It all started with cinnamon apples (Or, How I Learned to Not Feed My Daughter Certain Things)

[caitxrawks]

So I was giving Joss her nighttime jar of baby food. It was a Beech Nut jar of cinnamon apples.

We had had a FABULOUS day. I drug her around in her Jumperoo while I cleaned the entire house. Sweeping and all. (Super Mom!!!)

We'd laughed about silly things. Like blinds. And comforters. And the Baby Bumblebee song.

But no.

The cinnamon apples just had go and RUIN EVERYTHING, DIDN'T YOU MR. CINNAMON APPLES!?

Yeah, you're dirty, dirty whore, Mr. Cinnamon Apples.

Anyway.

Joss apparently didn't like the taste of cinnamon. As soon as she swallowed the first spoonful, she started WAILING. Like red-faced, teary-eyed, bloody murder KILL ME NOW-type screaming.

I was like "What ze phook?"

I calmed her down and tried again. Maybe she had gotten too much in her mouth.

Same thing. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

*sigh*

I got up and went into the kitchen. I got a jar of green beans instead.

Mr. Green Beans is the next culprit.

You're a dirty whore too!

I started feeding her the green beans. She was okay for a little while, and I figured she had gotten over whatever had caused her to cry.

So I tried Mr. Cinnamon Apples again.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

*sigh*

I went back to the green beans. She got them ALL over herself.

On her tummy.

Her feet.

Her hands.

Her arms.

Her eyes.

Her hair.

Oh, and up her nose.

Yep, she stuck a big glob of green beans right up her nose.

She sucked that down and began wailing again.

After we finished the green beans, she stopped crying and burped. I was like, "Oh good, the nightmare is over."

Not even close, sister.

Joss puked up mouthfuls of green beans all over herself and the chair that I had JUST pulled out of the dryer.

You'd think I would have learned by now. But no. I'm an idiot.

I thought she was choking, so I grabbed her out of the swing (she can't sit in a high chair yet) and started banging her on the back. She puked some more all over the freshly swept and mopped wooden floor, and finally started crying again.

*sigh*

I went ahead and made her nighttime bottle and gave her some tylenol and her Zantac. I suctioned the green beans and crap out of her nose. I changed her diaper.

Oh, and she peed on me and my bed. Great.

I put on her nighttime sleeper and held her close for a little while. We had been through a lot in the past hour.

I fed her only about an ounce of her bottle before she passed out COLD.

And now I'm sitting here telling you fine women the story.

God, I'm tired.

[fairy74]

May. 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM

Hugs mama been there with my son it was bananas.....

[LaurenKaye29]

May. 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM

The same thing happened to Tonio a month ago. I fed him yogurt, beans, and formula. Not knowing I had fed him already, his dad fed him squash, more formula, and attempted to fead him beans. I think the beans stopped everything from going down because after the first bite of beans Masiel fed him, Tonio yacked everywhere! Lesson learned! :-))