First meal

On October 22nd, Erin had her first taste of real food. She'd been eating like crazy for nearly a week beforehand, so we decided to start a few days earlier than our pediatrician had suggested. We couldn't help that in the back of our mind, we were hoping she'd sleep longer. That didn't turn out to be the case, but that was due to an ear infection, not the cereal. The first thing we did was get Erin into her high chair.


Next, I tried spooning a few bites into her mouth. She wasn't overly thrilled with it
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She spit out more than she actually ate. But it was fun for mommy and daddy. The next night went a little better, but after starting antibiotics, we decided not to keep going with cereal. About a week later, we tried oatmeal, which went much better, except that Erin was a little too hungry to try to eat! We're still trying to get the hang of how to work this out, but each time Erin gets better and better at it.

She tried to slurp the oatmeal and suck it down. So we make progress. We will not be starting on real foods until after her six month appointment. And she continues to get better from her ear infection as well.