Clara's First Rice Cereal

Although Clara has shown none of the "traditional" signs of being ready for solid foods (not satisfied with breast milk alone, doubled birth weight - ha!, opening mouth for spoon, showing interest in grown ups eating, etc.) we were encouraged to go ahead and try to start her off a little early with rice cereal, then veggies and fruits.  The hope is that she'll catch on sooner rather than later and we'll be able to get even more calories in her that way.  The good news is that she's taking some rice cereal mixed with breast milk in a bottle every day.  So she's getting some of it that way.  I can't say we've made much progress towards Open-Close-Swallow with the spoon feeding yet.  Every meal still looks pretty much like this first one....

Fortunately, not every meal ends like this...