Things don’t always go according to plan. You’d think that after life in general, my pregnancy, birth, and the last six months this would be something I am familiar with and expect. Nope.
I am a planner. I like lists. BLW is a great way to apply both of those things and this blog helps me get back into the swing of writing everyday (because I am a writer, from before Malina was born). So the plan today was scrambled eggs but guess who got tied up all day yesterday and forgot to go to the store?
<—— ME
So no eggs, no problem. Except I also didn’t have time last night to do meal prep because my eye had swollen almost shut and I needed to hold a compress on it for half an hour before I was too tired to do so. My eye is at lest a lot better this morning. Only about half as swollen.
The next thing that threw a wrench in any plans to do some prep this morning was Malina waking up for the day at 5:20. So I changed her, fed her, and proceeded to convince her that it was still sleepy time and she should go back to sleep. She accepted after an hour and I just let her sleep in my arms because she needed the sleep and I was already up plus it was 7.
So when she got up again, 7:40 ish. She needed another feeding before we could do breakfast. And because I did not want our schedule to be any more disrupted I opted for the easy option.
I reheated the zucchini from yesterday since I had it and the recipe claimed it reheated well (it does not). I pulled out a small sample pouch of baby cereal. Then I grabbed the plain Greek yogurt from the fridge.
Plain because baby. Greek because it supposedly is the sweetest plain yogurt without the actual sugar (more lies). I was told regular plain yogurt is more tart and sour, so now I’m going to make sure I find out if that is true.
Mama had the rest of the yogurt, zucchini smush, and a strong cup of earl grey as we sat down around 8:20.
Malina felt about the same as she did yesterday when confronted with the zucchini. Maybe even a little better than yesterday, since it wasn’t as crunchy. She did eat a couple bites either way, so that’s a win.
The cereal was a lot harder for her to deal with. If I’m being honest, I only gave it to her because I didn’t have anything else ready and I knew it might be too hard for her to grab and eat. She got frustrated and i intervened. Then I had the brilliant idea to put it with the yogurt I had waiting for her in a separate bowl.
This went over way better. Malina actually liked the yogurt which made me so happy. With everything going wrong it was nice to see her actually enjoy one of the foods we’ve introduced for once.
I helped her get about four bites of just yogurt and two more with the cereal. She ate most of those bites, with only a bit coming back out of her mouth into her bib. Despite yogurt being a “messy” food, Malina was the cleanliest eater today and did not get food anywhere besides her bib, hands, and tray. Though we did have a scare when both of us found out her bowl does not suction to the tray (because something had to go wrong and now I need a different bowl).
At least the yogurt was not very runny (probably because of the cereal) and did not fall out of the bowl and onto Malina’s lap as she seemed to want.
So we got yogurt down as something she likes, mushy zucchini as a preference, and cereal is okay if mixed in yogurt. Cool.
Maybe having an off day can be a good thing. So remember, you are doing great and you’ve got this!
-Erica
Malina’s BLW Food Adventures 