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First Solids!

11/12/2010

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Yes, today is 1 day shy of Luna's 6 month birthday and we decided to try solids for the first time since she is now about 6 months old. Todd has to work tomorrow so we decided to start solids 1 day early so he could help out.  We wanted to go by the breastfeeding recommendations and our doctor's, who recommends starting her first solid, rice cereal, at 6 months.  We definitely think she is ready because the past few weeks she has been eyeing my food and watching me eat my cereal every morning and grabbing at the bowl.  We were told that starting too early, like at 4 months, can disrupt their digestive system, since it is not developed yet at that age and they don't have digestive enzymes, plus it can cause allergies. We weren't in any hurry anyway. We want to savor her baby days as long as possible, because we all know she will soon be a teenager in no time and wishing she was still cuddling in our laps :)


So we started her out in the Bumbo since she is not quite able to sit up in her high chair and we strapped on her bib and she was ready!  I used the Earth's Best Rice cereal and added some breastmilk to it. So I came at her with the baby spoon and she took it well at first and then kind of made a few turned up nose kind of faces but continued to swallow it.  She was like, 'this is what I was wanting? hmm, I think I will stick to breastmilk!' But all in all I think she took it well!  In a couple of days we will start the veggies with our new Beaba Baby Food cooker.
Todd was off work today so we headed to Northpark and he witnessed a Baby Bounce Class and saw how much Luna loves looking at the other babies.  There were 2 other dads there with their kids so he didn't feel too much like Mr. Mom :)


We then stopped by our friends down the street, Michelle and Brad Miller to welcome them home with their new baby Quinn!  She is such a cutie and we quickly forgot how little they are at birth, so tiny!  After that we headed to a family dinner at Mint and Luna napped through most of it. Then another rice cereal feeding- super short and her mouth was clamped down this time! I am thinking she was just tired, because we gave her a bath and she was asleep fast after that. Oh and have I mentioned that she still goes to bed around 7-7:30pm? but since the time changed she is waking up at 6-6:30am!! Oh well, she stays up for about an hour and then goes back down and I usually nap with her to catch up :)


SO I forgot to take a picture of Luna during her first feeding as I was videotaping it with our camera and iPhone so I failed to capture a cute pic, but I will get another one tomorrow.  Here is the video clip I got:
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