What a funny little eater

Our little guy is not so much on the eating of solid foods.  We're slowly getting him to try things, but for the most part he's not much into eating.   We've been trying all sorts of different foods to see what he might want.  And what does he seem to want to eat?  Tomatoes.  Raw tomatoes.  He has a fun time popping  a tomato in his mouth and squishing it around.

Robbie Likes Carrots

Our wee boy is in full on teething mode these days.  Even thought he has his miserable moments, he's still pretty cheerful.  He's a total drooly mess and I keep forgetting to put bibs on him so he goes through lots of onesies every day.  Thankfully he has tons of them :)

We've been trying lots of things to help with the teething.  The usual, cold cloth, cooled teething rings etc...  He's not so much into them.  But he does seem to like baby carrots fresh from the fridge.

I hold them and he gnaws on them.  They seem to fascinate him and make his gums fee better at the same time.  Who knew?  And I get the lovely present of a baby carrot covered in drool dip to eat.

Here's hoping that some of these teeth actually show up at some point so he doesn't have to be in pain so much anymore.  It seems like they are taking forever.  Mind you I don't really know how long they are supposed to take either.  

Another attempt with Food

I'm a little behind in posting news and photos of our wee Robbie.  Since the last time I posted we've been to Sick Kids for a neo-natal checkup.  During the course of the course of appointment we told them we had started a wee bit of food as per our regular doctors.  We were told that we should wait longer due to the preemie issues.  So we have decided to wait a little longer.  It's no biggie.  We had only tried him on food twice anyway.  But I did want to bring you a photo of the last time we tried giving him some food.

Wallpaper Paste! Yummy!

So today was the day we gave Robbie his first little bit of Rice Cereal.  When we were at the doctor last week, they suggested that since he's starting to get teeth we should start giving him a little bit of rice cereal.

  He didn't seem to enjoy the wallpaper paste..  I don't think I got very much of it into him as most of it drooled right back out.  I of course also forgot to put a bib on him so there was an outfit change right afterwards.  I guess we'll be trying this every day until he decided to actually swallow some voluntarily.

I'm having a bit of difficulty posting the video so hopefully it should be up soon.

Wow the formula samples just keep rolling in

It's interesting all the marketing we have been getting from many of the baby suppliers.  The formula companies in particular.  I keep getting rather large samples in the mail from the major formula makers.  We aren't actually using any, but we now have a stockpile in case we would ever need any.

I also find the literature funny.  It all says, "Breaksmilk is best" but if you choose..........  The foodbank or another infant centered organization is going to get a really good donation from us in the next couple of months or so.

Cranky Gassy Baby

We had a very cranky gassy baby here at the Parker household last night.  I barely got any sleep with the poor guy so unhappy.  Bruce and Grandma were very helpful in letting me get some sleep in the morning.

I did figure out why he was so unhappy.  I was not thinking the last day we were in the hospital and I got the hot spicy chickpeas for lunch from the cafeteria.  This translates to an unhappy baby.  So no more burn your mouth off food for me.

First Bottle

Today we tried bottle feeding the wee guy instead of the feeding tube.  The trouble with that is that he's pretty much asleep most of the time.  But on our third try at feeding him with a bottle, he got the idea and had about a third of the bottle.  He wasn't really awake so he would suck on the bottle a bit and then doze off again.  But I think we'll get there.