Rosie's first taste of cereal

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Rosie is doing a great job at confusing her parents. For the past few days she's been acting like she's starving. I can't seem to get enough milk in her. Yet, as fast as I pump it in her, she pumps it out. Yeah, we're talking about poop again. Sorry it keeps coming up. Haven't you figured out yet that if the subject isn't sleeping, pooping, or eating, it is of no interest to us? Anyway, this morning, if you must know, I woke to greet a very messy baby. to start with, she slept from 6:30 pm to 9:00 am with two short food breaks and no diaper change. So we're talking one saturated diaper. Add to that a mountain of poop (I'm surprised this didn't show up on the St. Helens seismographs) and you've got one nasty mess. Suffice it to say that I cleaned poo off her shoulder, and we had to draw a bath.

Anyway, back to the subject of food.

She's met all the criteria for eating solids, but I'm still very reluctant to give them to her this early. But, after nursing her yet again after less than 2 hours form the time before, we decided to give it a go. She did pretty good, but seemed a bit confused when the cereal entered her mouth.


It sort of seemed like she was ready, I mean she didn't push the food completely out and did end up swallowing some. But then she didn't seem to feel well all day and so we weren't sure if it was the cereal or something I ate. So now we're not sure what to do. Should we keep on with the cereal? Hope that all this hunger is just a growth spurt and will pass? I'd like to keep her on breast milk for at least another month, hopefully till she's 6 months old.

We'll probably just stick with milk till she sees the doctor on Friday. But in 5 minutes I will change my mind again because I really don't know how to take care of a baby, I'm still winging it.