My sister was asking me questions about feeding my kids the other day.

I have NO memory of starting to feed Josie. None.

She eats now so I am sure I did feed her but, well, I'm drawing a blank. lmao.

Charlie used a sippy at 10 months. I gave him milk in a sippy at 10 months (early I know) with meals to get him used to it. He never took a bottle so I wanted him used to having something in a cup for when I went back to work. By 12 months, that was how he got his milk all day.

As for toys, we were very lucky Josie wasn't as interested in putting things in her mouth as Charlie was at her age. I still have no idea how you would do this.

Wow, not much help from me. Sorry.

C did sippies at 6 or 7 mos. she always did better with straw cups though, even at that age.
not sure about when we decreased nursings. it was always hard to tell with cara - while she was never a ravenous nurser or a comfort nurser, she was never on any kind of great schedule. i was home with her though so just sort of played it by ear.

for us, it was impossible to keep the little stuff away from C. i'm assuming allie and R are similar in their styles of play - if i'm right, you have a TON of little mini figures and beads and stuff. sooo hard. i tried my hardest to tell R that she had to keep certain things upstairs in her room or playroom, and then if C was in there with her, i'd just have to sit there monitoring.
the layout of my house is good though bc R's toys are mainly upstairs, so C and i would just hang out downstairs at that stage.
C will be 2 at the end of the month, and still is very much with the stuff in the mouth. still have to watch carefully. she's tricky that way.

her first chicken was at this party we went to when she was 10 mos. no clue about red meat, we rarely eat it anyway. definitely not till past a year though.

Isn't it funny how you totally forget?  I'm on my THIRD child, and still feel like a first time mom sometimes, lol

Kenley has a sippy cup now (6 months) but she doesn't drink out of it much.  She mostly sucks on it and just plays around with it.

I can't remember with Presley, mainly because that was about the time she got sick so it's all a blur with her

With SarahGrace, she was breasfed until she was 13 months old.  She was eating people food, I'd say around 9-10 months old, but also baby food too.  She'd still breastfeed at least 4 times a day even then.  I didn't start her on cow's milk until she was a year old,  and even then it wasn't very much because she was still nursing. 

I think she was close to  a year before I gave her real meat.  I did try the baby food meat, but she didn't like it too much so I didn't force it on her.  She would eat the dinners that had meat in them though.

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One would think I am a first time mom, but I have totally forgotten a few things.

1. I cannot remember at what age Allie drank out of a sippy well. Should Mia be drinking well out of one at 9 months? I somehow remember Allie doing it very early, but I could be making that up. IDR their exact ages, but it wasn't terribly early for Anna.  She never actually caught on to the sippy that well, so we moved onto a straw, and that went MUCH better.  Both of mine learned on straws.  But agewise???  Hmmm...IDK.  I know Kate was drinking well out of a cup by 9 months, but Anna was not.  I don't really think it matters a whole lot, tbh.  She'll get it soon enough. 

2. When do you drop the amount of milk? She is now on people food for most, but still give baby food. She gets three solid meals now and her bottles about 4 times a day.  Again, it is so hard to remember.  I can't believe in only 2 years I have forgotten all of this stuff!!!  I think 4 bottles a day sounds about right though.  I think ours had a bottle in the morning with breakfast, then one before nap, maybe another after nap (Anna was on 2 naps at that age, Kate was moving to one), and then bedtime.  Then we dropped the post nap bottle, then switched the morning bottle to a cup, then dropped the pre-nap bottle and finally did away with the bedtime.  Anna had a bedtime bottle until she was about 20 months (we had planned on taking it away sooner, but didn't because of the potential upset with having a new sibling), Kate was 15 months when we took hers.  Neither of them ever went to bed with one-it was the beginning part of the routine, then teeth brushing and story.

3. How the heck did you keep all your older kids little toys out of the hands of your little one. Mia puts everything in her mouth and is into everything. I found her the other day choking on one of Allies hair rubber bands. She scared the crap out of me. I have to watch her like a hawk. This wasn't much of a problem for me.  Anna was much worse about putting things in her mouth than Kate ever was, so at 16 months, she wasn't playing with teeny things anyway.  They have pretty much grown up together on that front.  Even so, when we first started getting toys with little parts, I would sit with them and watch them play, and when one of them would put something in their mouth, I would take it away and tell them no and such.  I still don't allow them to play with those magnetix toys (Bill loves those, lmao) without supervision, even though they know better by this age.  I would enlist Allie's help in keeping the floors and surfaces Mia can access clear of little things as much as possible.
 
4. When did you give meat to your child? We did the meat in the baby food meals at about the 8 month point.  IDT we tried actual meat until later, past a year with Anna for sure.  She gagged on everything.  Again though, Kate was different.  She wanted what we had, so we gave her softer meats earlier on.  IDR exactly when, but it was definitely before a year.  At 9 months, Anna had just mastered the stage 3 baby food, but by 9 months Kate was pretty much eating all table food.

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