wish i'd come here sooner

I also agree to stop the food (applesauce and cereal) for a while. Give her excema and her gut a chance to heal.

Since she is pretty interested in the spoon, give her that to play with while you eat If you think she is enjoying the 'eating' while you eat, you could express some breastmilk and freeze it into cubes. Give her a cube in one of those mesh bag feeders.

A baby should start food when they are ready, not because they are 6 months. She will do great on your breastmilk alone (fed on demand of course).

Thank you wonderful ladies!

I stopped rice cereal yesterday. She slept BETTER than she had in over a month! So much for "It will help her sleep thru the night." She slept til 5:10 AM on MY MILK!

Apple sauce is obviously out, I was considering keeping the cereal but I think she would do fine w/o it... I dont know , I guessed I couldnt stop once I started? But what does cereal and apple sauce have over my protein, fat, etc etc rich milk? AAP even reccommends waiting to 6 mos. OH! I wish I had heard of just giving her spoons and bowls to play with or some expressed BM. She is totally interested in HOW we eat, not WHAT we eat.

Yes, she has had her 2 and 4 mo vac. She was really horrible after the 4 mo, so I asked the doc about spacing her remaining vac, but they only do 2 vax at 6 mos. I dont know enough to say no to them, I was considering that but my mom reminded me of my Great aunts (4 of them) that died of child hood diseases, so I got them. All but HepB because seriously, she is not out having unprotected sex or doing IV drugs. Hep B for a baby, IMO, is just silly. I have to get educated on the others though. I just dont know enough about Vax. I am constantly learning

I feel like SUCH AN IDIOT. DD had an unexplained apnea episode the day after we started rice cereal. She was basically lying on her mat, eyes open, and it took me a while to "wake her up" I thought she had SIDS. It did not look like she was breathing (although, she was not blue) She has been on a monitor this month but it looks like it was an isolated episode.

I asked 2 docs if it was the cereal, and they said no. I am thinking it may have been. Why are we so easy to trust someone just because they have an MD?

Also, I have been really stressed about food lately, like, giving her applesauce and the cereal is SUCH A CHORE. And I keep thinking, esp. for the applesauce, why is this a problem? You open a jar, you feed her a few bites, thats it! Now I think it is because I didnt think she was ready but got pushed into it by well meaning people.

JUST like the epi at the hospital. I totally need to listen to my instincts!

Thank you.