Hello everyone..long time no speak! I seriously have no idea where time goes. We are great here. Grace is doing wonderfully.She started to cut her first tooth the other day, I can feel it and see that the gum is broken but can't really see the tooth yet, not that she lets me look in her mouth much! We had a few restless nights before it broke through the gum but it has settled down now, she is really hard to get to sleep though. Just keeping up the bonjella. Gave her brauers teething stuff today and it did nothing at all! She rolls absolutely everywhere and manages to get into anything and everything. she's a quick roller too. She has found all the cd's and dvd's which she loves to pull of the shelf, I say no to her in a stern voice and move her away and she laughs at me and rolls back again! She obviously doesn't know what no means yet, but hoping she will learn soon. She does look cute pulling everything off the shelf though! Very hard to say no to her but i know that I have to or we will be in trouble later on.

In regards to the solids thing. Grace has 3 meals a day plus 4 breast feeds. For breakfast she has either 3 tbsp rice cereal (farex) or organic oats mixed with half a tin of pureed fruit...often she will finish the tin of fruit afterward. For lunch she has a whole jar of something if we are out. If we are at home she sometimes has 100g tub of baby yoghurt, whole tin fruit (she will eat a whole mango) with custard. Like to mix it up a bit. for dinner she usually has vegies that are fork mashed with little chunky bits...the only things that we puree are green beans and corn as they are too hard to fork mash. We encourage her to chew, she occasionally gags but does overcome this. My MCHN told us that we should stop pureeing food quite quickly so that they get used to chewing. We have also given her pasta this week (heinz make a baby pasta the perfect size for over 7 month olds) and i made a sauce of tinned tomotoes, carrot, zucchini and green beans and then pureed the sauce and served over the pasta. she loved it. We don't go by cubes as i make her vegie's fresh every night but she usually has around 3/4 cup of food, give or take depending on her mood and how tired she is. I believe you can start meat (protein) once they are established on fruit and vegies. A book a friend has (the contented little baby) and my MCHN said that they can start on this anytime from 7 months. Corn does have nutritional value in the form of vitamins but that is about it, it isn't digested well though so i would probably avoid it if your baby is still getting used to solids, iykwim.

Seems that everyone is doing really well. It is amazing the variations in developement isn't it. I do try to get online to keep up with everyone. Is everyone planning an exciting first christmas with their gorgeous babies? Can't believe it is only 2 months away. Take care.