I have a new find up here in the beautiful Lake Tahoe region. I found the most beautiful, perfect, amazing, breathtaking beach! I'm usually not one for the beach, suprising, I know. I find it funny so many people usually love the beach. I could usually pass a day at the beach, at least the typical beach. Smelly like salt water, gritty sand that sticks to everywhere and loves to hide in your crack (the kind you still find after a couple days, in the shower). Lots of people, the idea of sharks, loud crashing out of control waves etc. Anyway, this beach is amazing. It's like the carribean but in the mountains. The water is crystal clear, green, blue beautiful, the sand is perfect and just brushes off instead of sticking to everything.......people are relatively calm, the water is the perfect temperature, no sharks, no icky smells, no crazy waves.
It's Sand Harbor, my new favorite place. Many may have been there before, it's known as one of Lake Tahoe's epic beaches. It's quite amazing. So, if anyone makes it up our way, we'd love to take you to a day at the beach. It's only about a 1/2 an hour drive.
Anna also has a new find! Rice cereal! We wanted to wait until she was 6 months old but this girl is just growing and growing and growing! I went to the lactation consultant to ask some questions about how many ounces I should be giving her, starting solids, etc. We've been giving her a 5 ounce bottle, she's ok with it usually, but lately has been getting really mad when she finishes it! So, we switched back to the level 1 nipples so she has to work a little harder for all that yummy milk and per the lactation consultant, we have a big girl at 14 pounds even who needs 6-7 ounces. She's also waking up in the night again consistently, at different times genuinely hungry. The L.C. suggested we start a couple teaspoons of rice cereal just once a day for the next month to see if that ties her over a little bit. We don't have any allergies in our family, she's soooooooooo eager to eat, pulling anything off our plates she can, sitting up well, has good double hand control to the mouth, and no extrusion reflex. She's eating like a champ and so proud of herself that she gets to eat with us at the dinner table. Again, I really really really wanted to wait, talked to the L.C. about how much I wanted to wait until 6 months to the recommendation of the american academy of pediatrics. She eased my mind by encouraging me that if cereal will hold her over, we can avoid formula, but Anna's little body requires something a little more, or more milk which I am just not producing! Anyway, I will post some pictures soon.....So much to learn. Did you know you should avoid carrots and spinach unless it's made by a baby food company because of the high nitrate levels and only the baby food companies monitor their nitrate levels. Crazy! I do know I'll be making my own baby food........
There are so many questions and ways to start solids. Everyone says something different about it. Mommy friends, what do you think? How did you start solids, what foods did you start first? Yellow veggies, green veggies, fruits, grains? How much, how often?
