Baby led weaning: good eats

Since Meili has another 1.5 years left of breastfeeding (hopefully), where the next six months will still be mostly breastmilk, I'm not pressured to make her eat a lot. I've been offering her finger sized pieces of poached tender chicken that she gums off bits and swallows. She has gagged a few times and I've watched her  quite easily bring up the chicken if she has accidentally swallowed too big a piece. She's also had lamb, beef and pork in bite sized pieces usually at dinner (a departure from BLW as we feed them to her). She has lettuce offered to her every morning with chicken. And lunch is avocado and banana about a spoonful each which she adores. 

She's also had egg yolk two mornings in a row and loves them. 

Meili is six! (months)

My precious little peanut, mama can barely believe you are six months old! Time has flown by, and it's all a bit of a blur for me as days meld into weeks into months, and as I cope with illness and caring for you best as I can. I love you with all I have Meili Abigail.

Meili at six months is 28 inches long (99th percentile) and 15 lb 3 oz (32nd percentile). 

Accidental Peppermint Tea Ingestion - Breastmilk Decrease!

I ran out of mothers milk tea and thought I'd finish up the pepermint tea I got for nausea while pregnant. So I guzzled bout a liter through the night and the next day my milk production ground to a drip. Now I did not expect that. Google informed me that peppermint tea is drunk to dry up milk supply. Oh dear. Poor Meili is hungry. She's been wanting to nurse every one-two hours instead of 3-4 hours. Also, I had started sleeping on my tummy the past few days. That apparently puts pressure on the boobs and prevents them from filling up with milk. I'm now guzzling heaps of mothers milk tea and putting Meili on as often as she needs and for as long as she likes. Let's see how long it takes for my milk to come back. Here's a rare pic of Meili crying. :)

Breastfeeding side lying

I don't know what took me so long but I finally figured out how to feed Meili both boobs without having to change position! I did try much earlier on but the boob on the upper side seemed too far to reach Meili. Anyway, yay! No more having to move her to feed each boob. 

I feel like chicken tonight

Meili had a teaspoonful of poached chicken tonight. She opens her mouth when I say 'ahh'. She loves her new portable chair by Regalo. 

Meili's munchies

Meili gets impatient trying to suck the juice from the apple pieces in the mesh bag thingo. She gums it a bit but mostly tries to latch on to it which doesn't really work. 

She tasted a tiny bit of mashed poached chicken today at lunch. And at dinner she gobbled a teaspoonful of avocado. She loves that stuff. 

Aside from strawberries, honey and carrots and egg whites I'm not sure what other foods to avoid for now. Time to look it up!

Christening

Aunt Judie actually cured at meili's baptism. Grandma Lois had water from the Jordan river that pastor Barbara used to wash meili's head with. Meili's godparents aunt Colleen and uncle Ernie looked on proudly. 

Stroller joy! A new record.

Meili spent 45 minutes in her stroller today. This surpasses her previous record of 10 minutes at the end of which I had to put her in the Ktan and walk her and the stroller back home. What I did different was put the seat completely upright. She can sit upright now! She likes the view. 

Baby hawk Mei Tai with Mirror: Works great

Meili sleeps good in the mei tai on my back. I've been going on slow jogs in the park and she sleeps for most of them. I check on her with my Lille baby retractable mirror. Super convenient. 

More immunizations.

Again already??? This time daddy got to hold Meili while she was jabbed.