First Piper woke up with her front bottom right tooth finally though the gum (just a wee bit!). She seemed happy about this and wanted to celebrate by sleeping.
Have I mentioned how much my daughter loves/needs to sleep. I too would rather she want to play and go do "stuff" all day but no, she needs her sleep. You don't want to see her if she doesn't get it... but perhaps another blog about this sometime...
Anyway- hooray the tooth is here! Its so cute and little and white! I cant believe she already has a tooth!
After a couple naps Ty and I decided to let her have a go at eating (playing with) avocado. I am passionate about waiting to give babies food. Piper has been exclusively breastfeed since 5 mins after being born. I wanted to waited as long as possible so why did we decide to do it now???:
She is sitting up.
She got a tooth.
She is swallowing and digesting. (remember the posts about her unfortunately eating paper and dirt?)
She is reaching, grabbing and putting everything in her mouth.
She is hungry! Nursing OFTEN.
She is doing chewing movements.
She no longer has the reflex of spitting stuff out (whatever that is called)
By 6 months her gut is "closed".
However, I am not counting on her actually eating enough for any nutrition. This is just fun, practice, learning new sensations. And if she swallows some, ok. No rush. Breastmilk should be the primary source of nutrition until the age of 1.
I decided that organic avocado should be her first food. Why?
Rice cereal came along at the same time and same reasons as formula.
It is starch and added iron. Not much iron, if any will be absorbed. Therefore, no nutritional value.
It is a processed food... ie- not a WHOLE NATURAL FOOD which is what real FOOD is.
Rice cereal is a high glycemic food. Think sugar high. Think diabetes. Think BAD HABITS.
Avocado is whole and natural from the Earth.
It is easily digested.
It is packed with nutrition and GOOD FATS.
It is not sweet and sugary.
Its green. (this is just my opinion, not research. pi has seemed to like the color green. and no harm in kids liking green foods!)
So if this info can remind me for the next kid- cool. If it can help other parents... even better!
Here are the videos. Sorry they arent cut up in clips but... I HATE video editing but I know how much better they would be with some slow, serious flamenco music. (is flamenco ever slow?)
and the snap shots...
always analyzing...
squish!
feels funny..
weeeeee
Also, we went to the beach to try to get cute shots of Piper in heritsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini. We had been to the beach many times but it was only to walk (its been wintertime) and she was snuggled in her Ergo. This time she wasn't thrilled with the beach. The people, sun, wind, sand and waves seemed to be a bit much for our red head. She wanted to go home and sleep. Those pics are still on my Canon. I know... turns out being a mom is a really busy job.
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