Braeden Graduates

Braeden has graduated to fruits and veggies as of today. A bit early, but his doctor said it's time. He was constipated again over the weekend, even though he's been off cereal for the past week. So I called his pediatrician this morning, and she said that with a lot of formula-fed babies she recommends skipping the cereal entirely if there's a problem, and going straight to #1 peas or green beans, in addition to pear or prune juice, to give him the extra fiber his little body is obviously craving, even though he's only 5 months and 1 week old.

So this morning he had his first 2 tablespoons of peas, and he loved them. DH is picking up some pear juice on his way home from work tonight, and we'll start that. Braeden's to have 1-2 tablespoons of #1 peas and 1-2 tablespoons of pear juice 3 times a day for 5 days, to be sure he's not allergic to either, then we can switch to the green beans and real #1 pears. I think we'll skip the prune juice if the pear juice works. So he's arrived at yet another milestone.

He woke me up at 5:30 this morning (his usual time) talking away to himself. I turned on the video monitor, and all I could see was the bottom of his sleep sack. Somehow during the night he moved around so his head was at the foot of his crib, his feet where his head was supposed to be. When I went into his room and turned on his lamp, there he was smiling at me, looking kind of like the cat who ate the canary. I moved him back into his normal sleeping position (we've got a waterproof cover over that area to avoid any spit-up problem) while I mixed his formula. After he downed that and had his little constipated bowel movement, he happily went back to sleep for another hour, before I got him up for his morning DVD and tummy time.

Aunt Y. was here over the weekend. She brought him a new toy - a tractor, with 3 stackable farm animals. It's for ages 6 months and up, but Braeden's already batting it around, knocking the animals off the tractor, then picking up the tractor to stick the wheels in his mouth. He has no idea yet what to do with the toy, but he seems to like it so far. She also brought him some new socks, and two adorable outfits - one for 12 months, the other for 18 months. It was great seeing her again. We try and have her over for a visit close to each monthly birthday, and we've asked her to be one of his God Mothers at his baptism, which will be sometime in May. She cried when we asked her - she's never had that happen before, and she was very touched that we'd ask her.

I'll post again after I see what happens with Braeden eating peas and drinking pear juice. Hopefully it'll solve his constipation problem and he won't be allergic to them so we can move on to green beans and real pears (instead of juice).