The Annotated Ankle Biter

If I had it to do over again, I would give “baby wearing” another try.

When my daughter was an infant, I couldn’t wait until she was big enough to go in the black Baby Bjorn Original Carrier I had which I thought was very stylish.

I loved using the Baby Bjorn carrier at first, but I stopped using it for a few reasons. It was a bit akward at times. My daughter usually fell asleep in it when we went for a walk. So it was great for those times when she was having trouble sleeping. Except that I could never get her out of it without waking her up.

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Toddler meets yogurt with blueberries

It wasn’t until my daughter was about a year old that I formed any opinion about bibs and their usefulness. I used to think that the one that best matched her outfit was the one for the job.

About the same time that my daughter was able to walk a bit, I was afraid that she had lost her appetite. Then I tried letting her hold the spoon, and I realized that she wanted to feed herself. She also decided she didn’t want to wear her bibs anymore, and she would throw any bib she could rip off onto the floor. I’d received about 20 bibs as gifts by that time, and all but one fastened with Velcro which she could fling off with spectacular results.

When I started to notice tubs of stained bibs and clothes soaking all over my kitchen, and that my stress level would jump if I opened up her bib drawer to find that she was out of clean bibs, I realized that I was going about this the wrong way.
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