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well it is her baby, let her be the mom. you can offer advice, but dont try to do her job. when i first had my baby every one kept telling me things about when they had kids, and it was all old info that has been changed. i know its a different deal here, but think about if it was you, you wouldnt like someone telling you how to do everything with your baby. i would say skip the lil things and remind her of the big things that could really endanger the child ie sleeping on the belly

Are you talking about the baby being swaddled?

I don’t think swaddling does any harm. Belly sleep is a risk factor for SIDS but swaddling should be fine.

Honestly unless she is risking the babies life (which she is not) I woudl not say anything as you will cause major problems.

Be supportive of mom. She will parent her way to her child. Save advice until either asked or it becomes an endangerment issue.

I think you need to understand the difference between offering tips and advice and demanding they be accepted and implemented.
As with any new thing we do in life those that have experience offer advice. However these bits of information come from many people (all with good intentions) and it is up to the person doing the learning to decide what is important to them.

Keep up the good work Grandma but let the new parents decide.

we have only baby proofed a few things, so i spend ALL DAY keeping the house safe from my 13mth old son!
He’s into EVERYTHING from the toilet to the kitchen sink.

my son is one next week and not walking yet so i havent gotten the full on baby proof stage yet…but…

i’ve had to baby proof the tap spout in the bath

baracade the small glass cabinet (for wine glasses) i just surrounded it by these baby couches we have and he cant move them

the blinds!! and curtains!! cant baby proof them but he loves them

and i’ve had to put our very big and long coffee table right in front of the tv so he cant touch that either!

but i’m constantly chasing after him, i’m scared he’ll pull a kitchen chair on himself, but i cant get rid of them – just have to have eyes like a hawk!!

perks of motherhood lol

Me and my hubby decided we weren’t going to baby proof much, we did the chemicals under the kitchen and bathroom sinks, and covered outlets, and I eventually will create some sort of borders thingy to put in front of our entertainment centers. But other than that, we don’t want to bring up our son in a false sense of security. He needs to know he’s not allowed to do things and if he does he can get hurt. The best way to learn something is from your own experience. If he wants to get into my bookcases, he can, but he’s going to very well be helping me put everything back. Only the things I can see being fatal, we’ve baby proofed. I’m sure once he gets older, I’ll soften up and do more.(He’s only 5 months and just starting to crawl) It’s funny how you have your visions of how you’d like to parent, but you always do a little differently. Hahaha

The baby in your pic is such a cutie.

I can’t keep anything on the ground. I mean, seriously, I feel like I have a puppy… Anything left on the ground, she will get to and destroy.

For instance, she’s colored the walls with lipstick, colored the leather sofas with white deodorant, put a number of things in the toilet, and she just tries to eat anything and everything… She also recently broke our TV remote, which was her favorite “toy”… haha

So, mostly I’ve just had to pile everything on the table and TV, etc. She’s not even walking yet (10 months), so it’ll be exciting once that happens.

Baby born in USA, no matter where the parents are from, is an automatic citizen.

Unless you do the right thing and register your child in your country, since you are only a visitor here.

It doesn’t matter who the baby in question’s parents are or where they are from. If the baby is born in America, it is an American citizen and is allowed all the rights all other american born children are.

Yes, the baby is an American citizen…you need to be very careful with that American birth certificate, and you should get the baby an American passport. You will also need to get the baby a passport to your home country. You wil need that when it is time to return to your country.

A baby born in the U.S. is an automatic citizen…however, the parents are not, and it’s sometimes hard to establish dual-citizenship for the child, so they may end up renouncing it.

As soon as my little one was eating the 2 stage foods…I gave her the Gerber beef and what not. I don’t think there is anything wrong with giving it to her now.

Gerber makes it in 2nd stage foods for a reason…if it wasn’t good for them…why would they make it for that stage? I trust Gerber for the most part.

If you’re aware you might as well feed your baby fish&chips with chocolate cake for dinner.

She’s too young for meat yet.

I never did the baby meats. They looked too gross to me. I just cooked some meat and cut it up into minced pieces. For example I crock potted a turkey breast. I did not start until closer to 8 months for meat. Veggies and fruit was started around 6 months.

I would ask your ped.

When my baby was little (4-12 months) I used the “Super baby food book” to make all my own baby food. So, my baby was eating all kinds of veges and fruits and such before she was “supposed” to!! My daughter personally didn’t like meat, and still doesn’t – so I never really fed her much of that!!

Good Luck S

Well as for the “no comments” on the not sopposed to feed them thing…its kind of part of the question…generally your “not sopposed” to feed babys even cereal untill six months, but you know that. You feed your baby early for whatever reason early…but you did it because you thought it was what was best or what was needed. YOU are that babys mommy, only you know when he/she is ready. If the baby handles stage two food well I dont see why it would be an unreasonable jump…but I just woldnt do it myself. Im too parinoid about choking.