Baby Girl will be 7 months in one week, and she is eating us out of house and home.
I firmly believe this is because her little body is ready for real food. However, that is easier said than done. A month ago, her eczema suddenly got worse - her chest, body creases and face are all red, rough and irritated looking. I read. Because it corresponded with introducing her first solid food (along with an alarming case of hives), we pulled her off solids. The hives went away. The eczema stayed. I read some more. We switched formula brands. Very little difference, except I like the new one better (of course - it's twice as much - which is the second reason I wince at Baby Girl eating enough to rival a growing teenage boy).
Back on solids. And ... Baby Girl is allergic to bananas, resulting in hives and a red bottom that made her scream when she had to get rid of the solid food waste. It is terribly unfortunate since she loved bananas - greedily slurping down every morsel I would give her.
We waited. I read some more. Last night, we introduced sweet potatoes (which Himself and I took part of, seasoned with salt, pepper and nutmeg and had for dinner - the added benefits of making one's own baby food!). They were met with a lot of interesting facial contortions and a lot of lip smacking.
Tonight, we brought out the sweet potatoes again. This time, after one bite, Baby Girl stubbornly refused to open her mouth. At all. No amount of teasing, coaxing, playing stupid little games would make her change her mind. She would even smile with her lips clamped shut. I floundered, wondering how on earth she was ever going to grow if she remained this stubborn.
About the time I started muttering how she was most definitely our child, given the level of stubbornness, I gave in and let Baby Girl hold her own spoon. I am sure there are about a thousand "thou shalt nots" about this in all those parenting books I've never read (seriously - who has time to read parenting books when one has a child? And before hand, you have no idea about what they are actually speaking, so they are utterly almost useless). Miracle of miracles, Baby Girl took the spoon loaded with sweet potatoes, put them in her mouth and chattered happily as she ran the spoon over her tongue. I repeated it until there were more sweet potatoes in her hair, on her pants and chair and face than there were in the bowl.
I am hoping some went into her mouth.
3 comments:
Hey, try yogurt. Babies tend to love yogurt and you can get the good stuff like yo baby for her. LL was like that with her spoon. Have fun with that.
Also - Goose has eczema almost all of the time because of excessive dry skin. Cetaphil cream works wonders on it right after baths.
I read somewhere to let them play with spoons in the tub. It helps kids learn to handle them without all the mess. We tried it with Little Man. I don't know if it really made a difference or if I just like to think it did.
Neither my kids nor I have ever been into that whole spoon-feeding thing. It usually lasts about a week before I give up and hand the spoon over to them. And none of them have starved to death yet. :)
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