OMG

I understand the necessity and value of teeth, but why can't nature give babies a break!?

Solid-arity Sistah!

We've been experimenting with different solid foods. I started her off with rice cereal and after a few days I think she got bored with it. Then I boiled and pureed some sweet potato. Again, after a few days she got bored with it. Then I steamed and pureed some apples and she LOVED them. Especially when I fed her the puree on a piece of apple that I was eating at the time.....but then we found that she didn't sleep well at night because the apple upset her stomach!

Then I tried to boil and puree some peas and she loved those too....only to get bored of them after a few days. Back to the sweet potato.....and back to the stomach upset. So apple and sweet potato are out for the time being. I bought a butternut squash and a zucchini to try next week.

If you remember, a while back she slept two nights without feeding and then she got her second round of shots and was back to 5-6 or 7 hour stretches before needing a feed. Then we decided to do a 'dreamfeed' at 11pm so I went to bed at 9pm, J stayed up until 11 and fed her in her sleep and then went to bed. On this 'regime' she was lasting until about 6:30am. This lasted for about 2 weeks and then the stomach upsets started and everything went topsy turvy. It's a good thing I'm a scientist and I'm good at experiments! To give her a break, and to experiment with her nighttime sleeping habits, we decided not to feed her solids for a few days and not to feed her in her sleep around 11pm to see how long she would last at night without a feed. She lasted ALL night! 7:15pm to 6:30am! The amount she was taking at 11pm had been decreasing and decreasing and if she woke at night, I got the feeling it wasn't from hunger because whenever we picked her up, she calmed down and never went right for the bottle like she was famished. I guess we'll have to work at being patient enough to get her back to sleep without feeding in the middle of the night since she obviously doesn't need it. But I tell you, at 3 am, you'll try anything to get them back to sleep as quickly as possible!

 Elizabeth is also sitting on her own now!!! We were practicing over the last month or so and the last 2 weeks she really started sitting with confidence (a few face-plants will shatter your sitting-self-esteem for a while...). She no longer finds the bumbo comfortable now that she can sit on her own. We sometimes plop her in there, but she wriggles so much since it sort of cups her butt. We've moved her onto the highchair and she loves it!

She sure shows that floor who's boss, huh??