Ladies and gentlemen... my son, the (unwitting) spokesman!As you can tell by the picture above, we've also started letting B.Max try his hand (literally) at drinking from a cup. He LOVES it! Sure... most of the water cascades down his chin after every enthusiastic gulp, but that's half the fun!
<-- Saturday marked the day Steve and I started trying Bruce out on rice cereal. Lauded for its gentle-on-the-stomach properties for "first foods", we figured it was a safe place to start. As the packaging recommends, we started with just a tablespoon of cereal (and added formula), which he seriously couldn't get enough of. I had found a great, low-cost, convertible booster seat at Babies-R-Us, and he seems to do really well with it.
We would be mid-scoop, getting more cereal on the spoon, and be met with a mixture of joy (see right), or ferocious yelling for what we assumed was more mush. Sweet boy... it's like we don't feed him or something!
This afternoon, I tried making the goop a bit thicker - instead of the runny, soupy mess we had started out with, I thought it would be fun to try him on something a little more substantial. Again - he loved it! It was all I could do to keep up with him... and pray that he didn't choke! My son can seriously wolf-down his chow!The only down side to starting solids is that my father-in-law now thinks that Bruce is ready for sucking on watermelon and other "harmless" fruits. When I was at Bruce's 4-month checkup, our doctor recommended starting him on rice cereal, then moving on to oatmeal, then veggies and/or meat, and THEN fruits. I guess - and this makes sense, actually - that babies will start to just prefer the sweet taste of fruit and will reject or lose interest in things that don't taste as sweet!
My little man is growing up! Just 10 more days until he's 5 months old. I'm still amazed he's mine.
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Wow, your doctor recommended starting solids before 6 months? Crazy! We didn't start until after 6 months because I thought that's what current research says. Everyone does it so different! We actually started with fruits, and skipped purees and cereal :)
ReplyDeleteYep; since he had doubled his birth weight, was eating over 32 ounces a day, and could hold his head up on his own (well, he could do that since he was 1 week old), she said to go ahead - if he was interested. And he was! Plus, babies that have doubled their birth weight so soon need the extra iron that they can't get from Mommy or formula alone at that point. We didn't want to start him on fruits first because we didn't want him to prefer sweets to veggies and meats right away, so we'll see how that goes!
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