Apples and Apricots

Tried Apples and Apricots today, and he seemed to have liked it. Definitely no reaction which is good. However, it took a while to feed it to him, and while he ate the whole jar, I don't think he was too thrilled with it.

So far....

The reason why I haven't been blogging much is because we've been on vacation for 19 days, then when we got home, I've been sick. However, while I haven't been blogging, BabyL still has been eating solids. Here's a list of what he's tried so far:

Likes

• Apples
• Bananas
• Carrots
  
• Pear - well, he's meh about them, I think they may be too tart for his tastes
  
• Peaches
• Rice Cereal
  
• Sweet Potatoes
  

Dislikes, but still has to eat:

• Green Peas
• Green Beans
  

Had a reaction to:

• Squash - not certain what kind, but he loved it (too bad)
• Prunes - he was meh about them, but he broke out in hives, and is still recovering from them, sigh.

Banana is a lovely fruit that he can eat without having to steam it first, it can be prepared with a fork and plate, and pretty much eaten anywhere. I love banana, it's easy to port around, BabyL loves it, and it's pretty much an easy no-brainer.

However, I had a question of how much I should be feeding BabyL. Apparently, breast milk/formula should still be his main source of nutrition, up until about 11-12 months, with the solids making up about 1/3 of his nutritional intake for the day. I have noticed in just the last couple of weeks alone, BabyL is eating way more breast milk, but I don't know how much more, so I don't know how much more I should be feeding him.

I'm now trying to mix some of the foods together so that he has a bit of variety. For instance, today he had Apple and Banana for breakfast, Banana for lunch and Sweet Potatoes/Green Beans/Carrots for dinner, and yes, he ate the whole thing.

I'm still using jarred food, but it has become clear to me that he will benefit from some real food with a bit more texture. Right now, the only "real" food he gets is banana. To that end, I've bought a baby foods recipe book. I bought it mainly so I can get some guidance of the amounts he needs to eat, but also to get ideas of what to feed him.

This is all so confusing!

Green Peas and Triple Argh!

We gave BabyL Green Peas today. He made a face when we first fed it to him, so we tried it ourselves. Let me tell you pureed peas when not warm takes gross! So we warmed up the jar in a bowl of hot water. That seemed to make it more palatable for BabyL because he started lunging for the spoon after a while.

We also gave the squash one more go. He still has a slight reaction. I'll try another brand to see if it's truly the squash that he's reacting to. I'm thinking about writing the company and asking them what sort of squash they'd put in there. I had realised that there are many types of squash, and to put down "organic squash" as an ingredient is too vague in my books.

Double Argh!

So we had been double-bibbing BabyL because he makes such a mess; the second bib is there to protect his clothing. Well, now we think that it may be the double-bibbing that's causing him to turn red. BabyL is very sensitive to heat, and when he's hot enough, he will fuss! But even when he's not that hot, he gets a heat rash as his body temperature rises.

How did we figure that out? Since we thought he was reacting to the squash, we'd decided to give him sweet potato instead. After all, he went four whole days without a reaction. We didn't heat up the sweet potato, it was room temperature mush that we fed him, and he still went red. So that's why I think it's the double-bibbing.

Tomorrow, I'm going to try the squash again, this time with just one bib, and hopefully that should give me some answers. Argh!

Argh!

So he had a reaction to squash. Bah. Will try again at a later date. Sigh.

Squash!

Today we tried squash with BabyL, and it was an even bigger hit than the sweet potato. However, he turned red the second time we fed it to him. This morning, I had fed him the squash by itself and didn't notice a reaction. This evening, it was squash with rice cereal mixed in. The same rice cereal he's had for a week with no reaction. The only thing we could conclude was that we had heated up the food in the microwave, and something within the microwave had contaminated the food (eg old food stuck on the microwave walls, etc). I'm going to try the squash again tomorrow to see if he really is sensitive to it or not. Squash is a hard vegetable to be allergic to, so this is a little puzzling.

For those of you who are wondering what brands I've been feeding BabyL, it's Earth's Best, Safeway O Organics and President's Choice.

Sweet Potato

We tried sweet potato today with BabyL, and he loved it! Cold too, I didn't heat it up. He ate the whole jar, that's 2.5 oz! I have three different brands, but they're all made up of the same thing: organic sweet potato (or yams as some people know it as) and water. BabyL is loving the solids thing. He has now learned to open his mouth when he sees the spoon coming towards him. I was holding the jar of baby food in front of him, and he was lunging at that too, LOL!

My only mistake was having him wear a white onesie the first time he ate any food with colour in it, how am I going to get the stains out? Whoops! Live and learn.