Yeah what's so smart about a pigeon anyway?! I can only say I'm very proud of my baby! I'm amazed at his abilities!

Thanks for sharing Maddy. Totally agree with it. That's why on my baby's 7th month I started introducing meat and fish as well particularly salmon and tuna (good source of omega3 for baby's brain dev't) apart from vegetables and fruits and of course his milk.

Hi Winth,

At 6-7 months, it was all pureed veggies (carrots, pumpkin, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, green bean, parsnip, pea, spinach) and fruits (apple, banana, mango, peach, pear) then introduced finger foods and lumpy meals after that. Now, I practically give him food that we eat on the table. From 7 months, I've been giving him milk 3x - upon waking up, after his lunch and after dinner. This makes him eat more during lunch and dinner if I give it after. I sometimes give him snacks in-between. When he wakes up late in the morning (9am), I give him his bowl of cereal and fruit first then milk after.

Personally, it also helped me to give a pacifier at night during the early stages when he would still wake up. But he's not too attached to it. He sometimes likes it but sometimes don't. Now he sleeps with or without it.

Hope this helps.

I've read from Dr. Mercola's website (www.mercola.com) that dairy is indeed harmful to our bodies, can even cause cancer and other diseases because the ultimate source - the cow - is given different antibiotics and growth hormones that eventually transfer to humans.  I even read one cancer survivor doctor, who completely eliminated dairy in her diet and never since had any remission and claims that dairy is indeed the culprit why she had it in the first place. When I get to find her testimony and the studies she has made in my files I will post it.

With regard to giving milk to babies, this claim should apply too don't you think so? I just checked the milk of my baby and it says that it's CASEIN-DOMINANT and from the IAHP article sent by Nikky, casein is harmful. Now, I don't know whether to change my milk (ultimately it's still cow's milk though) or stop giving milk to my 14-month old baby and substitute with other calcium foods? I will be calling the manufacturer to ask about casein.

Oh well...I'm confused now...

Check out the video "The Happiest Toddler on the Block" by Dr. Harvey Karp. He gives strategies on how to stop tantrums and raise a happy, secure child. The video shows actual tantrums and his way of pacifying and then letting mom do it.

Thanks for sharing Shuki! Good stuff

With ths info, I'm more than motivated to teach my baby Math. We're doing division now...

Thanks a lot Elizabeth and Chris!

I got 7 right and 11 left. Says I'm more left-brained. Saw the woman spinning counter-clockiwse...Hmmmm

The book series "On Becoming Babywise" helped me put my baby to sleep.

We trained him to sleep in his own room at 4 months. He started sleeping through the night when he established his 3 solid meals a day at 7 months. Subsequently, I also dropped his night feed/early morning (2am). Since I was still breastfeeding at that time, I had to ask my husband to wake up and pat him to sleep when he would wake up in the middle of the night as my baby could 'smell' me. This took about 3 days of training and then he didn't wake up anymore (he must have figured that I won't be there to give him milk). From then on, my baby sleeps from 7pm-7am. He has 2 day naps of 1.5-2 hours each, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

The key learning for me is whenever he cries, I would just go in and pat him or stroke his back and say re-assuring words that would comfort him then I would leave. I would go back if his cry becomes distressed.

I'm very happy to have found Little Reader. My son just loves it! He can sight read after 2 months of showing him LR. My husband and I are just in awe with the way he recognizes words and pictures. Little Reader can be summed up with this:

A - musing
M - entally Stimulating
A - ppealing
Z - esty
I  - nnovative
N - ifty
G - reat!

Thank you for this wonderful software

How exciting KL! Looking forward to it Your Felicity is such a cutie

Thanks so much Elizabeth for sharing! It's great to hear from someone who has had success in Math. Hunter is a livng testimony that babies can learn Math with Mommy's love and gentle teaching Karma to you!!!

Elizabeth, do you check whether Hunter is able to know the answers after every 2 weeks of learning a particular set of equations? Or do you just randomly check after finishing all 2-weeks sets of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division? I know we are not supposed to "test" babies according to Doman. I'm sure you do it with Hunter in a very fun way?

Thanks for the reply Trinity Papa. It seems that it's really quite a challenge to get hold of Shichida materials as most are written in traditional Chinese and they only share the info by enrolling your child to their school. I wish they can also do what Doman is doing with books and DVDs apart from the courses they offer so they can reach a wider audience. Oh well...I guess those living in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan may just be fortunate to enrol their children in the Shichida class. 

Thanks for sharing Trinity Papa. Which Shichida books would you recommned and are they in Engish? Where can we buy them?