Pasta? My son can manage the corkscrew kind pretty easily to pick up. I would definitely stay away from blueberries! Your son seems to like them, but they give my almost 1-yo terrible diaper rash. I think they are hard on the tummy.

You could also do the mum crackers and zwieback toast. Pancakes? Egg yolks (I make a little pancake out of it and break it up)

Sweet potato and reg potato chunks that he can pick up with his hands....

God, it just makes me cry. All those poor babies that lost their parents and all those poor parents that lost their babies. Their sorrow must be unbearable.

Ok, I am reposting -

40 wks on his due date exactly - NOT induced!!! it was very cool

40 weeks exactly, on his due date

Oy! Pinch, scratch, bite, slap and squeeze my cheeks - I get it all! It hurts but he does not understand that (though I think he is getting the picture)

I couldn't figure out where the cheek squeezing was coming from, but then I realize that I squeeze his cheeks when he is grinding his teeth (god, that drives me crazy!!!) And I think he slaps my cheeks because I sometimes hold his cute little head and kiss him all over the face.

I've heard that too, that babies crawled earlier because they slept on their stomachs and now with back to sleep, it takes a little longer but is nothing to be concerned about

Ok, never mind. A simple web search found a whole site dedicated to CSA.

thanks anyway

Can anyone recommend a CSA?

(I dont even know what this stands for but I think it has something to do with veggies, which is what I am looking for....thanks!)

My son screams too when he gets those awful red diaper rashes (the most recent one seemed to be caused by blueberries)

We wash his bum with water, air dry and sometimes use a blow dryer, and SWEAR by the Boudreaux's Butte Paste.

Anonymous wrote:My 3 yr old was a major biter, only to family thank goodness! We taught him to (this is gross to some) lick. Every time he was going for the bite we would say, lick, lick lick!! he still needs a reminder sometims. I don't really like getting licked by my child but it sure beats getting bit!

For some reason I find this hilarious! I can just see mom/dad yelling "lick! lick! lick!" and the picture is really funny to me. Not sure I will go this route, but you never know. So far, the little pop on the mouth has worked (well, it stopped him for about 3 days - he bite me again this morning and we are starting all over...so far so good, he has only biten my shirt collar at lunch topday....)

I wish I had something to offer you. My nearly 1-year old is also biting alot (I posted a "help" topic for this a week or so ago but it seems no one really knows what to do and it is a phase kids/babies go through)

If I learn anything about this, I will post again. All that seems to help right now is a little tap across his mouth with two fingers and putting him down and saying "no". Of course, he thinks it is a big joke, but I try to stay firm. Its hard.

Good luck.

You are being totally neurotic. I think crawling at 7-mos would be considered pretty early. I forget what the AAP says, but you should keep a copy of that book handy for when you are feeling nervous about these things and just look it up.

My son did not start crawling until about 10 mos and now there is no stopping him. But he only crawls on his belly and I started to feel panicky because he does not really crawl on his hands and knees. Then a bunch of people told me of some study that says the longer they belly crawl, the better their language skills seem to be (has something to do with how the brain develops and how they view the world when crawling and doing the crossover motion with arms/egs) Now I feel slightly worried for my friends whose kids only crawl for a short time and go straight to walking and are walking before a year. All this to say that IMHO, FWIW - your kid is fine. Do not compare your kid to other kids - it will only make you crazy. The all develop differently. Heck, my younger brother didn't speak until he was nearly 5 years old. He now has a masters degree, a very succesful marketing career and speaks 3 languages (that he learned when he was an adult, much harder than mastering as a child.)

On this same note, I have a friend that told me her baby was waving bye bye at 6 months and I felt just like you when my kid was not waving bye bye until 9-ish months. My ped told me that my friend was either out and out lying or that her kid might be flapping her hands/arms but really had no idea what she was doing and to stop worrying about it. My baby started waving around 9 months (on the early side according to the AAP) but didn't really know what it meant. Now at almost a year, he understands what it means. And he is right on track and doing fine, no matter what the other kids are doing.

So again - dont compare your kid to the other kids!!! They will never all be the same. And why are you in such a hurry for your baby to crawl anyway? Their time as a baby is short - try to enjoy every stage. They go quick.

Oooooooooooh! Good one, 3-2-1 Contact.....I forgot about that one....

(of course, by 1980 I was 12 and getting a little "too cool" for shows I thought might be for "kids" ha ha! ....but I am most definitely very not cool now and really miss these shows. We are going to buy whatever we can find online for our little boy. But I do kind of like SpongeBob.....)

A good site to check your products on is:

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/browse.php?category=sunscreenspf15andabove

(and thank you to the annoymous mom I got that from a while back on dcurbanmom i use this site all the time now!

Sorry, that pp was me - I thought I had logged on.