Addy had her first experience with “solid” food today, if you can consider two tablespoons of single grain oatmeal baby cereal in two ounces of formula, “solid.” Up until this point, she’s only had breastmilk to “eat.”
She ate about half of her first meal, spitting out about half of each bite I put in her mouth. Not because she didn’t like it; just because she wasn’t good at eating from a spoon yet.
I’m glad we’re at this point. I really do enjoy breastfeeding overall, but the start of solids means the beginning of a little more flexibility for me in that area. Knowing that she can be spoonfed means that if I need to skip a feeding (note she won’t take a bottle) that she’ll still be able to get a full belly. I’ll likely have to utilized this strategy when I go to my first concert of the summer, Coldplay, on July 25.