Dinner. Dishwashing. Christmas cookies. And … cue the chaos!
My days were going something like this:
Hold baby on hip and collect bowls one-handed. Perform world record juggling act that will never be recorded.
Switch baby to other hip and get ingredients from the pantry. Take two trips because I can’t carry them all at once.
Put baby in bouncy seat to rummage through freezer.
Soothe baby’s crying. Back to the freezer. Pick baby back up.
Attempt to hold baby while cracking eggs into bowl. Wipe up spilled egg.
Hold baby and bowl with one hand while stirring with other. Wipe up spilled batter.
Put baby down to spoon doughballs onto cookie sheets. Put baby’s binky back in about eighty-seven times.
And on. And on. Cookie baking was quickly becoming a world-class mess. And dinner prep was taking forever and it was just quesadillas!
I needed a new recipe for cooking with a baby in the house!
I was missing the main ingredient – my baby carrier!
So simple. Put baby in the Ergo.
Use two hands to collect ingredients! Mix batter. Sprinkle quesadillas with cheese and shredded chicken.
Talk to baby while reading recipes, spooning batter into pans, and rinsing dirty dishes!
I do, however, put baby down to put pans into the oven or grill my quesadillas.
Best of all, my baby watches as I prepare a variety of dishes, talking him through each one. Who knows if he will develop a wider taste palette, or an interest in culinary arts from early exposure?
Whatever the case, time with a calm baby and a speedy dinner on the table – delicious! (Not to mention those cookies I smell!).
Cut Out Cookies
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
Directions:
How do you babywear in the kitchen?
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Gosh! I babywear whenever I can! I take care of our backyard chicken flock and meat rabbits in the cold mornings, my wee one strapped to my chest and nestled under my jacket. Cooking hasn't been as hard while wearing, but the added girth from babywearing reminds me of what I was unable to do in the kitchen while pregnant - washing dishes! But really, the best part of babywearing while cooking? Being able to nurse on demand, hands free, and as a FTM, THAT is priceless!
Truthfully I have never been able to master nursing while babywearing - but my babies are very fussy/active nursers who don't like to be "contained" :) I'm lucky they let me babywear them at all! haha!
I can SO relate! My husband was working on Thanksgiving morning (we're up in Canada, but celebrated American Thanksgiving for my sake!), so I was prepping the turkey, cubing the bread for the stuffing, chopping veggies, and trying to get an apple pie ready, with my cranky, clingy 13 month old hugging my knees, crying to be picked up... I grabbed my Ergo, and threw her on my back (so her little hands wouldn't be grabbing for everything) and went to work! Baby being 'held' + Mommy having free hands = Happy Thanksgiving to all!