A while ago I joined an internet group for parents with children who have been diagnosed with Failure to Thrive, and I've been getting back in to reading and responding to the messages.  Some of the mothers have school-age children, but most of the posts are from people with babies and toddlers.  It's unnerving to read post after post from mothers ( Read more... )

Well it's been quite a week and a half.  Isabel had a spring cold earlier this month, and with it came the usual disinclination to eat food and extra requests to nurse.  I felt so clever when I found out that nursing her in the middle of the night will keep her cough at bay long enough for the medicine to take effect.  Not even holding her ( Read more... )

Score! Yesterday I made baby biscuits for Isabel. She loves them! In fact, so far they seem to be successfully substituting for paper when she wants to chew. ( Here's the recipe )

Isabel is exhausting me.  Now that she is crawling, she has become an explorer.  She doesn't even notice her toys anymore except as obstacles on her way to new territory.  She greets everything with a curious index finger.  Her favourite finds are things that can be unpacked (yesterday she pulled all our magazines off their bookshelf and the ( Read more... )

Isabel's hair is growing in blonde, light light baby blonde. For a few weeks now I thought it wasn't growing at all, but the other day I was looking at it in the light and I realised that it has blonde roots. That explains it! From a distance, the centres of her hair swirls look like little bald spots ( Read more... )

Since the doctor made her offhand comment about night-time feedings, I have noticed that Isabel is consistently feeding to sleep. Gah! The only exception is if I am wearing her in a wrap, in which case she will fall asleep from being walked around. But normally if she is sleepy, she tells me she wants some food, then she just eats for a minute ( Read more... )