Surviving a New Baby

Having a baby isn’t a steep learning curve, it’s a death slide into the unknown. You think you’ve got it all sorted, then you bring your miniature person home and realise you know NOTHING. But through trial and error you start to figure out what works for your little one and, like a death slide, things even out. You feel like you know what you’re doing, start to enjoy it and even (secretly and smugly) wonder if you might actually be good at it. Then your baby grows into a new phase, everything changes, and you plummet into confusion again. We’re currently figuring out how to manage a mobile baby, but before I forget all the stuff I learned about keeping a baby-baby happy I want to share it here.

Adventures in Weaning: Recipe Ideas

Baby B is thoroughly enjoying his adventures in weaning and gobbles up everything we give him. He’ll happily be spoon fed but really enjoys getting his hands dirty and feeding himself. At the moment he’s experimenting with squeezing everything. Especially cherry tomatoes.

So the challenge for me is to keep finding, new , interesting and healthy things to give him. We tend to do a BLW lunch where B and I sit in the garden and eat the same, and dinner tends to be something mainly spoon fed from a stash of batch cooked meals in the freezer. Worried it was getting a bit samey, I asked around for recipe ideas and here is our collection.

Car Survival Kit

We must have some kind of masochistic tendency because we’ve just taken our energetic, car-hating 9 month old to the Lizard on holiday. That is literally as far as you can drive before you fall off the bottom of the country. And we did it on bank holiday weekend. Knowing it was going to be utterly horrific and he would get bored and shouty before we got the bottom of our road, I put together a car survival kit. It does rely on me being the back with him so won’t work for everyone but I hope these ideas help some stressed parents have a better journey with their small person.