Gimme, gimme, gimme your FOOD
We're waiting until six months to start Finn on table foods, but it's going to be a long, hard wait. I can see why people give in before six months. The boy is practically dive bombing for our food. We were at Ikea eating dinner and he was trying his best to get his mouth onto whatever we were putting into our mouths. Every time I took a bite of food he would whip his head around and lean toward it, mouth wide open as he tried to latch onto it.
Eating has become the MOST interesting thing we do.
We've started to give him spoons and cups to distract him, but he's making it almost impossible to eat while holding him. He watches our mouths when we eat. The other day the act of crunching a cracker caused him to whip his head around and stare at me intently. He's even starting to make chewing motions with his mouth.
Tonight we put a tiny taste of M.'s vanilla custard sauce on a spoon and gave it to him and he practically threw a fit when we took it away.
It's going to be a long six weeks.
posted by Sacha @ 9:21 PM
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I'd always heard that introducing solids should be a baby-led thing but never before four months. Maybe you should think about starting sooner? They don't really eat much at first anyway -- more practice and play than anything.
Our son was *very* ready to eat by four months. But he was big for his age (in the 90th percentile for height and the 75th for weight at 4 months). We didn't intend to give him anything before six months, but then, because he seemed so ready, our doctor suggested we give him rice cereal at four months, but nothing else until he was six months old. For us, that worked out perfectly. Our guy loves almost everything we've given him. Our doctor also said that breastmilk or formula are still the only important thing - food right now is just a training process.
We're going to hold out until six months. Finn's not sitting yet, which is one of the major indicators. And there is a lot of research to support not starting before six months. We'll just have to keep Mr. Grabby Hands away from everything until then. :)
Yeah, you're right, if we only went by Erik watching us eat, he would have been eating by six weeks! LOL.
My son was similar at that age, but he really wasn't ready. When he started grabbing at our forks and making chewing motions, we'd try to give him real food and he'd spit it right out. The tongue thrust wasn't caught up with the brain, I guess.
You can "fool" him with frozen breastmilk. Give him spoonfuls of the milk slushie and he will think he's getting food because it's a different texture and temperature. This really works. :-)
Misty
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