First Solid Food

Juliana likes to eat her toys, my shirt, her blankets, her car seat harness, her fingers, Gabriella's hair... you get the point. She has been telling us for awhile now that she would like to try out some solid food. Holding her while eating is nearly impossible. She will lurch and grab and do her hardest to get at your meal.

On Monday it was finally time to give her her first bites of solid food. Unfortunately, she didn't get her sister's graham crackers like she wanted and she had to settle for a taste of sweet potato. I decided against cereal as her first food because a.) it is a manufactured product and many brands contain soy and other ingredients that she may be allergic/sensitive to and b.) it isn't super nutritious. I could make my own rice cereal with organic brown rice... but mashing up a sweet potato with a little breast milk is so much easier.

In goes the first bite...

Hmmmm...

You know, I'd much rather just feed myself...

This stuff is really fun to squish...

She got maybe a couple spoonfuls down. We tried again today and she ate a little bit more. She is most definitely more independent than Gabriella. She wanted to have the spoon and do it herself whereas Gabriella would've let me feed her at a year old (heck, Gabriella might still let me feed her.)

ps- If you want to be technical about it, Juliana's FIRST bite of solids was a paper napkin she grabbed off a table at a restaurant. I'm pretty sure she ate a bit before I could fish all the pieces out of her mouth.