Grandma rant (lovingly)

[disykat]

Welcome to the club. I am into the mobile/eating stages now at 10 months old. DGS amazes me. Wait until it is time to start introducing foods. In my case, that was a whole different ball game. I was thinking mashed potatoes and applesauce from the table with baby food jars supplementing. Nope, DDIL and DS feeds DGS the same things that they eat just cut up into tiny pieces. DGS will eat bell pepper slices, pasta, spanish rice, all meats including duck and salmon and all kinds of fruit/veggies. He has had peanut butter toast. He will use a spoon if you fill it up and lay it on table. Forget the baby food jars of yesteryear. He is happy and healthy and not a picky eater. This month he learned to crawl upstairs with grandma close ready to catch him. I usually have him one day a week for a couple of hours prior to my going to work. If I am going to watch him longer or in the evenings, I will go to their house to keep him in his routine. Their house is more baby-proofed than mine. They do use a monitor so they can see if he can self soothe back to sleep or if they need to go in and put him back down. It all goes by too fast but we are having a ball. Enjoy!

I had the problem of in-laws trying to give my infants foods I hadn't introduced yet so I get the concept of being freaked out for something that might seem totally normal to them, but I'd obviously be the one freaking out here in this instance. I'm not a fan of "baby food," but there's no way I'd give a 10 month old random table food without knowing for sure if he'd already had it. I'd be totally stressed out at the idea of how your grandson is being fed! In the early 90's our kid's pediatrician said no wheat, nuts, citrus, or dairy until over a year in families with a history of any kind of allergy and other foods were introduced one at time so, while my kids ate some table food it was highly monitored at that age. I'm not a grandma yet, but I'm guessing safety protocols are a lot different than the last time I had babies around.