A Solid Start

Wednesday was Peanut's 1/2 birthday (he was six months old) and this means that it was time for us to introduce him to solid foods.

The first meal we had to give him is some good old farex, rice cereal. Mixed with some expressed milk to consistency of - and this is the midwife at the health centres words - wallpaper paste.

So last night we gave Peanut his taste of something other breast milk, but something that is very bland and tends to taste mostly of what it has been mixed with, and it had had been mixed with breast milk. I measured out 1 teaspoon of farex and 1 1/2 teaspoons of milk (i know that does not sound like much, but it was hard work just getting that much!).

While i was getting the food ready, M34tb4LL got ready to 'capture the moment'. He set up the video camera on a tripod, he switched the small digital camera to video mode, and got the other digital camera at the ready.

We then strapped Peanut in his swing-a-ma-jig, switched on all the AV and were ready to go.

The first couple of spoon went in to mouth with him hardly even noticing. He did try to grab the spoon off me, and ended up with the rice cereal over himself and me but that was not too bad.

What i would say was bad part was seconds after he finished the last mouth full of food - he chucked - projectile - the whole feed PLUS the milk feed he had had about an hour before - it was the most substantial chuck we had seen in months!!! And might i point out the amount of food he was eating here - 1 TEASPOON, not table spoon, of farex with 1 1/2 of milk.

And yes, the whole thing was captured on two video camera and on the still camera. Some of the photos will be making their was on to flickr and an edited video will be put on YouTube, but we think it will be better to leave the way the feed ended to the imagination.

That is until his 21st birthday when the whole thing will be shown of course.

So tonight we put Peanut in his bumbo (an easily cleaned, plastic chair), on his plastic play mat and gave him a second feed of the farex. He was fine with the first couple of spoons and as soon as he started to pull a face we stopped, about two spoons before the end of the quantity i had prepared. No chucking, no drama, not even a dribble of food on his bib!

So tomorrow night he will get the farex again, and then it is on to vegies - then fruit - then meat - and before we know it he will be munching through the sample box (2 dozen) from Krispy Kremes.

(: Reggie