solids

today i started baby on solids.  in my baby book it says to wait until 4 months (check) and the baby has doubled his birth weight (check).  the latest advice on the web is to wait until 6 regardless, but thereafter to watch for signs of readiness for food, eg. baby makes you feel guilty while eating as he looks on and makes chewing motions (check).. . they both say emphatically that baby's ability to sleep through the night is irrelevant.  however, b slept really well until recently. lately i have had to keep him in bed with me so he can snack at will wiyhout waking me too much.  it has been getting rapidly worse.  both mother and baby are tired and tetchy during the day.   last night he fed every hour which is worse than when he was a newborn when it was every three hours.  surely.... well, i guess when you're exhausted you'll try every avenue regardless of the WHO advice.

so, this evening b was treated to a runny paste which is either baby barley or baby buckwheat mixed with water and breastmilk, i'm not sure quite what the packet said because it was in russian.  i was wary of rice because i thought it might bung him up.  he seemed keen, althogh he got really frustrated trying to grab the spoon and bowl off me, and he made a variety of weird expressions as he licked and spat his first food.  predictably most of it went on his shirt.  still, at no point did he turn his head away; he just got annoyed with the spoon feeding process.