Another chapter...solid foods!

We've moved on to the solid foods leg of our journey.  How fun!  We did rice cereal at first, and then moved on to oatmeal cereal.  We switched after about five days, because the rice cereal was causing some constipation issues.  After a few days on the oatmeal cereal, the constipation issues cleared up.  I saved the rice cereal to mix eventually with more high fiber foods like sweet potatoes.

I also started making and freezing my own baby food this week.  I went by Whole Foods and bought some organic butternut squash, sweet potatoes, peas, and green beans.  I got the squash and the sweet potatoes fresh, and the green stuff I bought frozen.  I wanted to get the peas and the beans fresh, too, but the thought of shelling peas and snapping beans was just too much for me.  I make all my baby food at night after the tot has gone to sleep, and it just seemed like so much work to do after 8pm.  Frozen works just as well, I've found, and it was super easy!  I love my Fresh Baby So Easy Baby Food Trays.  I bought two sets of two, and that has worked great in my baby food making journey.  Even when the four trays aren't enough to hold all of my creations at times, I just refrigerate the overflow until I can freeze them in trays after I've washed them.  It works so great!  The only food I have bought pre-made from the store is carrots.  I'll continue to purchase them until Oliver is seven months old (due to the unregulated nitrate content of soils, even on organic farms), and then I'll make my own at home.

It's been really awesome, and I am looking forward to continuing on this path.  I never thought I'd be so...I don't know...crunchy?  Cloth diapering and making my own baby food...it seems so trendy that I want to throw up.  I do get the satisfaction of doing what I feel is best for my child, and that is awesome!!  I'll take being "trendy" if it means I get to give my baby the best.  =)  Hooray!

Our next big step will be to move to the four hour schedule.  It should be happening soon...once we get established on all solids, I think dropping a liquid feeding will be okay as long as we add an ounce to each of the other feedings.  We'll only lose like, an ounce overall.  Then we'll gradually decrease the liquid feedings. 

In other news, Levi was super sweet this weekend, and tried to help out by stuffing diapers for me.  I really appreciated the thought, but all of his diapers leaked!  I think he didn't get the inserts flat enough, and that led to the leaks.  Daddy is now banned from stuffing diapers.  He can stick with unloading the dishwasher and scooping the litter box to help me.  =)  Humorous cloth diapering daddy story over, lol.

Hope you are all doing well!