healthy appetite, so I don’t want her to get hangry. I’ve looked online but can only find calorie estimates (e.g., “a 12-month-old should have about 1,000 calories a day”), which I don’t find all that helpful. And our 12-month appt with our pediatrician isn’t until Saturday, so I’m looking for some practical advice to carry me through the next several days. Thanks in advance!

    • POSITA says

      My daughter likes to sample at least 2-3 different things for snacks and lunch, though they can be repeated throughout the day. So I’d count the pasta dish as lunch, and then send 5 of or so things as snacks and sides selected from: fruit, raisins, yogurt, hard boiled egg, applesauce, steamed veggies, cheese, and goldfish/crackers/toast. It’s lots of little servings, but she eats better if she gets to sample. If she’s eating breakfast there, I’d probably also add a muffin, bagel, scrambled egg, or waffle as another main dish.

      Some days she eats a ton and others she eats very little, but she does love variety.

    • rakma says

      Sounds about right to me. She might not eat it all, but I don’t think you sent way too much food or anything.

      Here’s what my 15 month old ate yesterday: Yogurt with blueberries and oatmeal, (about 3oz total) chicken stars and carrot ‘soup’ ~4oz, a bag of freeze dried apple crisps, a pouch of fruit and veggie mix, a handful of cheerios, half a grilled cheese sandwich, plus milk.

      If your worried about not sending enough, could you send some snacks or smaller portions that could be saved for the next few days if she doesn’t show interest? DD will sometimes surprise us and eat a whole extra meal one day, but go back to her regular schedule the next day.

    • Ciao, pues says

      I totally rely on my daycare provider to tell me if I’m sending too much or too little. Our 13mo old is in daycare from 8-5 and I she eats about 3-4oz of food at each breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack, plus 10 oz of cow’s milk. Roughly, her diet day looks like this:

      >Breakfast is usually about 3oz oatmeal and applesauce mix, and a fruit or veggie (today she’ll have a half banana, yesterday she had about a quarter of an avocado), and she drinks 2-3 oz of milk from a cup with breakfast.
      >Lunch is usually about 2oz of a protein, and a fruit, veggie, and/or cheese (today I sent about 3oz of a lentil dish, about 1oz sliced applies, 1oz sliced oranges, 1oz sliced cheese, but she probably wont eat all of it), plus 2-3 oz milk.
      >Snack is 2 oz of a yogurt/spinach smoothie, and a fruit or veggie (today she’ll have the other half of her banana and whatever apples/ oranges/cheese she didn’t eat at lunch), and some crackers. Around this time she’ll also drink the rest of her milk from a bottle.

      She eats dinner at home after daycare and eats about the same portion– maybe 3-4oz of food plus milk in a cup. She has a 5 oz. bottle before bed.

      She’ll eat more if we’re spoon-feeding her something, but we’re trying to let her feed herself as much as possible. Hope that’s helpful. I scoured the internet looking for sample menus and never found anything useful, so I’m following this thread!

    • anne-on says

      Does you daycare allow you to send in snacks that they’ll store for you? In addition to the lunch we pack my toddler has a snack cabinet (that we supply) that they’ll supplement from if he’s extra hungry (or extra picky that day). We usually keep applesauce cups, freeze dried fruit, crackers, and/or cereal there so they can give him more food if he needs/wants it. Its also nice if we’re running late for a pick up and he’s starving at night before dinner. They also try really hard not to over-serve snacks so that’s something to keep in mind with your provider.

    • NewMomAnon says

      If you are also including breakfast, I would add another protein and maybe a carb. My kiddo is a hearty eater, and what you listed (without the formula/milk) is about one meal and change for her on a normal day but not even one meal on a big eating day.

      I would over-pack for a week and ask daycare to send home anything that doesn’t get eaten, so you can get an idea of how much she eats. Can you send several puree pouches/jars so they have extra to feed her if she is still hungry? Last night my kiddo ate more than me at dinner, and then sat on the floor and wailed when I tried to change her into pjs – she polished off another peanut butter sandwich and 4 oz of puree before she was finally done. Totally random, never can tell when they are going to need extra food.

      • Noelle says

        Thanks for all the input, ladies. I forgot that she also gets oatmeal at daycare, so that’s some added nutrition. But I can definitely give daycare some shelf-stable snacks, and I appreciate all the ideas about (easy!) things I can provde to round out her diet. It sounds like to some extent, this will be trial and error, and daycare said as much to me when I dropped her off this morning. First-time mom here, just trying not to starve my child! :)

    • Nonny says

      I pack my 14-month-old’s lunch and snacks using Rubbermaid Lunch Blox (link to follow). I use three half-cup containers, two quarter-cup containers, and one 1.2 cup container. I also send two 6-oz bottles of a combination of formula and milk (we’re working our way towards milk only).

      I typically send:
      – in the 1.2 cup container, a whole banana (cut up) or a whole avocado (cut up)
      – in the three half-cup containers: one carb, one vegetable, one protein
      – in the two quarter-cup containers: one cheese (she LOVES cheese) and one fruit

      My daughter typically eats everything, though occasionally something will come back only partially eaten.

      This system works really well for me because it’s more or less paint-by-numbers and really easy for me to take care of each night with minimal thought!

      • NewMomAnon says

        I love this, thanks for sharing. I will borrow this idea once we start sending our own food. I currently do dinner as some combination of 1 protein, 1 veggie, 1 more fruit or veggie, 1 whole grain and it makes pantry set up and meal planning so slick. I was also ogling the lunchblox at Targ-ay over the weekend for myself; it’s kind of like a little bento box and seems so much more exciting than the random yogurt containers/mismatched tupperware I currently use.

        Does anyone know if they make something like without plastics? I am starting to become paranoid about plastics and would like to switch to metal, crockery or glass for food storage/reheating.

        • Ciao, pues says

          We love glass mason jars in our house. The short, wide mouth ones are great sizes for kids lunch components. For larger amounts of leftovers we use GlassLock containers which we got in a set at Costco for a really good price. The lids are plastic, but we just don’t put those in the microwave or dishwasher.

        • PinkKeyboard says

          Planet box is a metal box with different compartments but I don’t think it is watertight (so no putting yogurt or applesauce in a compartment unless you keep totally flat).

    • anonymama says

      It really can vary a ton depending on the kid and the day. Can you just go by what you would feed her in a normal weekend day, then throw in a little extra just in case?

    • Momata says

      My daughter is 14 months old. For breakfast, I send a hard boiled egg and 2-4 oz cut up fruit, and daycare also gives her puffs. For lunch, I send a meat (one hot dog, two chicken nuggets, 4oz pasta with meat sauce, or 2oz of our dinner leftovers), 2 oz vegetables, and 2-4 oz more cut up fruit. I send a second vegetable serving as a snack, and daycare also adds in puffs, bananas, strawberries, goldfish, crackers, etc. I feel like she gets her carb servings from snacks. She also drinks about 12 oz of milk. Daycare says this is the right amount for her. I use the OXO Tot Baby Blocks and pack them all on Sunday. For dinner she has another meat (whatever we are eating, or broiled fish if she eats before we do), half an avocado, and some more fruit.

  5. NewMomAnon says

    Ok, so this is a TMI post – almost two months after doing sleep training, my 12-month old kiddo is still sleeping a solid 11 hours most nights. However, she is waking up earlier and earlier with poopy diapers, and gets really, really sad about it. So she has to be changed, and she won’t go back to sleep after being changed. She went from consistently sleeping until 7 am to waking up some mornings by 5:30 and rarely makes it past 6:15. It means that my lovely morning routine of showering by myself and getting things packed up is out the window, because I can’t predict when she’ll wake up anymore and I can’t force myself into the shower by 5:30.

    Any suggestions? She is eating like a horse right now and may be going through a growth spurt, so maybe things will settle down once she’s done with that?

    • BKDC says

      Mine is younger, and lately seems to want to party at 4-5am. I find that bringing him into bed with me at that time is the only way to get an extra little bit of sleep. I’m sure that is just trading one problem in for another, but it’s the only way I can ensure that he and I get a little bit more sleep.

      That sounds rough. I can understand not wanting to get ready for the day at 5:30.

      • NewMomAnon says

        Mine will only chill out in bed if I’m nursing her, so even that isn’t a great way to get more sleep. Oh well, I’m sure by the time I figure it out, she’ll have changed her schedule yet again.

    • Nonny says

      My 14-month-old has never slept past 6:30. Sometimes she wakes up at 5:15 but more frequently it’s sometime between 5:30 and 5:45. I’ve heard they start sleeping longer once they cut the morning nap – ?

      No suggestions other than taking your shower at night. I’ve resigned myself to not having any morning time to myself until perhaps later this year….

      • Ciao, pues says

        Ditto. If our 13 month old sleeps until 6:30, that is “late” in our house. Typically she wakes at 5:30 and is awake until her nap around 10.

    • Anon says

      It’s terrible that she’s sad about her diaper when she wakes up. It sounds like neither of you are happy about this. Maybe try pushing dinner later? If she’s not a super messy eater you could bathe her, change her into jammies and then have dinner. Do a quick hand/face wipe and a shorter bedtime routine? It may not work (12 m olds don’t like their routines messed with) but it might buy you and her another half hour-45 minutes.

  6. CPA Lady says

    Oh man, I saw the title “mum mum” and thought it was going to be about these little spoon things I recently saw on amazon– the num num dips. Have any of y’all used those? Its a sort of training spoon, where the spoon holds the food on with surface tension. I think I’m going to order some in about a month and see how it goes.

    • noob says

      Those are awesome! My little one keeps grabbing the spoon and trying to feed herself. These seem like a good alternative to the spoons we’re using now.

  7. JMDS says

    Yup, my kid choked on one of these. He literally shoved the entire thing in his mouth when I turned my back for a second, and I had to use a finger to scrape it all from clogging the back of his throat. He is one of those kids who loves food, but doesn’t get that you can’t actually just shove everything we give you in at once.

  8. BKDC says

    Speaking of food…my son is 5.5 months old. He had a rough day at daycare yesterday and his providers seem to think that the 16oz of breast milk I send with him isn’t enough. They want him on formula and cereal. I think his rough day was probably due to teething and not hunger as he often only has 12 oz while there (Frankly, I think they are of the mindset that breastfed babies must be starving all the time. He’s been growing just fine and has plenty of wet/dirty This morning, I sent him with 16oz of breast milk and 6 oz of formula (this would be the first day he tries formula and I asked they they try to start with that bottle to see how it goes. At least that way any unused breast milk bottles can be used tomorrow). But I have started thiinking about solids. He isn’t quite sitting up unassisted and I’m reluctant to use cereal. I’d rather start with some smashed banana to see how he likes it.

    My question is, how did you handle the transition to solids when sending your child to day care 5 days a week?

    • PEN says

      We started solids at 6 months–we didn’t do cereal, more of a baby-led weaning thing. At that point we just did dinner at home, then dinner and breakfast at around 7 months and then around 8 months started sending him lunch to day care. He has always had 2 6-7 oz bottles of pumped breast milk (one bottle at 10, second bottle at 1:30ish). This works for him—99% height and 80% weight at 10 months.

      • Burgher says

        This is very similar to what we did. Baby was just not very into food when we started, so didn’t really eat much until he was 7-8 months old. We mostly fed him at home until 9 months-ish when we started sending pouches and snacks to daycare.

    • Spirograph says

      We did a little cereal mixed in with breastmilk at first just to introduce texture but we introduced new foods mainly at dinner. Once my son had eaten the new food with us a few times, we’d ask the nanny to feed him one jar of carrots or whatever during the day. I think you could do the same with daycare… And as a bonus, if you are providing the food, they probably won’t go rogue and just start introducing whatever foods they like all willy-nilly without telling you (the way my ex-nanny did).

      I’d ask your pediatrician about solids and when and what to introduce first. Ours was super helpful and gave lots of good guidance.

    • Just Karen says

      I am subscribing to this thread to see what others have to say – my daughter is 5 months, but was a premie, so her adjusted age is 3.5 months. I was surprised at her 4 month visit when her pediatrician recommended we go ahead and start rice cereal… She can sit up with help, but it will be a while before she can do so unassisted – my takeaway on that part of the benchmark was that if you could strap them into the high chair without them being slumped over, they’re sitting up enough. Our daughter has been drooling a ton, which our doctor said was a sign she had the ability to digest more solid food…and that the cereal could help with her reflux. I am a little sceptical still, so a month later we’re just now doing rice cereal once a day every day… But I would love feedback as to how much to give her! She is super interested in our food, and does ok with the cereal, but I know her primary nutrition should still be coming from liquids, so I don’t want to overdo the cereal… Now that I’ve typed all this rambling out, I should just ask if anyone has found any good resources for guidance on these things.

    • Anonymous says

      The same thing happened with my daycare. They were always asking me to send more milk (which I didn’t have because I was pumping). I refused to send formula based on my own personal reasons, and frankly, I didn’t believe that it was hunger that was causing the problems. She had 15-16 oz of milk for a 7.5 hour day and I felt that was more than enough.

      As for starting foods, I think some mashed up banana or something similar at 5.5 months is fine. It can sometimes take them a bit to figure out what to do with the food and the first few week, I found that not a whole lot goes down (they tend to move it around in their mouths and then spit it out). Its good practice, though.

    • Ciao, pues says

      This was not my experience but I have heard some frustration expressed over daycare providers not understanding that breastfed babies dont need as much volume-wise as formula fed babies and/or being quick to blame fussiness on hunger b/c it is easier that soothing whatever is actually bothering baby (teething, tired, bored, lonely, etc.). Don’t be bullied! The amount of milk you’re sending seems totally sufficient to me, and growth/ wet diapers all seem on track. If you don’t want to start solids for whatever reason or baby doesn’t seem ready, stick to your guns.

      As for solids, we started at 6 months with steel cut oats (pulverize the dry steel cut oats in a food processor, then cook on the stove as normal) thinned with breastmilk. Also, two working parents, so we usually started something new on a Saturday morning to make sure there was no reaction (and also for the fun of it!). I think after oatmeal we did smooshed avocado mixed with breastmilk, then banana. It’s a lot of fun.

      • BKDC says

        Thank you all for the advice and feedback. My son does not nap well, and when he, well, acts like a baby, the providers seem to think more food is the solution. I ended up just picking him up at lunch time today because he was fussy and miserable due to teething.

        I don’t mind supplementing with formula, because I can only pump so much. But, I’m getting a bit frustrated that the providers are assuming that he is just plain hangry. Don’t get me wrong, the boy can eat (he’s up a lot at night to eat), but there’s nothing much I can do about it except feed him when he’s hungry and comfort him when he’s feeling tired, etc. And I’m sure formula and cereal isn’t a magic bullet as I’ve seen the formula and solid-eating kids also in cranky moods.

        We’ll figure it out. Just feeling a bit frustrated! Thanks, all

        • RDC says

          Just a note re: cereal and breastmilk. Our DCP mentioned that when we start cereal, they are legally prohibited from pouring breastmilk over the cereal — since it’s a bodily fluid they can’t pour it from one container into another. The solution is to send the breastmilk in a bowl (maybe a jar with a lid?) and then they can add the cereal to that. Just thought I’d mention it since it sounds like your provider may not be super familiar with how to deal with breastmilk.

        • Jen says

          My baby was EBF and *i* was the one that thought she wasn’t eating enough! We started solids at 4 months at the suggestion of our ped- baby was sitting almost unassisted and acting really interested in food. She was in the 50% for weight and 95% for height at the time.

          Girl took to avocado like a champ. We did cereal, avocado and carrots for about 3 weeks in addition to her normal milk and it worked really well. She was full-on solids by 6 months (and started crawling at 6.5). Fwiw we made it to ~8 months BFing and 9 months of breast milk (pumped). Then we were done and baby had formula until 11mos wen we moved to cow milk/formula. She’s now 85% height and 85% weight, and started walking at ~10 months and is currently 16 months and chatty as can be., and has always slept well (except while teething).

  9. LLC says

    My kiddo has a dairy/soy allergy and we are coming closer to the 6 month mark where our doctor said I could try to reincorporate dairy and soy into my diet and see how things go (baby is exclusively breastfed right now). Has anyone had any experience with adding foods back into their diet in this situation? I would love for it to go well so that I could consider offering formula once a day, but I am scared! I know they make special formula for this allergy, but it undergoes a lot of processing and supposedly tastes less-than-great, so I don’t really want to use it.

    • anne-on says

      My son had a dairy allergy, and still cannot eat raw dairy, so I’d start introducing things to your diet the way they will at an allergist when they do food challenges. So, start with ‘baked dairy’ and ideally with only 1 type – so, muffins with butter but not milk, or pancakes with milk but not butter, baked at least at 350 degrees, with dairy (or soy) not being one of the first three ingredients. Introduce one new item one week at a time so you can easily pinpoint the problem/remove it if you have issues. Good luck! I was never able to integrate dairy into my diet while nursing, I tried once and promptly had the baby massively projectile vomit almost instantly after my next feeding.

  10. Tubby says

    Hi folks. Looking for some advice from you moms re: bathtubs. We’re planning on ttc this summer and are considering some home upgrades. Our current bathroom has a large stall shower but no bathtub. My husband says a tub is not important for infants/small kids. My thoughts are that it would be important. Any insight into the need for a tub or any other home improvements before baby?

    • KJ says

      I have no idea how I would bathe my kiddo in a shower. She hates to get water sprayed on her but loves the bath.

    • noob says

      We were in the middle of home renos when I got pregnant, so this was a consideration of ours. I definitely wanted a tub for the baby and for re-sale purposes. The tub, however, isn’t on the floor with our bedrooms, but in the basement. It’s not ideal, but our house had weird bathroom layouts. I’m assuming you only have one bathroom?

      I don’t know how you’d easily wash a bigger baby or small toddler without tub. Right now we use either a baby tub (Whale of a Tub) on the bathroom counter or I hand her to my husband when he’s in the shower (which requires two people). Once she’s too big for the baby tub, but too little for a shower, I’m not sure how’d I’d bath her solo without a tub.

      Also, if you’re in an older house (pre-1970s), I’d suggest getting any renos that involve tearing down walls done before you start TTC — you don’t want to be around lead dust from old paint when pregnant.

    • Anonyc says

      Hmm, I’m not sure how to wash kiddos (at least until they can shower themselves) without a tub. Certainly in the beginning you can use an infant tub in the kitchen sink, but pretty soon it’s full-tub time. I washed my kids in their infant tubs inside the bathtub until they were about 6 months old/sitting independently, and then (mostly because they couldn’t stand lying down and wanted to be up to see everything) switched to either a bath seat or nothing. By about a year it was full tub until they were able to shower themselves (5/6 years old, for mine).

      I’m interested to hear how your husband would propose cleaning children without a tub…

    • CHJ says

      You don’t need-need a tub, but not having one would be a pain. You could always use a kiddie pool or an inflatable tub in a shower stall if you had to, but setting it up, draining it, and putting it away would be a daily annoyance. If you have the choice, I strongly vote for a tub.

    • Katarina says

      I think you will want a tub for an older baby/toddler/preschooler (and for resale value).

    • Lyssa says

      We usually shower the little guy, and have been since he was tiny – he loves it (it’s one of those words that we have to spell around him, lest we deal with a tantrum if he realizes that it’s been mentioned and he’s not getting it). Now that he can stand, it’s easy, he just plays with some cups while we wash up. But before he could stand on his own, my husband would usually strip him down to a diaper and put him near the shower, then jump in and wash himself, then hold him and wash. This was definitely easier for him than mec (both because I have more to do for myself in the shower and because I’m not as strong/coordinated as he is when it comes to trying to hold and wash slippery baby). We do have a big shower, which will hold two people easily, so that probably makes some difference.

      • Tubby says

        Thanks everyone! Yeah we well def want to get this done-one full bath with no tub in a 1910 house! Yikes.

    • Anon says

      Meh. I know NYC kiddos who don’t have bathtubs in their apartments and they get pretty used to showering pretty darn quick. Mostly sink baths until they can sit up on their own and then shower time with a parent, with the water angled away from their faces.

      Literally nothing is “normal” to a baby until you’ve introduced and normalized it. If you introduce and normalize showering that’s what the baby will be okay with.

  11. Mary says

    I’ve found that plain rice cakes (broken into small pieces) are just as good as the Baby Mum Mums, and cheaper too. My daughter had no problems mashing them up even before her teeth started coming in. I also opted to give her multigrain Cheerios instead of buying expensive baby puffs.

    • Ciao, pues says

      I’m with you. To each her own but I am always surprised to see how many babies eat these expensive little snacks that are basically repackaged versions of the much cheaper adult options.

    • Maddie Ross says

      I personally found these Mum Mums totally gross. We got some as valentines from daycare and some in a Citrus Lane box when my daughter was little and she would not eat them. I tried them and definitely understood why. We similarly went the route of cheerios and also gave her graham crackers under supervision.

      • Nonny says

        I’m with you….I can’t stand them. I also just look at the ingredient list and cringe. The second ingredient is sugar and I can’t believe anything like that is a good option.

    • Lyssa says

      How early did you start with the Cheerios? I was initially nervous about giving them, and the Puffs seemed safer since they dissolved more easily. Of course, after that, he never really had much interest in Cheerios. (I call the Puffs “baby crack,” though – he was obsessed with them). I wonder if my worries were silly and I could start with just Cheerios for the next one.

      • Maddie Ross says

        I didn’t do any solids until after 6 months. Started with a few purees, which went nowhere fast, and then moved to things that could be gummed, including cheerios (so maybe more baby-led weaning-ish?). We definitely did puffs too, but I didn’t have any issue giving cheerios at the same time. I know it’s not always an apt comparison, but it was good enough for us as children, so I decided it was fine for my girl, too!

      • Nonny says

        Cheerios dissolve pretty quickly too. They were one of the very first “hard” foods we gave our daughter, I think around 8 months. As I recall, I was initially very nervous and I think it was my mom who gave her the first Cheerios – but it was all fine and they were a huge hit right from the start. My LO started with baby cereal at aaallmost 6 months and took to the concept of solid food very quickly, so by 8 months she really was ready for the Cheerios.

        We tried rice puffs early on too but they weren’t popular. I might try them again now, just as a snack option…

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