Taking a baby to a funeral?

taking a baby to a funeral
Clara and Digit

Taking a baby to a funeral is apparently a topic of great contention on many online forums. Unfortunately, this week we had to make the decision of what side of the fence we stood on as my dad’s cousin Diane had passed away. I was quite close with her, so it seemed obvious that I was going to go along to the funeral and take Clara with me, but it wasn’t until I started to google what a baby should wear to a funeral that I realised that quite a few people online seem to frown upon a baby being present.

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Weaning – week 6

weaning week 6

This week we introduced kiwi to Clara as part of a kiwi-avocado combo, and she seemed to like it. I’ve heard that this can be a potential allergen but she didn’t have any symptoms after eating it so hopefully we are ok with this one. We will try it again soon just to make sure. We also gave Organix multigrain porridge a try for breakfast one morning, although Clara didn’t seem massively impressed with the texture or taste of this one so we will definitely need to keep trying it in order to try and get her used to it.

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Weaning – week 5

weaning week 5

Food this week consisted of three meals again for each day, and we also had our first attempt at finger food by giving Clara a mango stone to gnaw at for a little while. It was pretty slippery for her to keep in her hands so I have since purchased some wheatgerm that we can sprinkle on any other slippery foods in order to make them easier for her to hold, but in general she seemed to have fun with it! She did manage to break quite a large bit of fruit off from the stone at one point which scared us a bit as it could have been a choking hazard, so we called an end to it for the day, but I know that at some point we are going to have to learn to trust her to eat chunkier bits of food so hopefully the fear factor will ease off as time goes on!

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Weaning – week 4

weaning week 4

Food this week has been fun, and we have begun to introduce some common allergens to Clara’s diet to see how she gets on with them. She had baby rice and yoghurt with no sign of a reaction, but we introduced egg for the first time with more mixed success. On the plus side, Clara seemed to enjoy it, however, she threw up quite a bit afterwards so she may have an allergy – we will need to test this again at a later point. I read somewhere that yolks have a lower allergy risk than whites, so maybe next time we try egg we will just do the yolks and then reintroduce the whites again a bit later on.

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New Schedule

new schedule
Clara’s new schedule

This week we introduced a new schedule for Clara to try and reduce the number of milk feeds that she has and to help her sleep better at night as it was starting to get a bit ridiculous. I’ve been breastfeeding her on demand up until now but as she is so used to being fed whenever she cries, wakes or needs sleep, it has also resulted in her asking for food several times during the night as comfort more than anything and we are really starting to feel the strain from the broken sleep that we are getting each night.

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Weaning – week 3

weaning week 3
Our cheeky little sausage

Moving onto our third week of weaning and we upped it to both lunch and dinner each day this week as Clara had started to get the hang of mealtimes and we felt she could handle an extra session. We also had our first potential allergic reaction as she came out in some hives on her face soon after eating aubergine for the first time so I think we will avoid repeating that one again in the near future and maybe give it a couple of months before we give it another try.

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