Solid food has been something of an adventure. More times than not, as much seems to get on Logan, his immediate surroundings, and us, as gets in his belly. At our most recent pediatrician visit, he weighed in at 14lbs 2oz. This is still very small, and puts him in the lower range of normal, but the doctor says that despite his stature, he’s still healthy. Regardless, of this fact, Cameron is concerned about a variety of potential reasons for his low weight, and among those is that he simply isn’t getting enough nutrition from breast milk.
I don’t that that’s the case, but this is about the time when it makes the most sense to start weaning him onto real people food. Starting in July Cameron will be going back to work for some amount of time, and the logistics of maintaining a breast milk only diet will become too complicated and stressful to manage.
So we’ve upped the puree food dosage to two pucks at a sitting instead of one. This is about 4 teaspoons, give or take. Even doubling up on the dosage, we still have several weeks of food left from our original batches, so we’re still eating avocado, butternut squash, and sweet potatoes. I’m still startled at how easy it was to do, how cheap it was, and how much it yielded. I’m not sure why anyone buys babyhood.
We had been eating sitting in the Bumpo chair but that caused some complications. The soft Bumpo allowed Logan to pivot around an awful lot and he’s easily distracted. He’d lean off to the side and try to pluck at the floor. Or, since his feeder had to sit on the floor with him, with legs splayed out on either side for maximum comfort, he’d pluck at our legs. This would leave small undocumented smears of pureed food in unusual and hard to find places about the legs and ankles. Fortunately, we’ve since procured a high chair and the ease and comfort of this task has improved dramatically, although it has not alleviated substantially the novelty of discovering dried squash in unusual locations.
