First Solids

Yes- I caved and gave her rice cereal before my self imposed 4 month deadline. I've been nursing her every half hour today, and she isn't seeming to get full. We had picked up little bowls, spoons, and rice cereal pre-emptively intending to start next week at the earliest. She's been trying to grab food off our plates for 2 weeks now, crying when she sees me eating, playing with her own little spoon and bowl, and seeming to be constantly starving. It was her time.

So Kat kind of enjoyed her first rice cereal, by the end she was shoving my hand to get the spoon in her mouth. She got a little messy as you can see below. I guess the first time was as successful as it could've been... she enjoyed the food, she even swallowed some of it, and she loves the spoon. We've been letting her play with little plastic bowl and a baby spoon for about a week now (it was the only way to keep her from yelling while we ate) so she was all about feeding herself tonight. As you can see, she was trying to grab that spoon and do it herself. It was actually pretty funny after we stopped rolling camera because she kept leaning forward with her mouth open making insistent little grunt noises :) Not wanting to overdo it, I'll likely give her a little more cereal tomorrow morning, but none tonight until we see how she digests it!