Feeding Samantha

I started Sam on rice cereal last week, mostly just to get her used to a spoon. She hated it the first time, but I think that was as much a function of her getting a cold as it was the novelty of it. I’ve tried a couple of times since then, but she clearly isn’t fond of this. She has already caught onto the ‘open mouth, insert spoon’ concept, which I think is pretty good. It is the ‘swallowing’ part that is giving her trouble. She just squirts out whatever I put in until I have a very gluey mass on the burp cloth. The cereal is very watered down so it is as much like formula as it could be and still have cereal in it. She still won’t eat it. Oh well, I am not expecting her to get nutrition from these moments. We are just introducing her to the spoon and textured food for now.

She is getting too big to bathe in the sink, at 4 ½ months. Her legs hit the end of the sink and her knees have to bend to accommodate her. I will have to try her in a tub soon. She likes her bath, kicking up lots of water with her feet. She doesn’t splash with her hands at all yet.

When she eats from a bottle, she holds my finger with one hand. The other hand has two fingers on the bottle, two fingers on her nose, and her thumb in her mouth with the bottle nipple. She is pretty good at getting her thumb in her mouth now, and has lost any real interest in pacifiers. I can’t remember the last time I gave her a pacifier.