So I tried putting the baby food in a bottle with a couple ounces of formula...and she ate it up!!! And she has every time, so I know she likes the baby food and she can handle it the little turd just doesn't like the spoon! I've also tried a couple times since then to feed her with a spoon and she'll take one or two bites then refuse to eat it but then minutes later will finish it all in a bottle. I think we're going to have hell when we have to wean her off of that thing.
We took a trip to the dr. last week because we had "hand, foot, and mouth disease" going around at the daycare (only a couple kids actually had it). But we sent a kid home because they had sores all in their mouth and a little while later the mom called and said they had the virus. So then we're checking kids out like crazy looking for sores in their mouth or a rash on their hands or feet, and the other symptoms were drooling and loss of appetite. When Jennifer and I get done checking kids I sit back down in the office and all of a sudden I just say "Oh crap!" Korbyn has been drooling like crazy the past couple of days and she has not finished a bottle, we thought she was just teething. So when I go back in her room to check her they actually tell me that she has a rash all over her hands and her stomach! We were able to get in to the dr. that same afternoon and he said she doesn't have the hfm disease but she has a strain of the virus called herpangina. Well he must have seen the horror streak across my face when he uttered that name because he looked at me and then quickly said "no, no, it's ok, it has nothing to do with herpes or her vagina!" I said "ok, well that's a really awful name!!!" He said unless she starts running a fever she's fine, and the worst that will happen with her is she may get an extremely sore throat, he said it'll be so sore to just give her motrin around the clock and DON'T let 6 hours go by because she will be in pain if you do! But thankfully she never got fussy or a fever. Then I told him that she will not eat baby food and what should I do, he said don't worry about it. He said there are probably more babies that don't like to eat baby food than do. He said just to give her as much table food as she can handle...YAY! I was actually really surprised that he said that, of course limiting it to all those foods they can't have until they're a year. So I'm going to continue to give her baby food in her bottle but now I put her in her high chair at home with whatever veggies and anything else she can eat and she loves it! She can actually pick the food up and put it in her mouth now so it's fun for her to feed herself. I even took the menus at daycare and highlighted all the food she can have. Yesterday her teacher asked if she could eat a graham cracker and I was like "NO! She'll choke on it!" Well she eventually convinced me otherwise and the little girl ate a half of one and she would scream if her teacher wouldn't give her more soon enough! I'm glad that she can eat table food now, it makes it SO much easier! Oh, and when we went to the dr. Korbyn weighed 20 lbs!!! She's the size of a one year old!
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