A couple of nights ago, we fed Gemma some rice cereal for the first time. Because she has already displayed some food allergies, her pediatrician wanted us to wait until she was around 5 to 5.5 months old before starting any type of solids.
So the other night we fed her some rice cereal. I use the term "fed" very loosely here. She's not so good with closing her mouth and swallowing, so mostly the cereal just came dripping back out down her chin. (We made the rookie mistake of not having any plastic bibs on hand--the cloth one she was wearing was dripping with cereal by the time she was done.) She actually did much better than we were expecting--she gave us such a hard time transitioning to formula that we were expecting more of the same behavior in this situation. But when we "fed" her the cereal, she actually swallowed a lot more of it than we were expecting. We also got some really good laughs at her facial expressions. Can't wait to see what happens when we start her on some veggies!
A couple of nights ago, we fed Gemma some rice cereal for the first time. Because she has already displayed some food allergies, her pediatrician wanted us to wait until she was around 5 to 5.5 months old before starting any type of solids.
So the other night we fed her some rice cereal. I use the term "fed" very loosely here. She's not so good with closing her mouth and swallowing, so mostly the cereal just came dripping back out down her chin. (We made the rookie mistake of not having any plastic bibs on hand--the cloth one she was wearing was dripping with cereal by the time she was done.) She actually did much better than we were expecting--she gave us such a hard time transitioning to formula that we were expecting more of the same behavior in this situation. But when we "fed" her the cereal, she actually swallowed a lot more of it than we were expecting. We also got some really good laughs at her facial expressions. Can't wait to see what happens when we start her on some veggies!
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