More LiveJournal shenanigans? :(

[cheyinka]

(What? I like the word shenanigans.)

Okay, well, I'd mostly left LJ, except there's a couple communities I still read and perhaps ten people who still use their journals... but it looks like they're going to make the friendslist unusable for me, so that won't even be an option :(

Could I implore those of you with Dreamwidth accounts to crosspost,

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[superquail]

I would love for you to keep reading my LJ! I find your comments extremely interesting and insightful. I will see about cross-posting on Dreamwidth, but I'm not sure how long it will take me to get around to that.

How is your baby doing? Has it really been 9 months? Babies grow so fast! It's like watching one of those sped-up films sometimes. One morning they can't really lift their head, and next thing you know they're crawling around like a boss.

[cheyinka]

I shall paste a conversation from earlier:
[MOO] dive> cutest baby ever
[MOO] Cheyan> me: *eats bread*
[MOO] Cheyan> baby: *stares*
[MOO] Cheyan> me: uh....
[MOO] Cheyan> baby: *STARES*
[MOO] Cheyan> me: oh fine *gives baby some bread*
[MOO] Cheyan> baby: yum yum yum

(I mean, he said "yum yum yum" and then took dainty little bites.)

Also, he crawls reaalllllly speedily now; he's getting faster every day.

[superquail]

Babies can eat bread at 9 months? Wow! I apparently know nothing about babies! Still, that's totes awesome!

[cheyinka]

We're doing baby-led solids, so he gets a minimum of purees (which, yes, ordinarily he'd still be eating). Mostly he gets cooked vegetables (or very, very ripe mango or pear), but we give him some soft meat on occasion. Today he was eyeing my bread covetously, so...
90% of his nutrition still comes from my milk, anyway.

The idea is that his ability to recognize when he needs to chew develops with his ability to grasp, so he can't grab things he could readily choke on, and since he's always associated food with bigger-than-bite-sized pieces, he knows to mash it with his (still completely unemerged) molars. Also, babies' gag reflex is much stronger and farther forward than adults', so if he starts trying to swallow something insufficiently mangled, he gags before it would hurt him. Sometimes this results in covering himself / the highchair / me with a milk-and-food slurry, but much less often than three months ago!