{"id":1541,"date":"2013-10-04T07:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2013-11-21T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:54:15","slug":"feeding-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/04\/feeding-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honeybun\u00a0is completing her 7th<\/sup> week of kindergarten and I\u2019m in my 5th<\/sup> week of my fall teaching schedule.\u00a0 I am now teaching three nights a week and Saturday mornings.\u00a0 The new schedule (in addition to Honeybun’s\u00a0school and homework schedule) is difficult mostly because it affects how our family has to eat.<\/p>\n

One night a week I don\u2019t teach until 7:30 so there is plenty of time to have a normal night with the girls.\u00a0 I make dinner as usual, we eat when hubby is home from work and then I go.\u00a0 And starting this week the class won\u2019t be until 8:00 so I\u2019ll even be able to help get the girls ready for bed before I go.<\/p>\n

Another night Honeybun\u00a0has her ballet class just before I teach so hubby picks up all the kids at the dance studio between classes and then is responsible for feeding them.\u00a0 One week Honeybun’s\u00a0school did a fundraiser at a restaurant so we got take away from there.\u00a0 The next week hubby took the kids out (but forgot to get me something) and this past week hubby cooked and remembered to make me some too! \u00a0I usually get home just in time to kiss the girls good night.<\/p>\n

The third night is the trickiest, though.\u00a0 I have to be at the studio before hubby usually leaves work and I\u2019m there until after the girls go to bed.\u00a0 I have an angel of a friend that has been watching the kids (along with her own two) for the time between when I leave and hubby gets home and luckily I\u2019ll have family in town in a few weeks to take over that job.\u00a0 Usually on those nights I\u2019ll make something in the crockpot for dinner.<\/p>\n

The trickiest part of all of it though, is Doodle.\u00a0 The night I work late I feed him before I go and am back when he needs to eat again.\u00a0 The night hubby picks them up at the studio I feed Doodle right before they leave and again I\u2019m home by the time he needs another feed but the 3rd<\/sup> night I\u2019m gone long enough that he needs a bottle and that has been quite a trying process for hubby. \u00a0Four months of boob only and Doodle has very little interest in anything else (other than my dinner maybe).<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a> We did a \u201ctrial\u201d run on the bottle before I left Doodle needing a feed for the first time and it was such a good thing we did!\u00a0 We ended up trying out 5 different bottles (including 1 sippy cup) before we found one he would even try to suck from.\u00a0 I made the mistake of not going with my first bottle choice (which is the one that ended up working!). \u00a0I thought it would be easier to use the bottles that I pump into so tried the two nipples and one sippy top I have for those bottles first and he HATED all of them.\u00a0 Then I tried the bottles from the pump I used with Honeybun\u00a0and he hated that too.\u00a0 He ended up tolerating the bottles that we used with Honeybun\u00a0though he mostly wanted to chew on the bottle and didn’t really get that he was supposed to suck.<\/p>\n

\"SONYNot every night has resulted in a successful bottle feed and I\u2019ve come home more than once to an overly stressed daddy and screaming baby. \u00a0The nights he sucks everyone is happy but he still tries to chew sometimes which makes the feed extremely lengthy which overly frustrates both boys. \u00a0Hopefully each day will get easier and worst case, family reinforcements will be here soon!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honeybun\u00a0is completing her 7th week of kindergarten and I\u2019m in my 5th week of my fall teaching schedule.\u00a0 I am now teaching three nights a week and Saturday mornings.\u00a0 The new schedule (in addition to Honeybun’s\u00a0school and homework schedule) is difficult mostly because it affects how our family has to eat. One night a week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life","category-work-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}