Solid food discoveries

Sophia has been doing so well with her rice cereal that today we decided to move onto bigger and more flavorful things. Last night I made an ice tray full of sweet potato puree to thaw as single servings as needed. And because she was eating so much when we gave her rice, I thought I’d start with two cubes of the puree instead of just one. I’m an idiot. The puree was one large sweet potato to which I added a half cup of filtered water. I kept the cubes that I was going to use this morning in the fridge but let it warm up to room temperature about thirty minutes before feeding her. It looked a little thick so I added an ounce of breast milk. Mixed it all up and much to the shock of my child gave her a big baby spoon full. I really should have set up a camera for this. Her arms flew up from her sides. She twitched and gagged. Nothing came up, but she really gagged. I thinned it out with another ounce of breast milk and tried another spoonful – a small scoop this time. She opened her mouth and closed it around the spoon but let the now peach color puree ooze down her chin. Well that reaction wasn’t as bad but she still twitched. I gave her a few more small spoonfuls and each time the flavor seemed to give her electrical shocks because she twitched every time. Yes, this is the same baby that sucks on her leather shoes and is currently chewing on her shirt. I don’t know if I should try again tomorrow or if I should go back to rice cereal for a couple days.

This morning she also had much more solid poop – not a formed one but quite a bit more solid that the pure breast milk poops. Don’t worry; you’ll get to see it on the diaper of the month post on the 25th. I’m always thinking of my readers.