Now that the baby is six months old, I got the go ahead to start him on solid food. I had been just starting to give him cereal but now it’s on to bigger and better things.

Carrots were the first on the list, as you should start kids on veggies before fruits. Babies will like fruit because of the sweetness, so it may make it harder when it comes time for veggies if that’s all they know.

Well today my little one was looking so sad at the lunch table, eyeing his brothers food, that I decided to pull out the fresh food feeder and see how he did with a banana. They are just mesh pouches that allow babies to suck on the food without risk of any choking at all.

He loved it. Of course he didn’t really understand what he was doing, just that whatever he was sucking on was tasting good. Anyhow, I would recommend trying them if you have a wee one ready for food!

My gorgeous son is now almost 4 months old, about 6 days left to go. Recently people have been commenting on his size, most saying how big he is, asking in jest what I’m feeding him, saying he definitely doesn’t look like a 3 month old.

Since this is my second child, it doesn’t bother me at all, but guess what…it used to. With my first son, there came a point where the same comments were made. He had large rolls of fat on him, I look at pictures now and am amazed. But when people made comments, it truly worried me.

Was I feeding him too much, was he just a really large baby, was I doing something wrong. Now I view it much differently. Having a chubby baby, in my humble view point, is a wonderful thing!

As long as a baby stays within the acceptable limits of weight (set only by your pediatrician), then there isn’t much to worry about. The extra weight can also be a help if your child gets sick, as children tend to lose weight when they are ill.

So now when people comment on my chubby baby I just comment back, “Ya, isn’t it beautiful!”

We’ve been waiting to see if our new bundle of joy would end up with colic like his brother. So far he doesn’t, and we are very grateful. But my husband is now in the habit of saying our new one is spoiled. Most of the time when he cries, which isn’t very often, he just wants to be held. I’m fine with this, but my husband says we are spoiling him. I keep telling him you can’t spoil a newborn, but he disagrees. So I decided to research it and see if you really can spoil them… Read the rest of this entry »