Towards the end of December, Harper began waking at night all of a sudden.  At first it was about once a night and then it turned into two and sometimes even three times a night. For the first week, I kept thinking maybe this was a short phase she was going through.  But this pattern continued and each time Harper woke, I would nurse her and she would go right back down so I figured it was Harper’s way of saying, she was hungry and breast milk alone was no longer keeping her little tummy full.  At the same time our new nanny had just started and we were getting ready to potty train the girls, so I was really trying to hold Harper out just a little longer so we weren’t introducing too much change at once into our household. After several weeks of waking up to feed Harper two or three times, I was becoming very tired and decided it was time to start solids.  We started with rice cereal.

I think her first feeding went relatively well.  I remember the girls first time eating and Justin being so distraught because they cried and pushed their food away and I remember him thinking they would never learn to eat.  Harper was quite the opposite…she enjoyed her rice cereal and took every opportunity to suck her thumb between bites because her hands were so messy with rice cereal that even her fingers tasted good.

We then tried banana, which is so far one of her favorites.

We have also tried peas….

…probably not one of her favorites to date (but we have only tried it once or twice)…

We have tried Sweet potato, which she enjoys.

And we have also tried green beans and prunes.  

In the last week and a half Harper had a little cold and became constipated, so we scaled back her food some and have been holding out on introducing more foods.  We’re just now getting back on track with a goal of eating twice a day for now.  As we have introduced foods, there has definitely been a noticeable change in the amount of milk she has been drinking…at least with her bottles she often leaves a lot leftover. Let’s hope Harper’s tummy feels good this week so we can introduce one or two more foods…maybe even some pear!