The past few weeks have quite the adventure, as we have been trying to introduce the boys to spoon feedings. I never imagined this would be a complicated process. I visualized the happy first feeding as a moments filled with smiles, giggles, and two wide, eager mouths ready to gulp down every bit. Our reality has been quite different!
We started with rice cereal, just like we were advised. We tried mixing it with breast milk, we tried mixing it with water.... nothing made it past the tight lips of our two little boys, though! Four or five days after trying repeated attempts to get them to eat cereal, we introced bananas... then a few days later, applesauce. Both food provided the same result: gagging, crying, squirming, screaming... followed by more tight lips and adament food refusals! If even the smallest amount of food made it into the boys' mouths, they proceeded to either gag until it dribbled out or simply spit it out, which seems to be much more effective. :)
Two days ago we achieved success! It was a day I was beginning to think would never come. I heard trumpets sounding the moment when Dexter licked his banana-covered mouth and decided that yes, in fact, he did want more of this sweet substance. I watched eagerly as he looked at me, then at the spoon, then back at me... and opened his mouth widely for a real bite of food! This morning, Jaxon followed suit, accepting his first real meal of... you named it, bananas. (I guess we do have two little monkeys!)
Yes, my fears have been erased. No longer will I imagine our two little boys, going off to kindergarten with sippy cups filled with breastmilk. :)
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Yay! How fun! Lucy never loved cereal as much as the books said she would either. But bananas are still one of her favorites! (And it's nice not to have to smush them up anymore.) Congratulations on another milestone!
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