We celebrated Ryan's half birthday by introducing him to baby food! His first meal? Bananas!
Big Brother Ian helped slice the bananas into small pieces. Then, we used the baby food mill to blend it all up. (Since then, we've gotten a nice, new mini food processor from Grammy and Papa! :))
Ian and Momma gave the pureed bananas our stamp of approval.
We all took turns feeding Ryan the food. He was a little unsure and hesitant at first.
But after the first bite, he didn't look QUITE so repulsed.
And then Ryan started looking relatively pleasant.
He ended up eating just about all of the 1-2 Tbsp. or so we prepared for him.
Yummy!!
Since then, though, Ryan hasn't been quite so happy about foods. Whether it's banana, rice cereal, oatmeal, peas, sweet potatoes, or avocado, Ryan will generally keep his mouth tightly clamped when we try to feed him something on a spoon! When he does open his mouth (sometimes accidentally), he'll look repulsed and spit out most of what was on the spoon. Other times he seems to be gagging on whatever puree we've tried to feed him. Just in the last few days, we've seen a little progress. He actually opened his mouth a few times for today's sweet potatoes! We KNOW he'll get it ... we'll keep trying! :)
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