solids or should I say PUREE!!

As a mum, your baby's weight becomes a focus point to obviously see that they are thriving. Duke's baby doctor check up at 6 weeks was something that stuck in my mind. He was underweight. by only 200g but it has stuck with me. Its also hard not too compare your baby with others and compared to other boys his age he wasn't as big. Little Duke could breastfeed well but not for long (what the books recommended anyway) and I had no idea what he was actually getting Mls wise. Eating on the boob hasn't been his strong point but stoked we got too 4.5 months.


As soon as he showed me he wanted the bottle (milk had dried up), he has LOVED it and started to reach out, grab his bottle and guide it into his mouth to drink, and from him being in the bottom 25% percentile this was exciting for me. But if you fed him 1/2 hour too early he wouldn't drink it, but give him 20 mins and he'll cry he'll wolf the whole bottle.Like his mum he likes to eat (well ok eat and drink!)

I could also finally see how much he is taking in and he is putting weight on more consistently. Such a relief. I wanna have a chubba bubba!!
He had some strange stages on the boob which would stump me and I had rung Ngala about...sometimes he cracked it , and I mean crack it when I put him near the boob??!! So confusing at the time but looking back I think sometimes he just wasn't hungry sometimes as we sometimes are and this is evident when you give him the bottle earlier than when he actually wants it!!

So the next step is solids. most books to hold out for 6 months, "Save our sleep" said try at 4 months some rice cereal so I was willing to try anything for D to bulk out.


tried the Farax rice cereal but was happy to taste it but showed not much interest.looked gross.


Z, my bestie recommended the "Raffety's Garden" cereal. Unreal. Lets give it a crack.

I tried it first and YUM. CJ tried it- "that's good." Duke took to this like a duck to water. Fed this to him after his 7-7.30 bottle. I now secretly eat this as a snack. cant wait too try it with banana.

Duke starts too have cereal with his lunchtime bottle and at 5pm.

Next stage. Homemade Puree.

I tried the Heinz Apple puree and duke hated it. Screwed up his face, so funny. hated my apple verson too. Uh oh.

Went to Z +C's house and he had some pumpkin and sweet potato puree. Bingo. Ate all of it.

Ok it's time to pull out the unused kitchen aid for a arvo of puree. such a bugger to clean up. Made batches and froze them in ice trays for easy storage.
(It's also heaps easier to feed them with a skinny long spoon. I bought the Tomme Tippe one as it was a pack of three but heaps of other brands do them too)

Duke starts to get a bit stuffed up with all the pumpkin and cereal, the grunting gives this away as does his little poos. he has to get some fruit into him!! Tried my homemade fruit purees and looks like Matt preston trying them.

next step- back to supermarket and I take a punt on the Apple, Pear and Cinnamon.

After pouring it straight onto the spoon no mess, no peeling, cleaning up -this is the best $1.6 Ive spent in ages....and drum roll after a couple of goes Duke loves this after his dinner and has freed up his grunting! problem solved. This stuff rocks. Bought 12 packs of it today. Nice and easy what more could you want??!!

Here is rough description of a typical day in the life of Duke @ 5 mnths

6-6.30 wake

7-7.30 bottle. cereal @ 8-8.30

8.30-9 sleepies

10.30-11.30 wake and Play

11.30-12 Bottle

12.30 Pumpkin followed by apple

1pm sleepies

2-2.30 wake and play time

3.3o- 4 Bottle

4-5 nap (sometimes won't want one but needs it)

5pm Pumpkin followed by apple

5.30 duke loves us reading him books

6-6.30 Bath, bottle bed by 7pm

11pm-1.30am Bottle

Love Soph n duke

xxx