4 month check up/night #1 of swaddle weaning.. and other ramblings

JenJH923

So today I had Charlie's 4 month check up. He is 16 pounds 14 ounces, 25.5 inches long.. big boy! The pediatrician told me to start him on rice cereal (about a tablespoon per day) and any baby food I would like to try.  I told her I wanted to do baby led weaning and she does not support that at all. I am almost finished the BLW book and I really like the idea.  My husband is nervous to do BLW, my mom (who will watch Charlie 1-2 mornings per week over the summer) is too nervous to do BLW and starting in September I will have a babysitter 1-2 mornings per week, so I am feeling like BLW is not the best choice for our situation.

All that being said, I still do not want to give Charlie rice cereal. I feel like that is pointless if he is still getting formula and gaining weight just fine. I have always heard "Food before 1 is just for fun" so it's not like I am needing something to give him the nutrition he needs. I would rather just give him fruits/veggies/meat and skip the cereal. Did anybody do this? Up until this point I have been saving BLW recipes and such, so I didn't even look into cereals and baby food.

 

I have been looking up ways to wean from the swaddle online and decided to jump into it tonight. I swaddled Charlie with 1 arm out- so far he has been asleep for almost 2 hours, hopefully it will last! Anybody else getting ready to try to wean from the swaddle?

A quick follow up to my video monitor PSA from the other day- I take back the entire post. The video monitor worked for about the first 3 hours (while I wrote the post) and then stopped! It said "No Signal". I looked it up online and there were tons of reviews saying if you have wireless internet, apple/mac products or house phone it could interrupt the signal for the video monitor. It only worked when I was standing in his room, kinda defeats the purpose of the monitor lol.  I returned it today!

Phew.. long winded post!

Lizg1799

We cold turkey lost the swaddle last night.  I just can't justify expecting him to self soothe at some point if I won't give him his hands to so.  He's a wiggly mess but he got the hang of it after playing around with his hands for about 30 minutes in his crib.  We are on to night 2 of no swaddle and so far so good.  He sucks his hands so I know that he is comforted by having access to his hands now.  

heymommy

I think the rice cereal is just a baby step to other foods, not really source of food just to start other textures. I'm not sure what to think about the BLW it all seems sort of new and maybe a "trend" or the new thing to do. You can still offer all those foods just not first thing. I was looking at my older DD baby book the other day and she was eating some softer mushy foods way before one year. I think it's always been done its just been done later and it never really had a name.  Keep your recipes.

kristin172429

We will be skipping rice cereal and going right to foods like avocado, sweet potato, etc.  If we use any cereal at any point, it will be whole grain or brown rice.  We aren't planning on starting until he is 6 months.