Rice cereal!

I REALLLLY wanted to wait until Oliver was exactly 6 months old before introducing any kind of food. Dr. B told us to start with rice cereal around 5 1/2 months, and at our 6 month check up we'd talk about other foods. Even with his orders, I still wanted to wait. What's another 2 weeks, right? Oliver doesn't NEED solid food so I figured holding out would be just fine.

Well, I have changed my mind and today I made my first batch of homemade rice cereal. Why, you ask? The past 2 nights Oliver has woken up every 2-3 hours. It is slowly killing me. We've stuck to our bath-book-bottle-bed routine for weeks now, and even moved our start time to 7:30 which is usually when he starts to meltdown in the evening. Several people and websites have said a solid routine is the key to a good night's sleep. HA! Obviously my child marches the beat of his own drum, because he does not care what a routine should do for him. Before these last 2 awful nights, he was still waking up once or twice, so it's been going on for awhile. Like 2 months... Mama's had enough.

So today is day 1 of solid food. We'll just start with tastes of it and see how it goes, and hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll all get some good sleep around here.

Not sure about this...

Why are you trying to kill me?

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