Sep 4, 2009

Going Bananas...

The Littler One had bananas today. Dr. Sears (of whom I'm a fan) recommends waiting an average of 6 months before introducing solids to a baby, but he also recommends watching for babies' cues to see when they're ready. Well, during mealtime Mr. Grabby-Grabberson-almost-five-month-old has been going after my plate, forks, etc., for a while now, and he watches our food very carefully, so I've been contemplating the possibility that he might be ready to try some solids.

I hem & haw though. The Cat Daddy believes that I am staunchly against progress, but this is totally untrue. I'm not against solids--or progress--in any way. It's just that I'm plain lazy, and when the Littler One starts eating solids that means more work for us. Not a lot more work, but certainly more than latching him on and going about my business. Plus I need to dig out the heavy-duty bibs. Or order the ones they had when His Highness was in daycare. Oooh, those are the best bibs ever. We have a few--I was allowed to swipe some old ones--but I'm seriously considering pulling out the big guns and ordering a full dozen. And stitching some cute little yarn designs on them, like Ms. Rezina did. I know, I know. Daring is my middle name.

So anyway, I ran half a banana thru the Bullet and presto--banana soup. I suspect the Littler One's main priority was gnawing on the rubberized spoon, but regardless he sucked down several baby-spoonfuls of banana in the process. Actually, he sucked down about half of several baby-spoonfuls; the remainder ended up on his hands, my hands, his hair/face/neck/shirt, etc. None on the floor, but that's just a matter of time.

No rice cereal, you ask? Nah, I'm not much for the rice cereal. I like being a little rebellious when it comes to baby protocol (and our family food allergy history is minimal--I'm not totally flippant about it). Baby oatmeal's good. Goes great in applesauce. But not yet. For now, it's bananas.

But I seriously have to dig out some bibs...

2 comments:

John Shore said...

This is so great.

TulipGirl said...

Read something (13 years ago or so?) that compared bananas favorably to breastmilk, so bananas were my oldest's first solids. Then we made barley cereal. . .

I got lazier with each successive child, though. Delayed solids as much as I could with the last two. R10's first solid was pizza crust (at 10 mos old!) but C9 started much sooner -- like you -- following cues. (Though I cringed that my mom gave him a mango smoothie -- my brother was allergic to tropical fruits and I was so nervous about a reaction -- no probs, though. . . *L*)