Allison is now eating solid foods. After reading up on all the current sugggestions on starting your baby on solid foods, we realized their are so many rules to follow. They're really not rules - just guidelines. But since we are first time parents who really don't know what in the world we are doing, we decided that it would be best to follow them. Rule #1: First comes cereal. She started a couple weeks ago with the oh-so-boring rice cereal. She seemed to take after her parents and is a natural born eater. She also tried out some oatmeal. We think that she may like it more than the rice cereal. Rule #2: Once you introduce a food you need to give it to the baby 3-5 days to make sure that your child doesn't have an allergic reaction. So once we had rice cereal and oatmeal for a couple of days we moved on to vegetables. How exciting! Rule #3: The book that our pediatrician gave us, had a guideline for the order to introduce vegetables. It is as follows - carrots, squash, green beans, beets, peas, spinach, and then sweet potatoes. So far we have had the first three. Allison has liked them all. But since she has had vegetables, she hasn't liked the cereals very much. So now we have to mix her vegetables into her cereal. Oatmeal and green beans doesn't sound so appetizing to me but she sure thinks it is. After we have tried all the vegetables, we get to move on to fruit (Rule #4) and then meat (Rule #5). Some of you may find all of this a tad boring, but we think it's quite interesting.
