Baby Food!

Today it's recommended to start baby's on solid food, or rice cereal that is, inbetween 16-24 weeks of their lives. Audrey is 20 weeks, so she falls in that category. Here are some other signs your baby is ready to start eating a bit of cereal. They are interested in the food they see you eating-Audrey watches with great interest when we eat and tries to grab it from our silverware and put it in her mouth. They are at least double their birth weight-Audrey was 8lbs and now she's 17lbs. They are waking up at night and seem hungry when they were previously sleeping through the night-Audrey used to sleep through, now she wakes up. The baby can keep food in his/her mouth w/o pushing it right back out (this is a reflex that disappears with age).- Well I didn't know about this one until we tried feeding her. So yesterday we fed Audrey about 2 tsp of rice ceral mixed with a little formula to make to thin. She gobbled it up! Swalled it right down. I think we'll just do it once a day for now, like after her afternoon bottle. She still got up last night though, so I don't know why she's doing that. Anyhoo, here are some pics of Audrey's 1st bites ever!

Fun spoons we get to use now.

She liked to grab the spoon and help

Look at me guys, I'm a big girl!

Yum!