Solids already?

So I can't believe it but it's now time for baby W to actually start eating solids. We started off with rice cereal strictly because the doctor told us we have to. It was just to teach him how to eat and how to swallow food. I probably would not have started him on the rice cereal but I am one of those people who follows the doctors orders. The first 3 days were to teach him how to use a spoon because let's face it - he didn't swallow anything. The four after that were to see if he was allergic to the cereal. After seven days we started giving him different foods. We first started off with peas. He loved it… But after the fourth day he was like all right I'm done. I have heard that you can give them food over 3 days buy per our pediatrician we went four days. You could totally tell that he enjoyed eating the food, however, he wanted to see what else is out there. So on the fifth day of him with his new food we switches foods again… And it was great! We actually ended up giving him peaches as his third solid. After that he ate  mangoes. 

How did we decide what food to give him? Well, first off... I did not make his original tasting food. Why? Because I didn't want to go and make a ton of food for him especially if he wasn't going to like it. I wanted to buy separately because you only give the him 2 tablespoons with their first trying food. So I wanted him to use the squeeze packets. I poured it into a bowl and fed him off a spoon and not right out of the  packet. I ended up buying two packets of each mix. So it would be two mangoes. It would be two plums. It would be two peaches. In the beginning I measured it by tablespoons, but now I can estimate that half a packet W will eat. So I can have a packet and I would feed him and then I would watch him and I try to give it to him about two hours before his bedtime. That way if he did have an allergic reaction it was while he was awake and not while he was sleeping. the rice cereal became his breakfast. His typical day looks like this now 

4 month old schedule:

2:00/2:30- nurse

5 AM nurse

*Back to sleep

8:30 AM – nurse +2 tablespoons of rice cereal ( I wait 30 minutes before I give him the cereal. That way his milk will digest)

*nap at 9:30/10 - really just power naps -

11:30/noon - 4 to 5 ounces of breast milk or formula 

*nap at 12:30/1 - power nap again

2:30/3:00- 4 to 5 ounces of breast milk or formula 

Sometimes he took a quick nap from 5

530 tablespoons of food

645 P.m. rest milk and then he went to sleep.

His five month schedule is looking a tad bit different so when it gets solidified I will post about it! Hopefully this helped some of you and any questions you had about how to start solids and a 4 month olds schedule.