"Solid" Foods

Collin is 5 months old now and is well on his way to mastering the art of eating solid food from a spoon. Although I have no idea why they insist on calling it solid food. It is definitely mush and I am not giving him his solid food rating until he can eat Spam.

He started with rice mush a couple weeks ago, but broke out in hives and had little bumps all over his body so we stopped for a while then started back up with oat mush and now he's up to oat mush and banana mush twice a day. He's better with the spoon and will sometimes wait until we get it all the way into his mouth before he grabs it. He definitely likes the food and the percentage of food that makes it from spoon to stomach is going up steadily. He still makes a huge mess, but we no longer feel like we need to feed him in the driveway.




On another front, his nap routine has changed completely. I no longer have to go through the elaborate ritual I described in a previous post to get him to fall asleep. All I have to do now is hold him and walk around or rock him and he'll usually pass right out. He's also decided that there are 3 acceptable places to nap: the car, his stroller and laying on my chest. His crib did not make the list. I'll hold him for 5 or 10 minutes to make sure he is absolutely asleep, then I'll walk over to his crib and try and put him down. I can hold him 2" over the crib and he will be like a wet noodle, but as soon as his butt touches that crib his eyes pop open and a cry is soon to follow. I've tried patting his back, comforting him, everything. Pacifiers are useless - he'll just take it out of his mouth, look at it and then chew on the side. The only thing I can do is pick him back up and comfort him back to sleep. This goes on until he is obviously no longer sleepy or I give up and let him sleep on my chest.