Being pregnant is a beautiful thing to me personally. You are creating life!! I am the proud mother of two boys. The first pregnancy was too easy. No morning sickness, mood swings, nothing really wrong except I had ice cream almost every day and gained a whopping 50lbs!!! Labor was as wonderful as labor be, at 36 weeks pregnant, my water breaks, a few short hours of labor, baby boy has arrived!! Healthy, beautiful, and screaming like they are suppose to!!! Life is great!!
Since the first go round was so easy and I come from a family of 5 siblings, all at least 8-10yrs older than me, I was sure not to do the same thing. I wanted my children close so they would always have each other and can share things in common. All the crazy joys of having children back to back sounded fun to me!! I was up for the challenge!
So, only five months later, I am pregnant again! Whoo hoo! Thank you Jesus, I have been blessed. Things are really not as wonderful this go round. I’m sick every morning, afternoon & evening for the first 6 months. My morning coffee and cereal and now been replaced with a chocolate carnation breakfast, every single morning for 9 long months. Almost everything made me sick, I could smell everything, and everything was horrible. I could no longer chew gum or hardly even brush my teeth! I learned that cinnamon tooth paste wasn’t as bad, so I also started chewing cinnamon gum, which I could only chew for 3 minutes tops. No major complications, just personal pregnancy issues. Baby is healthy and everything is great. At 38 weeks, my sweet baby boy number 2 arrives! Super easy delivery, one push and a cough, he was out! Beautiful and weighing in at 7lbs & 7oz, another healthy baby boy, named Price. Once again, I am blessed!
Time to go home and all the sudden we have some complications. Its day two of us being in the hospital and Price has a rash all over his face. Doctors, nurses and family immediately think it’s just a newborn rash. It could also be that he was exposed to bacteria, because he dropped so early.
The rash clears up the next mornings, but, after a week in the hospital and several IV’s of antibiotics we get to go home and there were no bacteria. Turns out it was just a rash. But, with those newborns, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Now we are home, I’m starring reality in the face that I have a newborn and a 14 month old, which by the way, learned to walk the week we were in the hospital with Price. Life is crazy busy. I am a full time student and my husband is mostly working out of town. Life is going by fast, I’m not able to breastfeed because of some complications I had with Peyton. About 4 months later, we start rice cereal with a spoon! Price is very quick to gag. Every single time, it’s worse and worse. I wait about a month to try again. Now, Price is 6 months old and should have this down, still very much against eating. He spits it out, doesn’t want it, and gags every time. I now try the yummy jar food. I buy almost every flavor for sure he will eat one of them.
Now we are at 8 months old. No solid foods, however, he does finally seem to enjoy orange baby food. Nothing green, for that makes him gag! I remember one day, sitting at our kitchen table and Peyton tried to give Price a puffy cheeto, Price spits it out so fast. He made the worst face, like that really was the worst thing he had ever had!
Now, about at a year old, Price still hasn’t had solid foods. But, after many, many attempts at almost every food possible, he does still get his orange baby food and he also likes two types of yogurt.
We have now started Price on Pediasure and ensure. Plus, I have him on Vitamin D milk and of course I slip in a chocolate carnation breakfast. My main goal here was to try to get the vitamins and minerals in him any way I could. This is probably where I went wrong, he is filling up on liquids.
At his 1st birthday, he barley licked the icing off his cake. My pictures of his party are
Peyton eating Price’s cake. Now, this part becomes a big blur to me. I’m not sure when I
noticed this eating or lack thereof to be a problem. At about 15 months old, I’m at the doctor
with Peyton who is sick. I need to add that Price is hardly ever sick. I like to think it’s the ensure
that has built his immune system to be very strong. I start to talk to the pediatrician about Price
not eating. She suggests that I give up the liquids, make him sit at the table with us for every
meal and eat what is in front of him, if he doesn’t eat, he doesn’t eat.
This is all for today! Would you / have you done this to your child? Did it work?
