Wow. Bad hair day, huh? Around here we call that Crazy Baby Hair.
Anyway, we have officially started the weaning process. Last week I successfully cut out a whole feeding. It was kind of like a snack in the early evening before dinner, so now we play the distract-the-baby game until dinner where she sits up at the table with us and gets a full meal. And I do mean full. Three courses plus dessert. A protein, a starch, a vegetable, and fruit for her treat. Really, I have no idea where she puts everything. She’s so little, and the amount of food she can put away is astonishing.
So that’s our biggest success so far. Maggie also now gets solid food of whatever sort before nursing at every meal. Breakfast she has oatmeal and then breastfeeds. First lunch salad and cheese and then nursing. Second lunch after her nap, yogurt and fruit and then breastmilk. Dinner courses. Bedtime snack nursing. The plan is to put cow’s milk in between the real food and nursing, each time increasing the amount of milk and decreasing the amount of breastmilk. Before you know it, a fully weaned baby! Hmm. We’ll see how that goes.
She had her first taste of straight cow’s milk this morning. She’s been having milk cooked in oatmeal for awhile now, but this was her first “raw” experience. She wasn’t too keen on the taste. She made a big face and just let it dribble down her chin. No amount of Mommy pretending to drink it and like it was going to convince her otherwise. Okay. Try again later. As an appetizer before first lunch I mixed three spoonfuls of banana puree with a generous splash of milk and she gobbled that up out of her sippy cup right away. And so far, hours later, no digestive ills.
I’m encouraged. Maggie is such a bright, confident baby. Pretty soon she’ll be a bright, confident little girl.
Magrilless 
What a big girl! Sarah wasn't keen on the milk at first either. I found the organic tasted the best for her, of course it can break the bank. I also let it warm up before giving it to her right out of the frig. And Ovaltine also helped 😉 I figure it has lots of vitamins and minerals.
how's mag's weening going…with all the food she is scarfing down you'd think she was a giant. no, just a cute little Maggie.
as far as plain milk….phew…i still can't drink just plain milk.. now add an Oreo and off we go. did you think of that???? maybe offer Maggie an Oreo and she if she does't just drink that milk down.
in anticipation of having a 'mild tolerant Maggie” I've begun checking out eggnog ice cream receipts. what do you think of that…?
anyway, hope the weening is going well. hang in there.