We've been exploring real food over the last month. Christopher will be 5 months old on Friday and he's already discovered several new tastes :-)
He has had rice cereal and oatmeal, which he likes most of the time. He prefers it a little thicker than I figured at his age, but if it's runny at all he just spits it back at us. If it's thick, he will actually work it from the front of his tongue to the back and swallow like a little person! It's cool to watch him learn.
We tried some barley cereal too, but it seemed to give him gas, so I'm holding off on the wheat and barley until at least 6 months. The gluten is pretty hard for baby tummies to digest.
He's really doing well on veggies! We've tried sweet potatoes, carrots and just last night had our first taste of avocado. He LOVED the first two, avocado got a funny, skeptical look at first but then he ate all of it too.
I've got a 3 day per veggie schedule right now just letting him try different stuff and make sure he doesn't have bad reactions to any of them. I think next in line are butternut squash, pears, apples, bananas and peas. Once he's tried most of the main ones, I'll start doing some combos. I've got a good recipe book with great ideas.
I think he is teething hard core now too. He's been chewing pretty hard and constantly on his hands. Yes, both hands at the same time or one whole fist. We've got a teether that we froze and he liked chewing on that for a little while. He was fussy all day at the sitter yesterday and I think that was part of it. I also forgot his amber teething necklace, so that may be helping afterall....
Again, videos and/or pictures will come when I think to update the blog from my home pc :-)
