I was a bit of a worry wart when it came to feeding Logan. The first two month I was keeping track of how much he ate, how often, how many dirty diapers, what kind of diaper... It was a bit much, I mean honestly, he was gaining weight and healthy so there was no reason to be so neurotic about it, but I couldn't just let it go. The first thing I would ask when I picked him up from the family was how much he ate, how many diapers! At around 4 month I relaxed! The doctor told me it was fine to start cereals or some purees, he was a big boy and milk probably wasn't enough any more. This is the first time in my life I have questioned something a doctor told me. I just didn't feel like that was right for MY baby. He wasn't hungry all the time, he would go 3-4 hours between feedings, with 1 rarely 2 feedings at night.
This is when I started researching... I spent days upon days of researching. There is a ton of information online about feeding babies! This has been out "go to" site: http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/ They have amazing recipes and so much information! We made the decision to wait until closer to 6 months to start solids. Now I do know some babies are not satisfied by just milk until 6 months, some babies seem to need a little help. But for Logan he was thriving on breast milk and I wasn't ready to start him on solids. Chris on the other hand wanted to be sharing bacon, cheeseburgers, and pancakes with him at 2 months... (I caught him sharing bacon at Christmas time... he was just letting him suck on it... but really bacon??) Anyways he would support me but he would sneak him little tastes of things here and there. I briefly thought about BLW (Baby Led Weaning) but I might have a slight (read major) problem with my reaction to choking. (My dads best friend choked to death)We bought some baby rice cereal... All natural organic, and fed that to him a few times. But I didn't really like feeding him something I wasn't making. It made me feel a little better that it was a natural organic brand though. So we started to make our own baby food... I still make some of his baby food but with us traveling to Portland and back every weekend or two it is harder. We do buy him Eath's Best Oragnic baby food, and he gets that when we are traveling. We actually tried a few Gerber's ones but he is a baby food snob and won't eat Gerber foods. With their recalls and all the things they are finding in Gerber foods didn't bother me a bit!
He is now entering that stage though where he doesn't want the puree's he want to feed himself and wants what I am eating. This has been by far the most fun we've had feeding him. He is still nursing but he loves to feed himself! His dad is loving feeding him new and different foods! We don't have food allergies on either side of our families. So the only thing we haven't really fed him are strawberries! And his favorite thing is blueberries! We do squish that a little bit and pull them in half sometimes. He has 4 top teeth and 2 bottom teeth and trust me he know how to use them! It is so funny to watch them chew their food. And get so excited when you set down his plate!
What do you guys feed you babies? And how many of you did BLW?
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