Baby's First Meal! Grace started solid foods this week. We started with a little rice cereal mixed with a lot of breast milk. She spit most of it out at first but now she is starting to get it and swallows most of it. This has to be the most confusing developmental milestone we have reached so far. There is so much conflicting information out there: start as early as 4 months, wait until 6 months, introduce cereal for a month, a week, four days. Introduce veretables before fruits, fruits before veggies, buy only organic, organic is a waste of money. Me being the huge nerd I am have to read an entire book on the subject called
Super Baby Food. I'm not kidding 574 pages on baby food. Really, do you need a Phd to figure out how to feed your kid?
So here is the plan. Cereal for a month while we introduce formula (more on that later). Then sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, bananas, avacado, and applesauce. Apparently is is better to start with veggies and then fruits but the verdict is still out on this one too. Any advice?
Grace also refuses to take formula. Little miss drama queen believes that it is crap and prefers the stuff that comes out of the boob. Not that I blame her, I tasted it and it doesn't taste any better than it smells. We tried Nutraminagen first becasue she is sensitive to when I drink milk and it is hypoallergenic and milk protein free. She objected quite loudly to that one but it was also on Christmas when she was overtired and starving. Yesterday we tried Similac Advance. She took about an ounce before making a face and refusing any more. Today my mom mixed one ounce formula with 4 ounces breast milk to get her used to the taste. She broke out it hives. From ONE ounce! So now we are going to try the soy formula and hope she gets used to the taste before I go to California for 4 days and leave her with daddy and grandma.
Baby's First Meal! Grace started solid foods this week. We started with a little rice cereal mixed with a lot of breast milk. She spit most of it out at first but now she is starting to get it and swallows most of it. This has to be the most confusing developmental milestone we have reached so far. There is so much conflicting information out there: start as early as 4 months, wait until 6 months, introduce cereal for a month, a week, four days. Introduce veretables before fruits, fruits before veggies, buy only organic, organic is a waste of money. Me being the huge nerd I am have to read an entire book on the subject called Super Baby Food. I'm not kidding 574 pages on baby food. Really, do you need a Phd to figure out how to feed your kid?
So here is the plan. Cereal for a month while we introduce formula (more on that later). Then sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, bananas, avacado, and applesauce. Apparently is is better to start with veggies and then fruits but the verdict is still out on this one too. Any advice?
Grace also refuses to take formula. Little miss drama queen believes that it is crap and prefers the stuff that comes out of the boob. Not that I blame her, I tasted it and it doesn't taste any better than it smells. We tried Nutraminagen first becasue she is sensitive to when I drink milk and it is hypoallergenic and milk protein free. She objected quite loudly to that one but it was also on Christmas when she was overtired and starving. Yesterday we tried Similac Advance. She took about an ounce before making a face and refusing any more. Today my mom mixed one ounce formula with 4 ounces breast milk to get her used to the taste. She broke out it hives. From ONE ounce! So now we are going to try the soy formula and hope she gets used to the taste before I go to California for 4 days and leave her with daddy and grandma.
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