Introducing baby to food is no simple task. You give baby a food from the first foods list. She eats that for three days- in addition to her nursing or formula. After three days, you add another food to her menu, and so on until you have all the first foods. Once she is an independent sitter, you move on to second foods, and so on with the developmental stages. Foods like beef and milk products are last foods. So, my daughter is on first foods: sweet potatoes, squash, prunes, peas, apple sauce- all low on the allergen chart and fairly easy to digest.
That said, let me share what happened. My grandmother was babysitting my daughter and her older cousin. While feeding older cousin- pureed vegetable beef stew, my daughter threw a fit. She wants hers, and she wants it now. So what does my grandmother do? She gives it to her- just a little. Do you have any idea what "just a little" can do to a 5 month old? Geez Luis. It's no wonder she had diarrhea that night. The only vegetable in veggie beef soup she has had is carrots. What if she was allergic to beef or onion? I would have taken her to the hospital and had no idea why she was sick.
I know. Grandma didn't do it on purpose. She wouldn't do anything to hurt her. Etc., etc. etc. But, she didn't stop to think and that could have really hurt my daughter. Sigh. I think I'm done now.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Job Status- Typical LAUSD
Typical LAUSD
In March 2009, I was given a RIF notice effective the last day of the school year. Early September 2009, I am rehired. I go immediately out onto maternity leave. Rather than find me a permanent position, I am pooled at Santee Ed. Complex- my school site from the previous school year. They are supposed to find me a position when I come back.
In mid-November, I go back to work. They don't have a permanent position for me somewhere, so I report to Santee every day. I am placed on Track B- which means I am supposed to be on vacation from March 3 to April 4. For a while I tutor to help kids prepare for the CAHSEE. After the CAHSEE, I have nothing to do on most days. March 1, I get to school and the secretary tells me I am not supposed to be there. So, I go and talk to my principal and he shows me this e-mail he got. It says I am supposed to be at a middle school in East L.A. But, nobody told me. He talks to the HR guy and the HR guy says to "hold off on it for now." What the heck does that mean? Where am I supposed to be working? Am I supposed to be going off-track? Where do I go when I go back to work? The worst part is that they could call me at any given time and tell me that I need to report to another school site the next day.
Sigh. I hate it when everything is up in the air.
In March 2009, I was given a RIF notice effective the last day of the school year. Early September 2009, I am rehired. I go immediately out onto maternity leave. Rather than find me a permanent position, I am pooled at Santee Ed. Complex- my school site from the previous school year. They are supposed to find me a position when I come back.
In mid-November, I go back to work. They don't have a permanent position for me somewhere, so I report to Santee every day. I am placed on Track B- which means I am supposed to be on vacation from March 3 to April 4. For a while I tutor to help kids prepare for the CAHSEE. After the CAHSEE, I have nothing to do on most days. March 1, I get to school and the secretary tells me I am not supposed to be there. So, I go and talk to my principal and he shows me this e-mail he got. It says I am supposed to be at a middle school in East L.A. But, nobody told me. He talks to the HR guy and the HR guy says to "hold off on it for now." What the heck does that mean? Where am I supposed to be working? Am I supposed to be going off-track? Where do I go when I go back to work? The worst part is that they could call me at any given time and tell me that I need to report to another school site the next day.
Sigh. I hate it when everything is up in the air.
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