1st "Solid" Food

Yay! We finally made it to the pediatrician to talk to her about getting Kayla on solid foods. She said to start her on rice cereal once a day (and also said that she was waking up in the middle of the night b/c she's not getting enough food) so we're going to feed her the cereal at night and see if that works. Tonight, because I kept her out at Applebees with my new friend too late, she had a late nap - around 7:55 - so we started her feeding at 8:30. Boy am I glad we did!

I mixed 2 tbsp of this rice cereal with several tbsp of her formula, put her in her bumbo, strapped on a bib and went to work. 20 minutes later we had gotten 1/2 the rice cereal somewhere around her mouth or on her bib. :)

Earlier in the week I tried to get her used to the spoon - which Eric (and others probably) thought was ridiculous. But I thought it was a good idea. Even with a couple evenings with the spoon she still wasn't a fan tonight and even gagged once (though I think it was a pretend gag b/c it wasn't like I was shoving the spoon down her throat!). And a few times she turned her head away and closed her lips. But I was persistent and eventually she was opening her mouth wide so I could get the spoon in there. We still weren't completely successful at getting the entire spoonful of cereal in her mouth but overall I think we did pretty good for our first time out of the gate. We'll see how it goes in the coming days... in a few weeks we'll start vegetables I guess. Hopefully she's used to the spoon by then!