Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | January 29, 2010

Or what passes for “solid” in the baby universe.  It’s really more mush.  Today, for the very first time, Samantha got to eat something other than formula from her bottle.  She had rice cereal!  It went pretty well, all things considered.  I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to eat for the first time when you are a baby. 

We strapped Sam into her new highchair, which we just got a few days ago.  I think she looks super cute all ready to go.  She actually looked really excited at first, especially when I put her bib on, which to Sam is always a sign of good things to come.

Sam was NOT too thrilled with the concept of a spoon in her mouth.  This is what she generally looked like with each spoonful.  You can just see her thinking, “Ewww…this is gross!”  Despite what it looks like, she wasn’t crying, just making faces!

A lot of it came out in the first few spoons, but she got a lot better at keeping it in her mouth.  After she sort of learned to keep the cereal in her mouth, she adjusted pretty well, and seemed happy. 

She ate a decent amount for her first time.  Tomorrow we will try again.  We are going to give her cereal twice a day so hopefully she will get used to it soon so she can move on to more tasty things like jarred fruits and veggies. 

After her meal, she looked happy, don’t you think?  But she was still happiest about getting her bottle, which she had a few minutes later.  I am proud of my little munchkin.  Go Samantha!

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pamelamyers | January 29, 2010

For a few weeks now, Sam has been making us crazy because she has learned to roll over onto her tummy from her back, but she can’t roll back. She cries and we have to keep going to rescue her.  It’s not a big deal during the day when she is just in her Pack and Play or on her mat, but at night when she is in her crib, and we are all trying to sleep, it can be really trying.

The other night she kept rolling onto her belly and she was really freaking out me and Mark because she would lie there looking sort of asleep, but with her face all smushed into the mattress.  So I kept rolling her back onto her back, and she’d go right back onto her belly again until she got so tired she’d just stay put on her back.

Well, last night she had a little trouble settling down, but she finally did at about 8:30 (she goes down at 7:00).  She was asleep on her side happy as could be.  I woke up at 2 o’clock this morning to feed Muffin (I was happy he let me sleep that long!) and I went to check on Sam, as I always do every time I wake up in the middle of the night.  I was shocked to see her snoozing away on her tummy with her head to the side, just like it was supposed to be!  She didn’t cry, at least not that I heard (and I hear every peep she makes, I swear), so she must have finally figured out how to move her head to the side on her own.  I checked on her every hour after that, I swear, I was so nervous.  But she did great!  After I fed her (at about 2:30 when she woke up) I put her back down on her back and she wound up sleeping on her tummy again.  Now if she could just figure out how to roll back onto her back when she wants to, we would be golden!

I plan on spending the next 4 days I have at home letting her spend as much time on her mat as possible so that she gets practice rolling around.  Hopefully, she will be a quick learner, as she usually is!  She looked really cute sleeping that way. I will have to take her picture.

Oh, and as a side note, tonight we are going to try cereal for the first time. Wish us all luck!

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