rice cereal

All the baby books I've read lately say that they suggest babies drink breast milk exclusively until 6 months. However, at Kirby's last dr appt, he said that they now suggest adding rice cereal between 4-6 months. Apparently, it was decided at the last Pediatric convention and since it just happened, the books we have are out of date. *shrug*

I was hesitant to start rice cereal (mainly b/c I'm hesitant about change :P ), but I warmed up to the idea b/c I started thinking of how cute he'd be eating from a spoon. Since he didn't gain much in the last 2 months (only 1.5 pounds!) I thought the extra calories would do him some good. :)

We've only fed him 3 times so far. The first time, he didn't know what the heck was going on, and he ended up spitting up all of it 5 minutes later. Same with the second time. Last night, however, he seemed more interested and even opened his mouth when Gary got close with the spoon. Since he hasn't eaten much of it, we've only been giving him 1 tablespoon once in the evening. Maybe we'll give it another week and bump it up to 2 tablespoons. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it takes a lot to pump out each tablespoon and I hate to see any of it wasted!

Here's video of his very first time eating with a spoon and eating rice cereal (sorry about the light coming from behind him).