Saturday, January 15, 2011

Rice Cereal

During Hank's well baby visit to Doctor Hudson, I asked about feeding him cereal. The doctor said whenever we were ready. There's really no reason to wait. And it surprised me when he said, cereal, fruits, vegetables, meats, whatever. He can have anything and everything. The only thing he recommends is to wait 3 days before introducing something new and no raw honey in the first year.

So this morning he tried some rice cereal and was fairly interested, eating about a tablespoon of cereal mixed with breastmilk. Speaking of breastmilk, I have been feeling really good about breastfeeding thinking doing this for a year could be a definite possibility. That was up until I was bit three times today. Hmmm, any thoughts from my mommy friends? Did you/do you have babies who got teeth early and bit? It doesn't hurt terribly but makes me a little uneasy nonetheless.



4 comments:

Jen said...

One trick I heard about biting is pull their head against you, which will startle them and they'll release. Then say "no". It happened with Brooks a few times but didn't become a big deal. Hopefully Hank won't make a habit of it. Congratulations on rice cereal!

Unknown said...

Thanks Jen, I'll give that a try!

IUgirl78 said...

Yikes! Well, I might not be the best one to talk to about it, but when Reid started biting me two weeks ago, I would look at him and say, "No." It made him laugh, so of course he would do it again. I ended up having to put him down on the couch beside me to say "no." He didn't like that very much. :( Hopefully it's just a random thing and he will forget about it soon!

Unknown said...

We're doing better already. When I asked for advice, he had bitten me 3 times in 1 session. But nothing since! Here's hoping it was just a 1 day thing!