jdhmnovel Chapter 214 Daily life of raising a baby
Chapter 214 Daily life of raising a baby
It took almost two months to build Lezai's indoor playground. By then, the weather was getting colder.
Lezai is already more than seven months old. He can stand up and walk with the help of something, and he is even more dependent on human care.
When a baby is just born, he cannot roll over or move, so adults can safely put him on the bed because he will not fall down anyway.
But once the baby learns to roll over, he may fall off the bed, and at this time, a fence must be installed on the bed.
When he learns to sit and stand with support, the fence is no longer safe. He can stand up with the support of the fence, but he may also lean his head down and fall out of the fence. Babies are naturally a little top-heavy.
Many children are also very restless when sleeping. They may toss and turn when sleeping. No matter how big the bed is, it is not enough for them to move around. If there is no restraint, it is entirely possible for them to sleep from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed, from lying upright to lying sideways. They will kick when they raise their legs and hit when they wave their hands. Sleeping with a baby is actually a little risky.
Besides, which child has not experienced falling to the ground while falling asleep? I heard that some children fell to the ground and continued to sleep.
He had kicked Lezi's crib and broke it. So he had replaced it with a large bed with fences on all four sides. With this large bed in place, Yunxi's room felt a bit cramped.
After the playground was repaired, Yun Xi went in to check it to make sure there were no sharp objects inside that would hurt the children.
Then, he put Lezai in.
The baby climbed up and down and started exploring on his own.
The first time Lezai came down the slide, he went down headfirst.
The nurse and maidservants were terrified, but Yun Xi was not worried. Children were not stupid, they all had excellent survival instincts, and after Le Zai came down, he used his little hands to support the ground, so he didn't hit his head at all.
But seeing that Chunyu was almost crying with fear, Yunxi felt a little embarrassed, so she had to go down and demonstrate it to Lezi herself, took him sliding once, and helped him slide down again while sitting there.
Lezai performed the trick twice, indicating that he had mastered his mother's way of playing. Then, he began to explore on his own. He slid forward, backward, and lying down, and had a lot of fun.
After a long time, Chunyu and the others became numb.
Lezi particularly likes one way of playing, climbing up from the bottom of the slide. After climbing two steps, he would slide down and start all over again. He would keep trying despite repeated failures.
Iron Boy was exhausted. He sat in the baby chair and fell asleep while eating.
He dozed off while eating. After a few seconds of sleep, he opened his eyes, stuffed a piece of food into his mouth, chewed it, and fell asleep again.
Yun Xi was almost dying of laughter at his words. She tapped the system: "Record it for me quickly. I'll draw this scene when I have time and show it to him when he grows up. Hahaha."
system:"……"
The bad tastes of parents all over the world are similar. Poor baby, even the system brother can't save you. I rely on your mother for infrastructure construction.
Yun Xi smiled for a while, then was worried that Lezi would choke while eating like this, so she woke him up and asked him to chew and swallow all the food in his mouth before she coaxed the child back to sleep.
This time, Lezi slept very soundly. His sleep quality was much better than usual, and the sleep time was also longer. He slept for an hour and a half, which is three hours in total.
It seems that if you want to make your baby easier to take care of, you still have to find a way to consume their energy and avoid the situation where "charging for half an hour and then standing by for a whole day" occurs.
While Lezai was sleeping, Yun Xi originally wanted to start drawing the portrait, but after looking at the quality of the paper, she decided to give up and wait a little longer.
After Lezai woke up, he cried out in hunger. He first leaned on Yunxi to drink milk, and then pointed to the kitchen and asked Yunxi to cook for him.
Yun Xi: "...Don't call me Lezai anymore. Call me piglet instead. Eat and sleep, sleep and eat."
Lezai was unhappy and twisted and turned in Yunxi's arms. He blurted out "Mom" in excitement.
Yun Xi: "Oh, you can call mom now. If you call me mom again, you will still be Lezai, not a piglet."
"Mother, mother, mother."
Yun Xi: "..."
She had a bad feeling that she would never have peace in the future.
But now she still fulfilled her promise, kissed Lezi's chubby face, and said, "Okay, okay, you are mommy's little darling, I love you the most."
Le Zai was happy, and realized that Yun Xi liked to hear him calling her "mother", so he started to call her non-stop. Moreover, he didn't just call her, he needed you to respond to him. When he called her "mother", Yun Xi had to respond with "hey". Otherwise, he would hold Yun Xi's face with his chubby hands, look at her very seriously, and indicate that she had to agree.
Finally, Yun Xi threw the child to Chun Yu and fled.
After Lezai turned seven months old, basically all foods were open to him.
Yun Xi made him a wooden chair modeled after the baby dining chairs of later generations. She put him on it every time he ate, and prepared some food that was suitable for the baby to hold and let him eat by himself.
For example, steamed sweet potato strips, vegetables and meat chopped together to make meatballs, noodles in various shapes, without soup, can all be placed on a plate and eaten by him with his hands.
This is Lezai's favorite time. He can sit on the dining chair for a long time. He picks up food one by one and puts it into his mouth. He is very happy.
Babies like to explore the world with their fingers and mouths. The reason they like to put everything they can get into their mouths and bite it is that they are exploring the world with their mouths.
If this desire to explore can be satisfied through independent eating, it can effectively prevent them from putting other things in their mouths, and to a certain extent, it can also prevent them from sucking their fingers.
Self-eating is a gradual process. Yun Xi gave him finger food at the beginning. After he got used to it, she taught him to use a spoon, so that he could eat porridge and wontons by himself.
But for parents who are obsessed with cleanliness and cannot tolerate any mess, feeding themselves is a big challenge, of course, this challenge is for parents. Because no matter how good the baby is, they often drop food everywhere, and their hands and faces have to be washed after eating. After they are full, they will start to play with the food, breaking it apart, crushing it, or smacking it with their little hands.
If parents want to avoid the subsequent confusion, they should take the baby away from the table when he has almost finished eating.
Yun Xi doesn't care, so after Lezai is full, he will play with his food for a while in the baby chair to satisfy his desire to explore.
The first time Mu Sheng saw Le Zai eating like this, he was shocked. Such a young child eating by himself? Is he eating like this? It seems that he dropped more than he ate.
He said to Yun Xi: "Isn't this bad?"
"What's wrong?"
“Waste of food?”
"Very little of it fell on the ground, but Lezi picked up and ate the little that fell on his body. He would put on a clean overalls before every meal."
"waste time?"
"A baby's time is meant to be wasted. He's always looking for things to do to pass the time."
"You're all dirty from eating?"
"Just wash it, it's not a big deal."
Mu Sheng felt that it was not right, but after thinking about it, he felt that what Yun Xi said made sense, and it seemed that it was really no big deal. Even if the food was messy, after washing it after leaving the table, it would be a clean child again.
Mu Sheng was persuaded in a daze. From wanting to feed him himself at first, he could just sit aside and watch calmly later.
He discovered that Lezai had preferences for food while eating.
For food he didn't like, he would eat very slowly, very slowly, leaning back on the back of the dining chair, with one of his feet raised, chewing the food he didn't like, with a look of despair on his face. Occasionally, he would pat the table to attract Yun Xi's attention and want her to bring him some other food. But Yun Xi pretended not to understand and didn't respond at all. He would lean back and continue to eat his tasteless meal.
One time he was chewing a piece of vegetable over and over again. The meal was over, and he had finished eating everything else, but the vegetable was still there!
When he sees something he likes, he sits up straight with a smile on his face, and his little hands are not idle either, constantly putting it into his mouth.
Mu Sheng thought it was interesting to watch children eat.
Not only did he find it interesting, but later on, the whole family knew that Lezai ate by himself, and they all came to watch, even the old general and the old lady came to watch and comment on it.
Fortunately, the child is mentally strong and still eats happily even when being stared at.
The child made rapid progress. After a few days, Lezai rarely dropped food.
Yun Xi started to feed him the thick porridge with a spoon again. At first, she took half a spoonful and handed it to Lezi, who then put it in his mouth. Gradually, she let Lezi take the spoon and eat it himself.
At first, he couldn't grasp the right amount of food. Sometimes he would fill a large spoonful, eat half and leave the other half. Yun Xi would demonstrate it a few more times, and he gradually got the hang of it. By the time he was one year old, Lezai was already very good at eating by himself.