After doing two meals yesterday, I felt it was a bit too much for her to handle (and for me too I guess!). So today I only gave her breakfast. I also pureed the rice cereal in the blender just to make it even easier for her to swallow. I'm thinking it would be best to get her used to the new routine, the new flavors and the new sensations before worrying about the solid food actually being solid.
A couple days before we even introduced food, I was giving Lily small spoonfuls of breastmilk just to get her used to a spoon. We even let her play in her high chair while we ate dinner so she could get used to sitting in her chair and to watch mommy and daddy eating. We let her play with a ball, a block and a spoon. She enjoyed banging all of them on the tray, putting them in her mouth and then throwing them on the ground. She also loved watching food disappear into our mouths, and she especially liked when we crunch, crunch, crunch!
Her 2nd meal was homemade brown jasmine rice cereal again, but its consistency was more liquid than yesterday. It definitely went down easier and Lily seemed to enjoy it more. She ate 1/4 cup of it! She liked to grab the spoon as I brought it closer to her mouth. I felt like she was trying to help me. She was a little cranky though, and I think it was because she was still tired. So another change for tomorrow- do lunch instead of breakfast.
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