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hey everyone it's sarah and josiah and
today
is a very very big day because guess
what little man here is now trying
his first bite of solid food
so he has been exclusively breast fed
for the first six months
that is what the american academy of
pediatrics recommends
so what we're going to do is we're going
to start him on his solids today
and then we're going to continue with
breastfeeding
over until he's about a year and that's
what they recommend doing now you can
breastfeed your baby however long you
want to until you and your baby decide
you don't want to breastfeed anymore
they recommend breastfeeding at least up
to a year
two years is great if you can do it that
long but really depends on what you all
want to do
now what are the signs that your baby is
ready for solids because there's some
things you need to look for
well first of all your baby you know can
set up
unassisted they have really good head
control
they also love putting things in their
mouth
like that they'll take their hands put
put them in their mouth
and he's really big about doing that
with his teeth so that's signaling to me
that he likes to do that
so what are we starting josiah on today
for his very first food
well we're gonna start with a single
grain baby cereal
rice and you know a lot of people wonder
what should i start my baby on the first
time i give them food and it really
depends it depends on who you talk to
i have read that there's really no
particular order
i've heard that you should do vegetables
before fruits because
your baby may like fruits over
vegetables you should do grains you
should do meats
it doesn't it doesn't matter it really
depends on what you want to do
what your pediatrician says so what i've
done is that i've
actually manually pumped some breast
milk
so i'm going to use this breast milk and
i'm going to mix it with a little bit of
rice cereal you know he's not going to
down a huge amount of this because this
is his first time we'll be probably
lucky if he takes
you know two three spoons of this so
we're going to mix this together
okay are you ready you ready for your
first bite here we go
oh hold still
what'd you think about that say hmm that
tastes familiar
i've had that milk before you ready
isn't that good it's okay
what do you think
what do you think little man get some
rice
with your milk in it your milk that you
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love
yummy yummy yummy
i like it
i don't know what to think but i don't
know what to think
well i think you like it you're not
spitting it out or making weird faces
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so we'll do this rice cereal over the
next three to five days
and see how he tolerates it you know
look for
any signs of a rash or like
diarrhea or extreme fussiness or
anything like that make sure he's just
tolerating it well and if he is then i
think we're gonna do
um some maybe like a vegetable next
maybe sweet potatoes or something like
that
but with my first son you know there's
different recommendations when you can
start them early
and we tried around five months with him
and he actually we did rice cereal too
and he actually got a rash so we backed
off and weighed in
let his gi system you know mature a
little bit let him mature a little bit
more
so we'll just see how josiah does whoops
with that
and those are things you definitely want
to watch out for whenever you're
starting your baby on new foods
so now i'm just going to let him just
really get familiar
with a bowl and touching the food
hopefully he'll touch his hand to it
bring it to his mouth and taste it so
it will be promoting you know like
self-feeding because that is where we
want to get
but some other things josiah's been
doing since he's um
hit his six-month mile stone is that he
is now really rolling over so we have to
watch him with that but that's really
cool he loves rolling over and
he is um also just so much more
aware and alert with things and
um is really just into everything like
he's wanting to explore like you know
in his mind that he wants to get up and
walk and move around
but he's limited because he's not there
yet but he's definitely
loving everything and we're we've been
he's
his gums down the bottom where his lower
central incisors are going to come
through they're definitely
really swollen we've had some days that
have been really rough with him
with teething so he should be cutting
those pretty soon and that's definitely
going to expand our whole
food horizon as well so he's been doing
really well and as he continues to grow
i'll continue giving you guys
updates and um you know thank you so
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