Julie - Sorry to hear you got sick on your trip, but it sounds like you guys had a good time.
On throwing food from the high chair - Maya does this too, and it drives me nuts. I actually got upset with dh because he was making light of it. We sternly tell her no, that we do not throw food on the floor. After the third time, we take her tray away which is very stressful for me given her weight gain issues. I don't want to take away her food if I think I can get her to eat more, but at the same time, I think we ought to be setting ground rules now.
Christine - Maya cannot sleep with us either. Sometimes we try to bring her into our bed on the weekends to geta few extra minutes of snuggle time, but she just wants to stick her fingers up dh's nose and pull my hair.
Kate - I am going to check out your solids post.
Tarri - I got Maya started on pulling up by sitting her on a short stool so she didn't have as far to pull up. First she pulled up on me, then on her activity table.
Heather - Don't you hate that baby stuff (activity centers, tables, etc) are so lightweight that they can knock them down trying to pull up on them? We have some stuff like that, and it drives me nuts. Maya has a little music table she has pulled down on herself several times.
She has also been in the big tub since about 9mos, but inside an inflatable duck. Someone gave it to us, and I didn't think much of it at first, but Maya loves it. And dh said it makes bathing her easier as there is not as much danger of her slipping and hitting her head. I think her first real word is going to be duck.
And Hanes makes non-skid socks too. I've seen them at WalMart.
Deb - I think some people have already suggested this, but I would try to extend the 2nd A time a bit, esp if she sleeps 1.5hr in the AM. Maya goes down for her AM nap about 9:15-9:30am, sleeps about an hour, then goes down for her PM nap at 2pm. And we had the same experience as Christine - if she goes to bed at 8pm, she is up at 6am. If she goes down at 7:30pm, she is up around 7am. When I get 11.5 hours at night, naps aren't so good. When she sleeps only 10 hours at night, the naps are great the next day. I'm trying to decide which is more important to me. And we have next to no winddown now.
Flat head - Maya is showing some improvement, though it's hard to say whether any of it is due to the helmet or not, since she has rarely worn it due to all the fit issues.
Kate - I would try to extend the 2nd A time as well.
Joanne - We give Advil at night and Tylenol during the day as necessary. We have also tried Orajel while waiting for the painkillers to kick in. During the day, I try to distract her with teethers before giving her any medication.
Hazel - Maya recently bit a pacifier in two while teething. About 10min into her nap, she started screaming hysterically. Dh brought her out and I noticed something in her mouth. When I fished it out, it was the latex part of the pacifier! She swallowed a small piece of it, but luckily we got to her before she choked on the larger part. And Maya has pooed in the tub too, but sadly for dh, it was kind of "loose".
Jaime - Congrats on the weight loss.
Ahh, the nap is over... I'll be back.
