Banana baby song

[ailbhe]

Linnea is asleep, and for those of you keeping tabs on how well I'm nourishing my baby, she has had no bananas today (Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today!) Those of you going "Huh?" will be interested to note that I was recently offered unsolicited advice here and I paid it the heed I usually do unsolicited advice - that is to say, I was indignant and infuriated at first, because I started to think "Wow, have I been feeding her too many bananas? What if she DIES in the NIGHT? someone's grandmother did, so my BABY might too! Onoes! Bananas KILL!" and then I recovered and was all like y'know "WHAT a drive-by mommying like WOW."

Only in English. Pardon me, I have no idea why I came over all funny, it could be because...

The baby is asleep! She went to sleep on her way home from the playground after dinner, at about 20:10, and stayed asleep when Rob laid her in her cot (fully clothed, we do NOT disturb sleeping babies in this house, though we do remove trailing bits of string and sharp knives). We are ecstatic. And a bit shocked.

I am scrumptious! It's like yummy, only refers to actual flavour as judged by infant. Today, Linnea wanted a lot of feeding, so I must be particularly tasty.

I wore my fabulous red shoes. I sloshed a bit of polish on them before going out because I let them get horribly worn down once before and I don't want to do that again. I should probably clean them properly with a leather-cleaner, then polish them again, but oof, the effort, no.

Still to come: proposed writing projects (oh, the irony!) and the desexualisation of mothers and why I am particularly annoyed by it.

Linnea just woke crying. Looks like that was a delayed afternoon nap, not a bedtime.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

note that she does say that "one a day is fine"

I haven't been keeping tabs, but you seem to mention mostly banana muffins (apart from that time in the shop on the way in to town), and I don't suppose she would eat that much banana in muffins without you going "waaaaaaay too much sugar"

I don't think it would occur to me to give anyone more than one a day, if only because they'd need to eat something *else*...

love

Julie
(who chose banana as her babies' first food)

Bananas

[ailbhe]

They're not a food, they're a WEAPON!

[barakta]

As a small child I ate bananas at a frightening rate. I believe it was one of my first favourite foods and any mention/picture/TV etc of bananas would send me off on my "Lalas" requests. My mum spent a lot of my early childhood explaining that I had already eaten ALL the bananas in the house and the shop was closed :)

Gotta love unsolicited advice of the scaremongering kind....

Re: Bananas

[thereyougothen.livejournal.com]

they are not a weapon, they're a LIFESAVER. N's record is i think 4 in a day. that's not bad. it's usually one for morning snack, and often another one at 3am when nothing else will get him back to sleep.

(and why is that that when bananas make me throw up, both my kids eat them with no ill effects?)

[heraldis.livejournal.com]

A quick look up to me implies that one can only overdose on bananananas if one has kidney problems, otherwise no sweat.

I shall check with the guru later in the week, but the human body is pretty good at dumping what it doesn't need!