{"id":2302,"date":"2008-04-03T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:18:36","slug":"forward-and-backward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/04\/03\/forward-and-backward\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward and Backward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bean is working very hard to crawl. In her attempts to raise her bottom and get to her hands and knees, she does a good job traveling <em>backward<\/em>, which frustrates her, because it puts distance between her and the object she&#8217;s trying to reach. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\".<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2381747178\/\" title=\"working hard to crawl by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3224\/2381747178_4b9094d282.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"working hard to crawl\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>But sometimes she gets to where she wants to go. She&#8217;s fascinated by zippers and very determined to figure out how they work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2385856998\/\" title=\"fascinating! by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2016\/2385856998_36144eaa4c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"fascinating!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In my eagerness to introduce solids, I gave Bean some Stage 1 (well-ground) chicken (commercially prepared baby food). It seems she may have an intolerance at this point. She&#8217;s had five poops today and a rash has begun on her bottom. This is similar to when we attempted to transition from hypo-allergenic to regular formula in December. However, she had only one day&#8217;s exposure, so I caught it quickly. The doctor recommended to hold off on meat proteins for a couple more months. She also said she often wonders about what&#8217;s in the jars; even though the ingredients say, for example, <em>chicken and chicken broth<\/em>, she wonders if there might be preservatives in there that can irritate. So until the reaction clears up, we&#8217;re sticking with peas and brown rice, oat cereal, rice cereal, carrots (not a lot), applesauce, and bananas. Then I&#8217;ll continue to introduce one new vegetable at a time and over a period of four days to see. I really don&#8217;t want to deal with a lot of food sensivities and allergies, but unfortunately I might just need to accept this possibility; Husband&#8217;s got family members who are allergic to pork, beef, tomatoes, yeast, oranges, milk (and some simply have a lactose intolerance). Still, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll find <em>something<\/em> to feed her!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2384403080\/\" title=\"we do feed her, honest! by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2298\/2384403080_0d18d1b3ea.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"we do feed her, honest!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bean is working very hard to crawl. In her attempts to raise her bottom and get to her hands and knees, she does a good job traveling backward, which frustrates her, because it puts distance between her and the object she&#8217;s trying to reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13831,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/13831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}