Thursday, December 20, 2007
Jericho's first cereal
At Jericho's last well-child visit, the pediatrician urged me to start him on cereal slowly, like once a day for 2 weeks, then step it up to twice a day for 2 weeks. I was resistant because I hate the baby food stage. It is incredibly messy. I also was not in a rush because he is now 5 months old. The doctor told me to do this at 4 months old. Correct me if I'm wrong, but, when I was a kid, parents were told to start baby food at 6 months. What makes my kid any different from me (barring the gender, you smart-alick!)? Well, lately he has been resistant to nursing at times. I'm wondering if he will refuse to nurse after awhile. Because I'm afraid he'll wean himself before I start him on food, I gave him some tonight. Why tonight? I was interested in his reaction, and he was awake and hungry. He liked it. All I did was mix cereal with water. At first he turned up his nose because it was cold. Then he tasted it and decided he wanted more. In fact, I was trying to feed Gabriel at the same time. When I walked away for a moment, Jericho complained. I took that as a good sign. He wanted what I was giving him. We'll try it again tomorrow.
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I think each child has his own time for wanting cereal or breaking from the breast milk. Josh was 3 mos old when he broke loose. Don;t feel so bad you are in the process of giving cereal, josh just decided one morning when I had no bottles, no formula, no baby cereal no nothing but a crying baby, and older sister that didn't understand why I wasn't feeding her little brother and my crying because I didn't know what to do and I felt rejected and hurt. Den was already at work and I was lost, hurt and crushed. Help! Don;t feel bad Heather, we are all different.
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