Starting Solids with Lucy

The day Lucy turned four months old I wanted to try giving her some baby rice cereal.  I was so excited for her to be trying her first solids.  Lucy, however, wasn't so keen.  She didn't quite know what to do with this weird stuff in her mouth and it ended up being a messy job.  At the same time, we were having some breast feeding issues and unfortunately Lucy wasn't gaining the weight that she should.  So the solids were put on hold for a while.

I tried her again at five months and this time she was much more interested.  I found it really difficult to work out what foods to introduce when and found myself doing a lot of research.  There are so many different opinions out there and it took me ages to formulate a plan as to how we would progress.  Being the teacher that I am, I typed up a meal plan for Lucy, printed it out, stuck it on the fridge and highlighted what was eaten each day ... I am a highlighter addict!

Here is the meal plan ...