Day 22 – Breakfast

So I hadn’t decided which of our remaining allergens to test this week before I made breakfast this morning so I decided to just make something nice with what we had on hand. Sometimes I look at our pantry and fridge and see nothing. Other times I see opportunity and get plenty of food ideas. Today was a big idea day.

Last weekend my husband made a soup that needed buttermilk as an ingredient. After he opened and used what he needed from the carton it got pushed to the back of the fridge. Luckily, I remembered it last night as I though about today and started planning for breakfast.

Buttermilk pancakes!

The recipe I decided to use is from one of my BLW apps (Annabel Karmel Recipes) that I have on my phone. But be warned, the recipes from here are in metric so you will need a scale and appropriate measuring equipment. I’ve been cooking a long time though so switching between different measuring systems I can handle.

These pancakes came out amazing too, by the way. I added about a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the batter but followed the rest of it to the ‘T’.

I also made my own mixed berry compote. I just tossed about a cup of frozen mixed berries into a sauce pan and heated on high until bubbly. Then I mashed up the berries to make a smoother texture and let it simmer on low until it thickened some. In the future I’ll probably play with this some. Add in some spices and what not to see what Malina likes, but spoiler alert: she loved the berries as is.

Then I served up some more homemade whipped cream without sugar and our leftover cucumbers from the other day. And somehow I managed to get this all done in 45 minutes.

Okay, it was planning and Eric holding Malina, but still I felt really good about this performance on my part.

And of course the first thing she went for was the pancakes as her other hand discovered the whipped cream. She was tentative at first, since this is the softest pancake she’s had yet (crepes are in our future) but she soon discovers that it tasted good.

“We should have started with these pancakes.”

She ate at least two strips. She loved her pancakes. Pluto was also given his tribute, though most of that was the cucumber. Malina was not feeling the savory cucumber as an accompaniment and was quick to discard them and go back to her pancakes.

She did however seem interested in the berry compote and whipped cream but unable to get any. I had the idea that she’d mix the pancake pieces in it, but that’s a skill she hasn’t developed yet. So instead I gave her a spoon and she then made a huge mess as she ate it.

As you can see, she liked it and promptly demolished it.

I feel good about this meal though. It might look sugar heavy but the only added sugar was 20g in the batter mix and she didn’t get all of that. Then whatever natural sugars that were in the berries. So I say it’s fine.

Starting tomorrow we will he going into fish as our allergen. I am planning to do some meal prep for the week with my time this weekend as well. And I’ll try to get my master post for the resources I use together.

So remember, even if you do offer sugar to baby, you are still doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 21 – Breakfast

And today marks the end of week 3! One more week and then we are officially a month into this.

So today our schedule was a bit off but somehow everything worked out for once. Breakfast was easy enough to figure out and when we got things going it was smooth sailing.

The last of the veggie nests, fried eggs, and mandarin oranges.

Nothing new today and everything served were things Malina has eaten and liked in the past. Still, repetition is good for taste development as well as continued exposure.

Not going to stand on ceremony, Malina went for her food right away and shoved a veggie nest into her face. Like she smashed it against her face and then realized “wait I need to open my mouth.” This was the second attempt and already she was doing better since her mouth was open.

It’s nice to see her enjoy her food and I am reminded of another reason that it’s good to repeat foods. When she likes something she’s more likely to eat it and more of it each time it’s offered. Including her fried eggs.

Malina also enjoyed her mandarin oranges. She’s been on and off with them recently but today was a good day and she ate two slices. Or at least she ate the juices of two slices, still not liking the pulp.

All in all a great breakfast and a nice finish to week three of Malina’s food adventure.

So remember, there are good days where things work out and even if today isn’t one you are still doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 19 – Breakfast

My posts are all off right now as I play catch-up. Yikes do things get in the way when you have a baby. Malina had trouble last week because of teething and now she’s been having trouble sleeping. Which means I am having trouble sleeping. Symbiotic relationships aren’t always great for everyone.

But anyways, I have uploaded the last couple of days posts and am finally back on track. So today, Wednesday, we actually got some rest. I’m not sure if this is a fluke or if something changed or if Malina is back to her older schedule but I’m taking it right now.

So having slept decent I woke up before Malina for the first time in forever and went to preheat the oven for our breakfast today.

Vegetable nests, meatless breakfast patties, and frozen raspberries.

So everything today is from Trader Joe’s. I like them, they have low sodium and sugar, and it makes my life easier especially when sleep has not been guaranteed and I haven’t had energy to really cook or do meal prep.

What’s important is baby is eating anyways.

So I served this up and Malina was quick to grab the silicone feeder of raspberries. She probably thought it was bananas as she started to eat.

I wish I’d gotten a picture of her surprise but she was fast and right after discovering it was good she popped it right back in her mouth.

I think she’s gotten used to having breakfast and eating because she doesn’t jump from item to item as much anymore and instead focuses on one thing at a time. Today the main focus was her new favorite, frozen raspberries. The picture doesn’t do her justice for how red her mouth and face got from her eating the berries, but she ate almost all of them and it wasn’t until an unfortunate shake of the feeder that she lost the entire thing to the floor.

She was upset a moment but I got her to focus on all the food she hadn’t touched yet. And her next choice was the meatless breakfast patty. The first one was tossed to the floor, tribute for Pluto, though he was put away because of the onions in today’s food. The next patty she started to eat. Watching me for cues. I think it’s adorable that she sometimes won’t eat the food until she sees me take a bite of the same thing.

“If you’re eating it, it can’t be that bad.”

She ate a couple bites but she wasn’t a big fan of the patties today. With nothing else to try, she finally went for the vegetable nests.

Malina seemed to like the texture of the nests. She touched them and pulled them apart as she tried to eat it. She also seemed to like the actual vegetables, though I think she only got zucchini and onion in her bites that she took. She was happy as she ate it and I was happy that she liked it.

Today was a good day for her breakfast. She ate some of everything and seemed to really like the raspberries and vegetable nests. I’m going to have to go back over what she’s been offered vs what she’s tried and make sure we repeat what we need to and mark off what she’s eaten. I’ll probably make a summary post when we get to the end of our first month and sometime before then make a post on our goal of 100 foods before one as well as explain what that is. But for now, mama needs to relax.

So remember, even when sleep deprived, you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Note: Soy was in everything besides the fruit today and we are still reaction free.

Day 18 – Breakfast

Double posts because I forgot to publish the previous post yesterday. Meh, I was tired and busy. Today we’re continuing with soy and I am proud to announce that there have been no negative reactions to any of our allergens we’ve introduced so far. I think when that rash happened it was because of something not food related, because Malina has not gotten it again since.

So, moving on to breakfast. Today we are trying a combo food. It’s not technically the first we’ve tried but it is the first that is very obviously more than one ingredient. Our food is…

Korean scallion pancake (Pa Jeon). These have onion, leek, garlic, carrot, oyster mushrooms, and scallions in them. They are so good and honestly I should try making them at home since these packages only come with four. They are also made with soy sauce, eggs, and wheat flour. So there are three allergens in these as well.

The remainder of our breakfast was fried eggs and navel orange slices. Malina’s egg was cooked until the yoke was solid and cooked through.

When we sat down to eat, Malina surveyed her options and then stared at me. She’s gotten into a habit of wanting to eat what I have so I took a bite out of my scallion pancake and then handed it to her. Little thief.

“What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine.”

At least she liked it. She gnawed and chewed on the pancake for most of breakfast. She ate a few bites as well and again I was impressed by her.

She took a break from the pancake long enough to try her fried eggs, but she wasn’t that into them today and went right back to the pancake. So I turned her plate so she had easier access to them and her orange slices.

She did not attempt to eat the eggs at all again. Then the next time she tried something besides her new favorite thing it was the sliced orange. I’ll admit, the mandarins are sweeter and easier to eat and that might be what the problem here was, but Malina was not impressed with her orange. She ate two bites and then discarded it to the dog.

She went back to her scallion pancakes again and only munched on them until breakfast was over.

The point of introducing so many different textures, flavors, and foods is to help prevent picky-ness. Though after today I have to wonder if there is a difference between being picky and having a preference. Malina loves mandarin oranges but hasn’t seemed to care for the navel oranges. Is this a preference or is she being picky? Why did she refuse the fried egg today? We found she liked them better than eggs any other way but what was off today?

I guess there are really no answers until she can speak, but I can’t help wondering. In the meantime I’ll just have to keep trying and hope for the best.

So remember, even if babies tastes are hard to predict, you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 16 – Breakfast

Today we didn’t have soy. I got the tofu and meant to prep it but I didn’t get around to it. But as I mentioned previously we’ve accidentally introduced soy before, in our bread. Yup. The whole wheat bread I buy also has soy flour in it. Go figure. So I guess we did have soy, just not the way I had originally planned.

So today we did pumpkin french toast, homemade unsweetened whipped cream, and mandarin slices.

The french toast is actually a recipe from one of my BLW cookbooks. It uses pumpkin purée, eggs, milk, and a few spices. I just want to say it tasted amazing. Like pumpkin pie and the whipped cream was a great addition.

The whipped cream is pretty straight forward. I had heavy cream and I decided to take my electric whisk to it for a few minutes until stiff peaks formed. I’ve made it before, usually with sugar and vanilla extract, but since this was for Malina just the cream did fine.

So once our decadent breakfast was served Malina dove straight for the mandarin oranges.

We’ve offered oranges and mandarin oranges before with mixed results. But me and my husband snack on them during the day and Malina has shown a lot of interest when we are eating it and we’ve been sharing. She loves them. She gnaws on them, extracting all the juices, and then discards the chewed up pulp. So citrus is good here.

The next thing she went for was the pumpkin french toast sticks. I made sure to cut them real thin for easy handling and watched as Malina tried them.

She liked it! Two for two so far. Malina picked up the sticks and tore off chunks and ate them. She is getting better at chewing and swallowing the foods. She is also getting better at spitting things out, so when she’s done chewing and extracting the flavors there really is a 50/50 chance of either happening. Still, I’m happy that we’ve crossed from trying foods to eating them. I didn’t realize there was a real difference until she started to eat more of a thing and not just move from one thing to the next.

She did try the french toast with the whipped cream, on accident, but she also tried it on its own. She seemed to like the texture as she put her fingers in it and played with it. She ate some of it as well and seemed to like it like everything else.

So all in all today was a major success. Malina liked everything and ate a good amount of all of it. She’s improving her ability to handle foods as well as her palate for different foods and textures.

So even when things are going really well, it’s a good idea to remind yourself that that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 15 – Breakfast

On to our third week of our BLW adventure and we are doing the soy introduction. Soy is an interesting ingredient as it’s in the obvious things but also in a lot of surprising things. For example, the whole wheat bread I routinely buy has soy in it. the things you learn when you look for specific ingredients in your foods, but I digress.

Today’s breakfast is chorizo and eggs with tortilla and white cheddar cheese. The chorizo is made with tofu instead of pork and there in is the soy.

I almost forgot to snap a pic of the plate before Malina dove into it, since she was extra eager this morning. Probably because most of our teething is behind us for this tooth.

Soy chorizo and eggs on our new plate and frozen banana in our new feeder.

The first thing she went for though was the flour tortilla strips. She gummed on them and tore them apart, eating a few bites.

She did try to mess with the chorizo egg mixture but she had a hard time getting bites and wasn’t as interested in it as everything else. So the next thing she actually tried was the cheese.

Still a no go on the cheddar though. She took her bite and then rejected it. At least there is still mozzarella.

The last thing she went for was our new silicone feeder with frozen banana.

Of course she loved it when she got the hang of the feeder and ate almost the entire three slices of banana inside. I was super surprised and impressed. Malina really likes banana.

So it was a good morning and Malina ate a good amount. She keeps getting better with the foods she likes and I hope she continues to be open to trying the new things I have planned for her.

Just remember, even if baby eats a little or a lot, that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 14 – Breakfast

We have a tooth! Malina has been teething for almost a week and yesterday we got to see the tooth make its appearance as it cut through the gums. Now that the supposed hard hurting part is over I’m hoping Malina gets to relax and not be in so much pain. In helping with that I made her some easy to mash foods for her to chew on for breakfast today.

We have cauliflower pancakes, meatless breakfast patties, frozen blueberries, and yogurt.

It’s fun eating what she’s eating. Or is it her eating what I’m eating? Eh, same difference.

Malina was not eager again but with some coaxing she grabbed one of the meatless patties first.

And she loved it! She ate about a quarter of a full patty and it broke up easy for her as she ate it. I was happy to have a success and to see some of her appetite coming back.

Note on items being served: I shop at a bunch of different places for our family but one of my favorites is Trader Joe’s. The reason why is the portioning of their products. I can buy something that is intended to feed two people easy without worrying about leftover or reheating things. The same is true for individual portions. Plus, I’ve ran into way more things I like that they sell than things I dislike, so I always feel confident buying something new. So both the meatless patties and cauliflower pancakes come from there. I checked the sodium and sugar levels before I bought them too and was happy I could share them with Malina.

Malina enjoyed her meatless patty so much that she got excited and tossed the other one while hitting her tray. Pluto was the victor of that half, it was gone by the time I bent to look.

Continuing on, she grabbed for the cauliflower pancake and before I could decipher her reaction she’d tossed it with a yell and grabbed the second one to do the same. I can’t say I blame her, they weren’t all that great.

Mid toss of patty two, because why fight her about her dislikes.

I guess we’re at the tossing phase now. At least I have a dog for cleaning the mess. A dog that is going to get fat and then need to go on a diet, I remind myself. Or maybe Malina will start crawling and that will give him his exercise. Lol.

So the next thing I tried to get her to eat was the frozen blueberries. She tried it too, but apparently she dislikes blueberries more than she likes the cold.

I wish I could say that she ate the yogurt again, but she was irritated and threw the first and second spoon before I gave up on that endeavor.

So I cleaned Malina up and called breakfast as being over. Meatless patties were a win, everything else not so much. It will probably be a while now before I try blueberries again since she obviously didn’t like them.

So whether baby is picky, has preferences, or hates everything just remember that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 13 – Breakfast

Almost done with week two. Which was supposed to be only the dairy allergen introduction, but has turned into both dairy and wheat. There is no right or wrong way to do this I suppose, since there is no history of food allergies in my or my husbands family and since our doctor okayed everything.

Still. I liked my original plan.

One major allergen of the eight, done for a week each week for the first two months. Nice and simple. I had a meal plan too for all of this, but life happens and things don’t always work out. At least Malina hasn’t had any more reactions beyond that one time (which I’m still curious about since it hasn’t happened again).

So in these two weeks Malina has been exposed to eggs, dairy, wheat, peanuts, and soy in varying amounts. Well there goes five of eight. This does not mean she isn’t intolerant or allergic, since a reaction doesn’t always happen the first or even hundredth time. I’m not going to worry or get into that right now however. Instead, I’m going to give myself some leeway since there are so many combo foods and trying to do individual ingredients is crowding Malina’s plate and my fridge.

So, today we did one of those combo foods as a part of our breakfast: Potato latkes. Also, because I have an inkling that Malina would like the applesauce without cinnamon, I’m offering plain applesauce as well as a side of sour cream to go with the latkes. Finally, I offered Malina her mesh feeder for the first time with frozen bananas to help with her teething.

Since this was her first time with the mesh feeder, I helped her grab it correctly and showed her how to use it. It took a couple tries, but she got the relative hang of it.

She munched on those bananas for about five minutes and enjoyed it so much. She ate about half of it I found out when I cleaned it and was impressed.

The next thing she went for were the latkes. She didn’t try to pick it up the usual way she reached for things, instead today she picked at it with her fingers and surprised me by getting a piece and bringing it to her mouth.

She developing her pincer grasp! Now I don’t feel so bad about having her practice with the small pieces over the last two weeks. I’m so proud of her and happy because she keeps developing quickly and surprising me with all she is capable of.

And she loved the latkes. I mean it is potato and potatoes are awesome. She picked at them a while and ate about one slice worth between the three over her entire breakfast time.

I got her to try the sour cream in the middle somewhere hoping to get her to see the flavor combination. Instead, she just wanted to eat the sour cream. I guess I should have expected that.

Next, I offered her a spoon of the plain applesauce. I had high hopes. I thought I figured out her problem with the apples I’d offered so far. It had to be the cinnamon. Apples taste good. Applesauce is good.

“Why do you keep doing this to me, apples?”

Does that look like the face of a baby enjoying applesauce?

Nope, I didn’t think so either.

She did much better with the cinnamon one. So I’m back to square one. I’ll probably go for green apples next. Find one that’s tart but not sour.

Malina spent the rest of her time eating and taking apart the latkes and putting her fingers in the sour cream. She also munched in the bananas a bit more but they were starting to be less frozen and less pleasing to her. So that was our morning.

Malina likes her mesh feeder and she enjoyed the frozen bananas, the potato latkes, and sour cream. And we had more setbacks with apples, but I’m not giving up.

Despite any setbacks it’s always important to remember that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 9 – Breakfast

Last night was rough. Just typical baby stuff though. Waking up, needing things, and then not wanting to sleep. Still, Eric is the most helpful husband and put Malina to sleep when I was too tired and in too much pain (baby girl is a tank and weighs as much as one it seems, and ouch my back).

Luckily, when she did sleep she stayed asleep until 7:40am. So late morning start here, but it was nice. We did our morning ritual and then I started our breakfast.

Today’s menu is pork sausage, fried egg, green beans, cottage cheese, and banana. I know, this is a lot of foods. But BLW says to give baby what you are eating and giving Malina a bit of everything is good texture and motor experience. So I made breakfast and served the three of us at 8:50am.

Sitting Malina down after I put down the plate had worked out better since she is always excited now and tries to grab everything. When she is settled in front of her plate today she still does the same but I don’t have to worry about attaching the plate around waving arms and hands, and the first thing she grabbed was banana.

The way shown above is how it is “generally suggested” to serve banana. Honestly, it seems like a good idea as you provide a handle for baby to hold onto by leaving the peel half on. Malina has big hands, but they were no match for the banana. She had to use both to pick it up and then when she brought it to her face it broke in half. Right where the peel ended.

So she did not get to try the banana an at first as I had to rescue the top half and my husband took the bottom half. I went to fix what was left of her banana into spears as Eric watched Malina continue breakfast.

So faced with the rest of her plate she went for the fried egg. She still likes it too, so Malina is a fried egg baby. At least for now.

She ate a couple small nibbles of egg before it ended up on the floor and sides of her chair. Next, Malina reached for the pork sausage. I had to find sausages with minimal ingredients, seasonings, and salt. This one hit all the marks and after pan cooking it I squeezed it between palate towels to soak up the extra fat and grease. I also cut it in half lengthwise before serving it. (Note: Malina got sick later in the afternoon and my husband and mom think it was the sausage from the morning. I’ll probably move forward with making my own breakfast patties for Malina in the future).

Malina chomped on the sausage for a while. She really seemed to like it and when she did finally put it down she tried her green beans.

She put them in her mouth, made a face of disgust, and tossed them as far away as she could. The whole handful. Guess someone doesn’t like steamed green beans.

We were able to get her to pick up the new banana spears next and she did a lot better with them. I was worried about how slippery they would get but Malina handled it just fine and even got a little bit off to eat. She seemed to like it so I plan to try and find easier ways to help her eat slippery foods.

Last we gave her a spoon of the cottage cheese. Unlike the sour yogurt, she was not a fan of these sour cheese curds and proceeded to attempt to toss them everywhere. Luckily we were at the end of breakfast and did not make too much of a mess.

With today’s success in the food department we’ve gotten Malina to eat two new foods and try two others. I hope to get her to actually eat the green beans and cottage cheese in the future, but for now I am happy that she tries the foods and does seem to have preferences and like eating.

So whether your baby likes it, hates it, eats it, or throws it, remember that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica

Day 5 – Breakfast

I did meal prep last night! Yay! I managed to set up everything for this morning and all I had to do was go put the zucchini in the oven when I got up. Easy. I guess I should tell you what I made for today though.

So I’ve heard a bunch of mamas, across several groups that I am in, say they made egg salad without mayonnaise and used avocado as the replacement. Sounded interesting and weird. Two things I can totally get behind if it works out, and did it ever. No one ever seems to provide recipes for this stuff though, so here is what I did in case anyone wants to give it a shot.

1/2 avocado, nice and ripe and diced up

2 hard boiled eggs, diced how you like it

1/2 tsp of dill

1/2 tsp of granulated garlic

You just mix everything together with a fork and you get a nice chunky consistency that tastes divine.

I will have to make this for me next time and put it on some buttered toast. Avocado toast has a new challenger in the arena of topping combinations. It would probably do amazing with some salt or lemon mixed in as well, but that is neither here or now since this is for Malina.

So the oven would have preheated when the timer for it went off (but we got up early) so I went out to toss my pan of breaded zucchini from the fridge into the oven and started it up.

Malina did her morning ritual and then we were sitting down and eating by 8 am.

So we have breaded baked zucchini, avocado egg salad, and I tossed a could slices of regular avocado on the plate just to see how she handled it. I was ready for today to be messy, but today is also bath day so I figured what ever.

So the first thing Malina reaches for is the avocado. I think I actually cut the slice a little too thick for her to handle but the other slice was too thin and became insta mush. She was not impressed by the avocado unfortunately, which I’m starting to think is a texture thing as she hasn’t really been into anything ‘slimy’. Will have to consider than in the future.

The next thing she tried to mess with was the avocado egg salad. It ended up everywhere but her mouth so I brought in our trusty friend, the spoon.

With BLW they don’t seem to like utensils until Baby is older. This stems from an idea that spoon feeding is part of traditional weaning and has no place in BLW. I get the problem stemming from possible ‘over feeding’ when someone spoon feeds the baby, but I think it’s easy to avoid doing that. Something that does occasionally seem acceptable is offering a pre-loaded spoon of food. But even this method expects the spoon to just be laid on the table for baby to pick up on their own. This seems problematic to me because baby doesn’t know how to use a spoon first off, then it’s more of a weapon (dart) or mess maker (trebuchet) offered in this way, and finally I don’t want her to get frustrated while she’s eating anymore than necessary.

So I load up the spoon with our avocado mixture and hand it to her. Also, I want everyone to know that Malina has been practicing with spoons without food for almost a month now. We’ve also encouraged her to hold it and put it in her mouth a certain way. So, this was not her first time using a spoon.

Using the spoon.

I also want to take a moment to add a video clip of Malina gagging. I was already recording when this happened and between me knowing she was okay and being right there incase things turned out badly I kept recording. -At no point did Malina go into distress or was in any danger – That being said, it is important to know the difference between chocking and gagging no matter how you feed baby. It is also important to know how to properly handle both. In this case I encouraged her (because getting involved can have mixed results) and she worked it out by herself without intervention.

Malina gagged a bit on the avocado egg.

The video cuts out like that because I saved the spoon. Malina quickly went back to eating and ended up wanting the spoon again too.

The last thing she tried was the baked breaded zucchini.

A note on breading: be sure to check that whatever you are using does not have honey in it for children under 1 year of age. Honey hides in all types of things and it’s better to be safe than sorry.

So I made the Baked breaded zucchini sticks from one of my BLW cookbooks. This specific recipe was from “Baby-Led Feeding” by Jenna Helwig. It turned out pretty good, the only thing I’d do to modify it, if I make it again, would be to try and squeeze out some of the moisture from the zucchini before breading to avoid soggy sticks. Malina was not a fan of the breading however so I might not get to try that modification any time soon.

Or maybe she ate the breading off and didn’t like the zucchini. It’s hard to know for sure since Malina isn’t talking about it.

So I can add avocado to our list of successes and I know that Malina will eat hard boiled eggs when mixed with something. I’m going to add zucchini too since she did eat some of it, but I’m going to add a note to try it another way to see how she does.

Finally, I wanted to add that Malina is usually a very happy little girl and she only makes these upset sour faces when eating and only sometimes then as well. So here are a couple smiles from today’s mess.

“Oops, did I make a mess?”

“Come here, mama. I have avocado fingers for you!”

Oh and it was messy. There was avocado EVERYWHERE. Me and the dog got scheduled for baths after avocado-geddon. That spoon came at me and pegged me in the head. And the dog got avocado dropped on him soon after.

Also, remember what I said about her practicing with the spoon? Same is true for the sippy cup. She practiced for a month to get to where she is at and it was only with encouragement and an occasional helping hand that she is able to do as well as she does.

Using the sippy cup

At the end of the day, every baby is different and capable of different things. Malina can’t roll from stomach to back for example and crawls by pushing her head around on the floor. so don’t be hard on yourself or on baby. They will get there when they get there. So remember, that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica