She’s eating solids, relatively speaking… (5 1/2 months)
Last week my order from Barnes & Noble (thanks Nora!) came in and along with a number of books for Quinn, I got a book for myself — well for me to read and impress upon Quinn. During one of her naps, I flipped to the section titled: “Signs Of Readiness for Solid Foods”. I carefully read all 12 signs which lead me to YES, GIVE YOUR DAUGHTER SOMETHING OTHER THAN BREAST MILK, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD ALREADY.
I was perfectly content waiting another couple of weeks before we say goodbye to the pleasantries of breastmilk baby poop, and say hello to the hell of solid food poops, however it’s not really about me… but about our little 17 pounds of love.
There are actually a number of different “first” foods to choose from, at least according to the Super Baby Food book — I could choose the standard which is this. Or we could go a little crazy and feed her this or even this. I ended up going with the ol’ standby mostly because rice cereal can be mixed with breast milk and I’ve got a load of it in the freezer that I need to use up.
So a couple of days ago we took the plunge and fed her. As she saw the spoon come close to her mouth she opened wide – because, ummm this girl will put ANYTHING in her mouth. However, once the spoon entered her mouth and left her the tastiness of rice cereal and breast milk, her face became ver concerned — as noted in the photo above. The picture above was taken as she took that first bite of food. The feeding went pretty well and overall more food ended up in her mouth rather than on her face.
Oh yeah, and the other up-side to rice cereal is that it’s slowly initiating us into the club of “solid-food-poopy-diapers”. Cheers.
Good luck,with the new adventure,I did’t start feeding u kids till u were 1 year old,I guess I was the lucky one,good babies very content with jst breast milk..Hat’s off to u chrissy,I’m very proud of u,for ur bravery..Lv mom from montana
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