Mean Green Beans

After a week of successfully eating rice cereal in his bottle, Q was ready to move on. We tried rice cereal with a spoon and he did okay, but clearly didn't like it. I tasted the stuff and decided there would be no motivation for me to learn to eat with a spoon if I was getting mush. So we continued with the cereal in with the formula and decided to start veggies today. The pedeatrician reccommened starting veggies about a week after the cereal.

So today we fed Q some green beans. He doesn't have the tongue/swallow skill down yet, but I did not get the look of "you crazy woman" that I did with rice cereal and spoon! We thought that if there were something tasty on the spoon, it might help. And I think that it did. He hasn't spit any up yet or projectile vomited, so we are hoping it will be successful. He did have a HUGE poo afterwards that was actually the color and texture of what was put in his mouth about 20 mins earlier. I really don't think it was anything but coinscidence. He has blowouts often, but we usually smell them and can get him cleaned up before things get too bad. Well, today he was sitting in the bumbo, happy as a lark. We were about to leave so I went to get him to put him in the car seat, and that is when I saw it...poo coming out of his pants, all on his socks...in the bumbo, overflowing onto the couch.

Q got a midday bath and it took me about 45 mins to soak his clothes, clean up the changing table, scrub down the couch and bumbo, throw away the onsie that he had on under his outfit, start the laundry with the remaining poo stained items, and change my shirt, also covered in poo. I don't think that the mean green beans were the cause of the blowout, but time will tell.