Eating Update

Shortly after my last post, we made a huge change in Abby's eating habits. After several nights of her crying for hours at bedtime and the absence of regular dirty diapers, I decided to try an experiment to see if regular store-bought food worked better on her tummy. I didn't realize just how little variety the baby food section offers, but we found enough to make a week's menu. It took her a few days to get used to the cereal options, but she then settled in nicely. I think she even started to enjoy breakfast. The homemade food got her used to chunkier food so we were able to try the stage 3 stuff right away. On occasion she gags, but really she has made the switch wonderfully. It was a little hard to pay out $30 for a week's food that I knew I could make for much less but I think her body did better with the store food. We also moved right in to table food. She will try EVERYTHING we put down for her and that is such a treat. The only thing we have found that she doesn't like, so far, is animal crackers. Go figure. But if that is the worst we have to deal with, we'll take it.