Monday, June 13, 2005
eating with baby
Dieting in the postpartum era. You got so darned heavy in the first place by listening to that "eating for two" nonsense. (They never said the second person was Refrigerator Perry.) Slim down and speed up baby's mealtimes by reversing the process. That's right, share all of your food with the baby (assuming he's on solids by now).
Your child will soon learn to scarf down the meat and macaroni in record time, leaving you with only vegetables and whatever yogurt or applesauce you can scrape off the floor.
Most nights you'll be too tired to remember to inhale a pint of ice cream right before bed. Nursing moms can justify this behavior anyway as necessary calcium intake.
There IS another way to look at this. "Screw the diet, I've earned this food!" Even if you could care less about your girth--though cat and baby alike have long since proven your tummy is the softest surface in the house--you may still wish to at least feign eating the same food as baby. After all, she wants to eat what you eat.
Keep steaks, lobster, Snickers bars, etc. hidden in an adjacent room and saunter over a dozen times during dinner to sneak "the good food."
The little one is accustomed to "highchair time" as code for your showering, doing laundry, or anything else best accomplished without junior's assistance. NEVER let kids see fruit, cake or cookies until they've eaten at least some of the meal.
Once they've gone snack, they never go back.
Your child will soon learn to scarf down the meat and macaroni in record time, leaving you with only vegetables and whatever yogurt or applesauce you can scrape off the floor.
Most nights you'll be too tired to remember to inhale a pint of ice cream right before bed. Nursing moms can justify this behavior anyway as necessary calcium intake.
There IS another way to look at this. "Screw the diet, I've earned this food!" Even if you could care less about your girth--though cat and baby alike have long since proven your tummy is the softest surface in the house--you may still wish to at least feign eating the same food as baby. After all, she wants to eat what you eat.
Keep steaks, lobster, Snickers bars, etc. hidden in an adjacent room and saunter over a dozen times during dinner to sneak "the good food."
The little one is accustomed to "highchair time" as code for your showering, doing laundry, or anything else best accomplished without junior's assistance. NEVER let kids see fruit, cake or cookies until they've eaten at least some of the meal.
Once they've gone snack, they never go back.
