Solid Food

This is Lydia's first exposure to solid food - a thin mixture of rice cereal and warm breast milk. As you can see she didn't like it very much. Thankfully, I had read about this in a child development book and knew to expect her to reject it the first several attempts. She ended up wearing most of it. You can see how wet her chest is. She got a bath right after this. She liked that a whole lot better.

I've given her rice cereal four times since this day. The last two times, she began opening her mouth to receive the spoon, and I heard her swallow a few times. She even stopped making faces and thrashing around. David and I have caught her watching us intently as we bring our forks to our mouths. I think she's beginning to figure it out! I'm so impressed!