Archive | February, 2012

FIVE DANGERS OF HIDDEN VEGETABLES

28 Feb

How do you like my sensationalist Yahoo! News style headline? :)

Semi-related to the subject of baby-led weaning, I want to discuss a popular technique for getting fussy eaters to consume their vegetables: hiding them.

Cookbooks abound for the desperate parents of picky tots, providing recipes that cleverly camouflage puréed veggies into such kid-friendly fare as chocolate cake, breads, brownies and smoothies. The mom-turned-dietician authors of these books reassure parents that the fortified junk food is in fact healthy, due to some minute quantity of the latest celebrated micronutrient skillfully secreted inside a kid-approved bounty of processed carbohydrates.

One book, which I won’t name for fear of giving it more Google power, boasts (more…)

UPDATE: BABY-LED WEANING PROGRESS

26 Feb

Enjoying elk flank and broccolini at a restaurant.

Oliver is almost six and a half months old now, and we’ve been at the baby-led weaning game for about six weeks. Slowly but steadily, we are making progress.

Here is a list of foods he has tried: Beef Steaks • Chicken Thighs • Lamb Kebabs • Ground Bison • Elk Steak • Bacon • Sausage • Whole Egg (fried and scrambled) • Broccoli • Broccolini • Cauliflower • Asparagus • Bell Peppers • Tomatoes • Carrot • Salad Greens • Avocado • Apple • Pear • Strawberry • Watermelon • Cantaloupe

He has tried drinking: Broth • Coconut Milk • Mint Tea • Water

He loves (and I mean loves) (more…)

ONE FIT MOM WILL BE HOSTING A BLOG CARNIVAL!

23 Feb

If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, a blog carnival is an opportunity to gather a collection of posts on a particular topic from a variety of thematically similar bloggers. Since I know that many of my readers also have their own blogs, I thought it would be fun and interesting to share a bunch of different viewpoints in one place.

A carnival provides a venue for bloggers to gain more exposure to the larger community, and for existing readers to find new blogs to follow. (more…)

MOVING DAY

22 Feb

Back before Oliver was born, if someone had told me he would be sleeping in our room for the first six months of his life, I would have scoffed at them. After all of the parenting and sleep books we’d read, Oliver was obviously going to be sleeping through the night (12 hours worth) by three months old. The plan was for Oliver to spend the first six to eight weeks in a bassinet in our room, by which point he would be sleeping long enough stretches that we could move him into his own room, where he would happily sleep for seven to eight hours at a time.

Perhaps we were a bit naive in that regard… :) (more…)

SOME CHANGES

17 Feb

First things first: One Fit Mom has a new look! What do you think?

Over the next few weeks, I am going to be very busy organizing, re-categorizing, tagging, summarizing and even re-formatting some of my older posts to better fit the new theme. With 115 posts and counting, this is no small task.

If there are any readers who receive my posts by email, can you please comment below to let me know whether or not my posts get re-sent to you every time I edit or change them? I’m really hoping they don’t, as otherwise, I will have to re-consider exactly how I conduct this editing and organizing project!

Next up, I am planning to start adding some product reviews, to share my opinions on the baby gear and other related items that we have found to be useful (or in some cases, not so useful). Reviews will have (more…)

ONE WHOLE YEAR OF ONE FIT MOM!

15 Feb

Six months old already!

February 9th marked one year since the inception of this blog. Can you believe how quickly time has flown?! This time last year, I had just passed 15 weeks gestation and was lamenting my lack of baby belly; now, I have a six-month-old and am thrilled by my lack of baby belly.

To celebrate this milestone, I am going to recap my 10 most memorable moments from the blog’s first year.

10. Coming up with a comprehensive list of CrossFit modifications early on in the pregnancy… and then being astonished to find (more…)

SKIPPING THE SIPPY CUP

14 Feb

As I’ve previously discussed at length, we are following the baby-led weaning philosophy of introducing solids. With the introduction of solids comes the need to offer water with every meal, and ideally throughout the day as well. In the beginning, it is usually easiest and most convenient to provide water in a baby bottle.

We haven’t done much bottle feeding with Oliver, and when we started offering a bottle of water alongside his meals, he seemed disinterested. At first, I mistook his lack of interest for lack of thirst, but I have come to realize (through his outright refusal to take a bottle at daycare (more…)

HOW TO SURVIVE A STOMACH BUG… PALEO STYLE

7 Feb

Oliver started daycare last Thursday. One of my first thoughts upon entering the centre and seeing 11 other little vectors sharing toys and a single change table was, “Oliver is going to get sick. A lot.” At almost six months old, Oliver’s immune system is far from mature — and everything he touches goes into his mouth. He is still breastfed, of course, but breastfeeding has its limitations, especially when a baby is exposed to a pathogen to which his mother has not been exposed.

The daycare had a notice posted declaring that their recent gastrointestinal outbreak was officially over — that is to say, there had been no new infections within the preceding 48 hours. Apparently they failed to take into account (more…)

I’M BACK — WITH A COUPLE OF INTERESTING ARTICLES FOR DISCUSSION

2 Feb

Sorry for the unexpected blogging hiatus. We had a death in the family, so I have been busy and out of town. I will have my next post up in the next few days, but in the meantime, here are a couple of interesting articles for discussion.

1. A new study, published last week, says that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) may lessen the efficacy of certain vaccines. The study showed that children with higher levels of PFCs in their blood produced fewer antibodies after receiving vaccinations.

Are PFCs a contributing factor to the increased number of “booster shots” children receive in comparison with the previous generation?

Could PFCs also affect immune responses for conditions against which a child has not been vaccinated?  (more…)

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