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Entries Tagged as 'Feeding'

Making Food Healthy and Fun!

July 12th, 2010 by amy · 7 Comments

I’m super lucky that my twins are far from picky eaters, but they are still toddlers and therefore have opinions- strong ones, so I’m always trying to get creative to make food healthy and fun.  I recently read an article on CNN.com titled, “10 Nutrition Powerhouses for Kids”.  You should too!  I found it so [...]

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Tags: Feeding · Solid Foods · Toddlers

Weaning on two (or three!) different timelines

June 25th, 2010 by jenna · 9 Comments

For a number of reasons including my sore back, my schoolwork demands, and our childcare schedule, I’m getting more proactive about weaning. (And, I think I read heard imagined that toddlers stop breastfeeding and start walking about the same time. Since our girls are almost 18 months old and still not walking, maybe this will [...]

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Tags: Breastfeeding · Development · Routines · Toddlers

Older siblings and new babies

June 14th, 2010 by jenna · 14 Comments

I have been asked to submit a story for a booklet produced by our local twins and triplets club. They suggested I contribute something about having a toddler while pregnant with twins and while caring for newborn twins.  Here are some of the strategies we used to get our son prepared for the new babies. [...]

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Tags: Breastfeeding · Infants · Pregnancy · Singletons · Toddlers

Summer Snacking, Here We Come!

May 5th, 2010 by Rachel · 4 Comments

Well, we’ve had our requisite four days of spring here in South Texas and now the temperatures are in the 90s so out comes the water table in the back yard, the sunscreen, the mosquito spray (yep, we use DEET and our pediatrician said it was best because have you met the mosquitos in Houston??), [...]

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Tags: Activities · Feeding

I Can Almost Taste It

February 3rd, 2010 by Rachel · 12 Comments

Since the kids were born, meals are nary a time for savory socialization. Instead, it’s a strategic placement of cups and food and making sure they don’t climb out of their high chairs, (incidentally, has anyone else noticed that the buckles on those things ARE ALWAYS BROKEN?), or grab my margarita, or scoop up the [...]

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Tags: Feeding · Mommy Issues

brotherly love

February 1st, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 13 Comments

When I was pregnant with my twins, I remember reading something that warned parents of multiples against thinking their babies needed them any less because of having been born a multiple. I was bummed when I read that. We did our best to parent our twins as we had our oldest. I nursed them, they [...]

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Tags: Behavior · Development · Older children · Preschoolers · Relationships · Sleep

Smoothie Addicts

January 18th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 12 Comments

My children have a problem. An addiction. Something they ask for morning, noon, and night. (Even more than they ask for TV.) My kids are smoothie addicts. It’s all my mom’s fault. She’s the one who introduced the smoothie into our lives. And indulged the kids’ every-morning request when we stayed at her house for [...]

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Tags: Feeding · Older children · Solid Foods · Toddlers

Thank God for Messy Faces

January 8th, 2010 by jenna · 4 Comments

On those days when you don’t have enough eyes to watch all your children or enough arms to keep them all out of trouble.  When you are too tired or distracted or busy to be giving everyone all the attention they need…. When you have a 3 year old who decides he doesn’t like cheese, [...]

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Tags: Behavior · Feeding · Safety

Back 2 the Future: Baby, you’re so money.

December 1st, 2009 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 20 Comments

In trying to decide what to write about this week, I came across an email I’d sent my sister in May 2005, when my twins were almost 9 months old and my daughter was not quite 3. The email was 316 words of me freaking out over our family finances. We were paying for part [...]

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Tags: Childcare · Feeding

Quick and yummy eating options

August 15th, 2009 by rebecca · 7 Comments

Jenna’s post yesterday got me thinking about food. And eating. And the continual challenge of finding the time and energy to get food on the table that doesn’t come from our local Indian food restaurant (or sub shop or pizza place…you get my drift). While  I used to enjoy some cooking, I find it difficult [...]

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Tags: Feeding · Older children