Day 30 – Breakfast

When baby has been sick you typically don’t sleep well. Either baby being upset, you worrying, or just everything will just about keep you awake most of the night. And not in a way that you get to binge Netflix or something either.

As a result, I burned what should have been a simple breakfast. We had left over waffles from yesterday and I popped them in the toaster oven to heat them up for us. I then went to grab yogurt as a side and figure out a fruits since I still wasn’t dealing with vegetables and wanted to keep things on the bland side for Malina.

The waffles became so hard and dark, I don’t know where my head was. I tried to make up for it with toast but found we were out of bread.

With being 2-0 I grabbed the easiest thing left. Plain cereal O’s. Fortified with Iron of course and with reduced sodium.

So that was breakfast. Cereal, strawberry yogurt, and blueberries in the silicone feeder. It took me an hour from getting up to do this too, so yeah. Not my best day.

Malina didn’t care though, she was happy to be feeling better and happy to see the food put down on her tray.

The little things make me feel better about the sucky parts.

I think she expects good things from the feeders because she’s started going for them first when offered. I was kinda worried though since these were blueberries and she hasn’t liked them at all.

Much to my surprise and great joy, she ate them and really liked them. It makes me think the problem might be the skins of the blueberries. Which means I have a way to deal with the bag of frozen blueberries now too. Win-win.

Next, Malina tried to eat the plain cereal O’s. She has gotten a lot more dexterous and is able to pick things up easier, but she’s still working on developing that pincer grasp. She did get a few o’s up though and into her mouth.

I think she liked them but she was not happy with the challenge of eating them. She ate a couple and then threw and pushed the rest around.

So we moved on to her strawberry yogurt.

Haven’t found a flavor combination she doesn’t like for her yogurts yet. She seemed to enjoy the strawberry flavor and then moved on to chewing up her spoon.

Still, she ate some of everything and even though this was on the unplanned side of things she did well with it.

So remember, even when your exhausted and can’t cook to save your life, you’re doing great and you’ve got this!

-Erica