May 6th - Kyle continues to make great progress in his motor skills. He is now able to pull himself to stand from the floor to the couch. When he first started doing it he was transitioning from the activity table to the couch in the kneeling position, then pulling up to stand. A week later he was able to pull up to the couch directly from the floor. Also, when he first started doing it he was using his strength to extend his legs to stand. He is now able to properly stand up by bending one leg first then pull up with the other leg (what his PT wanted him to do). He is also able to pull up to stand from sitting. Kyle is now crawling everywhere on his elbows and knees. We cannot keep him on the matted area anymore! He's exploring the whole first floor. He has crawled to the kitchen a few times and I found him under the kitchen table yesterday and he's constantly crawling over to the other side of the living room near the sliding glass doors.
Kyle has been taking his milk a lot better the last week or so. He still occasionally refuses an offering but it usually doesn't last for more than 1-2 meals. The down side of drinking more milk is that he's not as interested in solids now because he's full on milk, and he usually takes the most for his dinner offering just before we sit down at the table for solids.
The feeding consultants had us shift his sleep schedule so he is up earlier in the morning and goes to bed earlier at night. They also wanted him to only take one longer nap during the day. It's been a good 3-4 weeks since we started and Kyle has been adjusting to the change pretty well - waking up on his own before 9 am and falling asleep right away when we put him to sleep at night at 9 pm. He sometimes wakes up an hour after falling asleep and stays awake for another hour before falling back to sleep though but I think he's slowly moving away from that as well.
We are still following Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding. It's really simple to follow, as long as we always remember to follow it!
Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding (http://ellynsatterinstitute.org/dor/divisionofresponsibilityinfeeding.php)
Children have natural ability with eating. They eat as much as they need, they grow in the way that is right for them, and they learn to eat the food their parents eat. Step-by-step, throughout their growing-up years, they build on their natural ability and become eating competent. Parents let them learn and grow with eating when they follow the Division of Responsibility in Feeding.
The Division of Responsibility for infants:
•The parent is responsible for what.
•The child is responsible for how much (and everything else).
Parents choose breast- or formula-feeding, and help the infant be calm and organized. Then they feed smoothly, paying attention to information coming from the baby about timing, tempo, frequency, and amounts.
The Division of Responsibility for babies making the transition to family food:
•The parent is still responsible for what,and is becoming responsible for when and where the child is fed.
•The child is still and always responsible for how much and whether to eat the foods offered by the parent.
Based on what the child can do, not on how old s/he is, parents guide the child’s transition from nipple feeding through semi-solids, then thick-and-lumpy food, to finger food at family meals.
The Division of Responsibility for toddlers through adolescents
•The parent is responsible for what, when, where.
•The child is responsible for how much and whether.
Fundamental to parents’ jobs is trusting children to determine how much and whether to eat from what parents provide. When parents do their jobs with feeding, children do their jobs with eating:
Parents’ feeding jobs:
•Choose and prepare the food.
•Provide regular meals and snacks.
•Make eating times pleasant.
•Step-by-step, show children by example how to behave at family mealtime.
•Be considerate of children’s lack of food experience without catering to likes and dislikes.
•Not let children have food or beverages (except for water) between meal and snack times.
•Let children grow up to get bodies that are right for them.
Children’s eating jobs:
•Children will eat.
•They will eat the amount they need.
•They will learn to eat the food their parents eat.
•They will grow predictably.
•They will learn to behave well at mealtime.
Kyle has been taking his milk a lot better the last week or so. He still occasionally refuses an offering but it usually doesn't last for more than 1-2 meals. The down side of drinking more milk is that he's not as interested in solids now because he's full on milk, and he usually takes the most for his dinner offering just before we sit down at the table for solids.
The feeding consultants had us shift his sleep schedule so he is up earlier in the morning and goes to bed earlier at night. They also wanted him to only take one longer nap during the day. It's been a good 3-4 weeks since we started and Kyle has been adjusting to the change pretty well - waking up on his own before 9 am and falling asleep right away when we put him to sleep at night at 9 pm. He sometimes wakes up an hour after falling asleep and stays awake for another hour before falling back to sleep though but I think he's slowly moving away from that as well.
We are still following Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding. It's really simple to follow, as long as we always remember to follow it!
Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding (http://ellynsatterinstitute.org/dor/divisionofresponsibilityinfeeding.php)
Children have natural ability with eating. They eat as much as they need, they grow in the way that is right for them, and they learn to eat the food their parents eat. Step-by-step, throughout their growing-up years, they build on their natural ability and become eating competent. Parents let them learn and grow with eating when they follow the Division of Responsibility in Feeding.
The Division of Responsibility for infants:
•The parent is responsible for what.
•The child is responsible for how much (and everything else).
Parents choose breast- or formula-feeding, and help the infant be calm and organized. Then they feed smoothly, paying attention to information coming from the baby about timing, tempo, frequency, and amounts.
The Division of Responsibility for babies making the transition to family food:
•The parent is still responsible for what,and is becoming responsible for when and where the child is fed.
•The child is still and always responsible for how much and whether to eat the foods offered by the parent.
Based on what the child can do, not on how old s/he is, parents guide the child’s transition from nipple feeding through semi-solids, then thick-and-lumpy food, to finger food at family meals.
The Division of Responsibility for toddlers through adolescents
•The parent is responsible for what, when, where.
•The child is responsible for how much and whether.
Fundamental to parents’ jobs is trusting children to determine how much and whether to eat from what parents provide. When parents do their jobs with feeding, children do their jobs with eating:
Parents’ feeding jobs:
•Choose and prepare the food.
•Provide regular meals and snacks.
•Make eating times pleasant.
•Step-by-step, show children by example how to behave at family mealtime.
•Be considerate of children’s lack of food experience without catering to likes and dislikes.
•Not let children have food or beverages (except for water) between meal and snack times.
•Let children grow up to get bodies that are right for them.
Children’s eating jobs:
•Children will eat.
•They will eat the amount they need.
•They will learn to eat the food their parents eat.
•They will grow predictably.
•They will learn to behave well at mealtime.
Kyle's new favorite activity - "mouth farting" (video)
Crawling then pulling up to kneeling (video)
Pulling up to stand (video)
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| Laughing while trying to eat |