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When Babies Win Food Fights

March 18th, 2004 · No Comments

Ok, cheesy title… but this has to be a quick entry. Joel and I are both dead tired and we really need to get to bed.

Branwen turned 6 months old today. That seems so crazy! Anyway, her 6 month appointment went well and, as we did with Alexis on her 6 month day, we started Branwen on rice cereal this evening. At least, we tried to. Alexis took to solid foods like a fish to water. She didn’t really seem to have trouble with them at all, and she was always, even when she first started, a fairly neat kid. Branwen, on the other hand, really did not think that having a spoon stuffed in her mouth was very funny at all. She proceded to jerk her head to either side, scream, grab at the spoon (which she managed to catch a couple of times), and blow upset raspberries at us, promptly showering us and the room at large with rice cereal. By the time we were done, there was cereal on the floor, on the high chair, all over Branwen, and sprinkling my face, arms, etc. Score one for Branwen, zero for her parents.

I’ve heard that if they don’t take to solids right away, it can sometimes help to feed them when they’re not quite as hungry. We’ll be trying that tomorrow. Tonight we just settled for nursing and taking a nice, cleansing bath. 🙂

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