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my MIL just arrived
For her week long visit.,
:deep calming breaths:
They eat out for every meal but she is determined to "help" by cooking dinner. Here we go... SIL joins her on friday
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Ooooh good luck! I know I tell some stories about my MIL being a pain, but really she's a very sweet and nice woman (who just has some strange ideas)...but there is NO WAY I'd be able to have her stay with us for a week lol.
I advise a stockpile of wine.
Yes, you can do this now!
Hope the week flies by for you!
wine is a great idea (although in reality I'm still kind of nervous about alcohol) but that would really send her over the edge... I was eating a PB&J for lunch and she was convinced I shouldn't because I'm breastfeeding and Jack might be allergic to nuts? She was a little worried when I said I have had at least one a day since he was born - including one the day he was born right in front of the MW. And then in her dinner she is cooking she wanted to leave out the garlic because she didn't want him to have "spicy food"
my kitchen is already a huge mess and I have had to verbally explain how to peel/cut fresh garlic (while I was breastfeeding) as well as how to turn on a gas stove. I saw her dump 2 full boxes of pasta in the pot - so I guess maybe this meal will last us all week??
I've read that you actually should eat this kind of stuff while BFing because it helps your kids enjoy a wider range of food when they're older - that the wider range of things that you eat while breastfeeding, the more accepting they'll be with new foods later on.
Anyone know if that's true?
I have never heard/read this from a reliable source but it makes sense to me. At my BF class they basically said eat whatever (of course - healthy foods) then worry about diet modification only if your LO starts to show signs of reflux or discomfort. The eating lots of different stuff makes sense to me and my post partum "cravings" (am I allowed to have those?) have been all over the place and I haven't once worried about what it could be doing to my breast milk. Jack seems happy and hungry all the time...
while I can't have garlic in her opinion she was ready to make some sort of cake with frosting (gag - I hate frosting) and appears to be making some type of very buttery, cheesy pasta and just asked me if I wanted a diet coke (I don't drink soda). haha.
Holy cow! Either it lasts you all week, or she'll be scrubbing scorched starch-water overflow off the surface of the range all week.
I hope the time passes quickly for you. Just grin and bear it, all the while thinking "This will be a great story someday... not so much now, but someday!"
Oh boy. The good news? You can always claim exhaustion and settle down for naps with baby Jack...this is probably the one time that visitors won't be offended if you check out on them.
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This is true:
The benefits of breast milk
The constantly changing nature of breast milk gives babies an early opportunity to experience a range of different flavours, and they may start to develop certain food preferences.
Introducing a new flavour into your diet, such as garlic for example, may mean your baby will want to feed more over the next few days to make the most of this new, exciting taste1.
From here.
And this:
For the bottle-fed baby, milk is milk is milk. It always tastes the same unless there's something wrong with it. For the breast-fed baby, though, the mother's milk may have very different flavors depending on what the mother has been eating. Strong flavors, like garlic or beer, show up in the taste and the smell of the mother's milk. And according to the work of researchers like Mennella and Beauchamp, babies like these flavored versions of breast milk quite a lot, as they show by nursing longer. It's a myth that babies avoid the breast when the mother has eaten flavorful foods (although they may do so if the mother has a slight breast infection, which gives a saltier taste to the milk on the infected side). Is there any advantage to having different flavors on the menu? Some researchers have speculated that the various tastes of breast milk act as a "flavor bridge" to introduce the baby to the kind of foods the family normally eats, potentially leading to acceptance of a more varied diet, with related health advantages.
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