Well. We have an eater.
Elliott was showing all the signs that he was ready to eat, so we jumped the gun and started feeding him solids on May 24th at 5 months, 1 week and 1 day old. So much for waiting until 6 months.
We did get the go ahead from our pediatrician, Dr. Miloh and the nutritionist (not like her opinion was very important to me. She actually told me, sternly, that solids were not to replace nursing at this age. Well, duh.) before we started, so we felt like we had approval from the medical community.
This was his first meal. It was the perfect level of ripeness.
Waiting patiently.
First bite.
Think he liked it?
He definitely enjoyed the experience, but he wasn't quite sure how to coordinate his swallows. I could drop some speech pathologist lingo about tongue thrust and tongue base retraction....but I won't.
He spit a lot of banana out during this first meal. By the next morning he was a banana eating champion. He spit none of it out and actually cried when he was done. By day 3 he ate half a banana in one sitting.
He got a lovely post banana bath that night.
We follow the "new food every 4 days while looking for signs of allergy" rule, so 4 days later we gave him avocado. He wasn't such a huge fan, but he learned to enjoy it by day 3.
4 days after that was sweet potato. He loved it.
This was his breakfast last Friday.
Up next: oatmeal. We're starting in the morning. I ground oatmeal in the food processor tonight and then cooked it with water. It'll be ready for him in the A.M.
Elliott really does enjoy eating. It's reassuring to us to know that he really was ready for solids. Spencer didn't get picky about his food until he was about 20ish months, and even then it was a developmental thing and had more to do with control than real pickiness. By the time he was about 3 he was back to eating just about everything we gave him. He justs eats at the same pace as a sloth in a partial coma. I hope Elliott follows the same path for not being picky, but it would be lovely if he could eventually eat a piece of pizza in less than an hour.
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He he he, a sloth in a partial coma. Too, too funny.
Yay for Elliott eating solids now. I got so excited doing that with Oliver. So far he's not picky either and I have been curious if/when that will change. Oliver's dad is an insanely picky eater and I'm terrified my children will end up the same way.
Anyway, congrats again on the continued successes with everything. Elliott really is coming into his own, huh?
The sad thing is that a sloth in partial coma really is the right description for Spencer...some day he will be a teenager and inhale his food.
So excited Elliott is getting so big!
Kids and foods are so funny sometimes. Saw my "almost nephew" as I call him a couple of weeks ago and he's 10 months and he tried (cut up, teeny tiny) ribs and loved them, wanted to keep eating more. It was so funny to see a 10-month-old wanting ribs!
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