To eat or not to eat?

Alaina has been unsatisfied lately with eating. She just could not get enough to eat! That was all she was doing was eating! So I called our pediatrician and he suggested we start giving her cereal by a spoon. So, that Friday night we went to Wal-mart to get cereal. I was so excited that I was going to start feeding Alaina with a spoon and before I put her to bed, I told her how exciting the next day was going to be. Yeah, right!

I started feeding her that morning. The cereal was the consistency of formula and she could not get enough, quick enough. So she cried. Real tears -- something that we do not see much of! So I gave up and gave her a bottle.

I tried again at lunch time. Once again she cried tears. At this point I also cried. So I decided to forget it, worrying that we were not doing the right thing by putting the cereal in a bottle. But Daniel assured me that we do not ALWAYS have to do what the pediatrician says.

Here are a few pictures of her eating, before she started crying.






Over the next couple of weeks we all tried - my mom, mother in law and me - to feed Alaina with a spoon and it did get better after we made the consistency of the cereal thicker and Alaina adjusted to the spoon!

Wow! Motherhood is hard!