FIRST FOOD!

Brewer is five months old today, and per our pediatrician's suggestion, we are starting cereal today! We've been instructed to feed him a combination of brown rice, oatmeal and barley over the next month before we start in on fruits, veggies and meats.



HELP! In order to save money, we're wanting to make our own baby food. We have purchased the Baby Brezza to make food, but I haven't figured out to make cereal with it yet. So, I put some non-cooked brown rice in our chopper (cheaper version of a food processor), and then mixed that chopped rice with breast milk to make the cereal. Well. It of course was just a nasty grainy mess. So, I purchased some regular brown rice cereal until we get this figured out. Any advice on making your own cereals would be GREATLY appreciated.



So. He did pretty good, but I really didn't have any clue about what to expect him to do. He seemed to not be a fan of the taste or whatever at first, but then was anticipating the spoon for quite a few spoonfuls before getting really ticked off that he was strapped in a chair that he couldn't escape. What texture is the cereal supposed to be?? Thicker breast milk (really, really liquidy), or more like liquidy mush? Because mine turned out really, really liquidy, and I don't know if I should be making it thicker...?



Anyhow! He's a pretty cute kiddo!



Last week, he seemed to be struggling to get past some drainage and spitting up more, so we took him to the pediatrician. The dr. was not very concerned about the cold he seemed to have, but about a couple of ingrown toenails! (Yes, our kid has ingrown toenails.) Brian and I haven't really worried about these too much because we both have ingrown toenails (the dr. was beside himself that we live with this issue and haven't had a podiatrist cut them out. Are you freaking kidding me?!?!) Anyhow, the dr. gave us a prescription that would kick the cold and the toe infection. Who knew one med could do both?? After Brian and I discussed it at home later that evening, we decided to wait a few more days to see if Brewer could get rid of these on his own. Three days later, he seems to have lost the green boogers and one toe is looking much better. The other is still questionable...



We weighed him while we were at the pediatrician, and he's at 15.35 lbs., a full pound heavier than 3 1/2 weeks earlier. That puts him in the 33% for weight.