Bananas and I love food. You could probably classify us as "foodies". So I have been itching to see our boy eat his first real meal for quite a while now. Bananas on the other hand has been trying to stay true to doctors' and nurses' advice not to start feeding him solids until 6 months, but I figured he was two weeks overcooked when he was extracted anyway so he's two weeks ahead of schedule anyway - let's feed him at 5 1/2 months.
I suspect part of her reluctance to introduce real food is because she doesn't want him to grow up. Once he starts eating food then he's becoming a real boy but if she can keep him on just breast milk then he's still her little baby... In any case by being such a strong advocate of violating the 6 month advice I have now made myself responsible for any future digestive problems our boy may encounter. On my head be it.
The day was yesterday - 08/08/08. Real food, man that's debatable. This Farex stuff apparently has been the first meal for generations of babies (so says the blurb on the box) but it doesn't look very appetising, and as TJ took his first "bite" (more of a slurp really) I'm fairly convinced that my impressions are probably correct.
Well, it's probably more or less tasteless given its just rice cereal but they reckon you can't give them sweet stuff straight away or they won't eat anything else - you have to start bland so they'll get used to eating anything. It makes me wonder what Bananas was fed when she was a baby - she won't eat anything that hasn't been doused in fish oil and salt. OK that's an exageration but she does require lots of flavours in her food and is a very fussy eater in general. Actually we're complete opposites in that regard. While we both like to eat well, if I am hungry I will eat just about anything (even bittergaud - although why the hell anyone eats that stuff out of choice I have no idea - it's always what I imagined snozzcumbers from Roald Dahl's "The BFG" would taste like). Bananas on the other hand would rather starve to death than eat something she didn't like.
Anyway, so he managed to roll the Farex (mixed with breast milk as per instructions) in his mouth and didn't spit much of it out. Mission succesful. Welcome to the world of food little man. We hope we'll always have the means to feed you well and in time, provide you with the skills to feed yourself.
