{"id":48709,"date":"2022-04-09T23:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48709"},"modified":"2022-04-09T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:09:05","slug":"dad-brog-083-my-child-is-like-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48709","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#083): My child is like the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#2 has entered the stage in life in which we have introduced solid foods into her diet, and are easing her into the world of food that\u2019s available to the world.\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to expose her to a wide gamut of flavors and all the food groups, as well as testing for allergies and sensitivities and hoping that she\u2019ll not have all of dad\u2019s dietary weaknesses like her big sister has inherited (lactose, eggs).<\/span><\/p>\n

As hoped, it is going as well as it did with my first child, and #2 is eating most things without that much difficulty.\u00a0 She\u2019s clearly not a fan of tart and sour flavors, hopefully this will pass, but anything with a degree of tart to its flavor profile hasn\u2019t gone over as well as some of the other things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One critical win that we seemed to have gotten is that she doesn\u2019t seem to be as nearly sensitive to eggs like her sister is, or her dad is.\u00a0 With bated breath, we\u2019ve given her egg whites to which she\u2019s been able to digest and not result in projectile vomit and diarrhea, but I did notice that she did get a little bit of skin issues where the egg might have touched around her mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n

But overall though, so far so good.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019d think though, with as many calories and solid food that she\u2019s consuming, and increasing on a gradual basis, the need for mother\u2019s milk would dwindle, right?\u00a0 Prior to solid foods, she was consuming nearly 30 ounces of breast milk a day which is roughly around 600 calories.\u00a0 Now that we\u2019ve introduced solids, we\u2019re not micromanaging her exact caloric intake, but she\u2019s probably getting close to 400 calories a day on solids alone, independent of milk consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, growing babies need to eat to grow, but mythical wife and I thought that her need for milk would take a step back with those calories perhaps being replaced by actual solid food.<\/span><\/p>\n

NOPE.<\/span><\/p>\n

#2 is still slamming 30 oz of milk a day, and by god almighty if she doesn\u2019t get her 30 oz of milk by the day\u2019s end, it is absolute hell for us to pay, by virtue of repeatedly waking up and screaming bloody murder until the milk debt of the day is paid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like today, she\u2019s eaten a pancake, a slice of turkey, cheddar, grapes, grilled chicken and various fruits.\u00a0 More than she\u2019s eaten in previous days.\u00a0 As the day was winding down, the milk count on the day was closer to 15 oz than it was 30, but her temperament hadn\u2019t really been altered, and she was in pretty good spirits throughout her awake time.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time I\u2019m writing this, she\u2019s woken up three times, and has not gone back down without another bottle.\u00a0 Just like that, she\u2019s back up to 27 oz, and she\u2019ll be ripe and ready for her 30 by the time we do our final nightcap bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n

So basically, she\u2019s like the IRS when she doesn\u2019t get her 30 oz on the day.\u00a0 She will go to the ends of the earth to make your life hell and basically hold you and your time hostage until the milk debts are paid off.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#2 has entered the stage in life in which we have introduced solid foods into her diet, and are easing her into the world of food that\u2019s available to the world.\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to expose her to a wide gamut of flavors and all the food groups, as well as testing for allergies and sensitivities … Continue reading Dad Brog (#083): My child is like the IRS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,56,192,83],"class_list":["post-48709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-food","tag-kids","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48711,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48709\/revisions\/48711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}