13 August

Yes, another interesting week.

Despite me saying that he should start solids when he is six months corrected, this week he was advised to start! (He was 5 months corrected yesterday). So, on Wednesday, he had some rice cereal, which went down very well - eventually. He does OK when you spoon food in, but much better if he's allowed to hold and suck on the spoon. The spoon needs to be upside-down, though, so he can get at the food.

Thursday he took 2t of rice cereal, and we tried carrot on Friday - loved it. We could probably have kept on spooning it into him - but we weren't too keen to overload his bowel so early! Saturday he took carrot again - double the amount he had the day before (4 teaspoons over two 'meals'). Yesterday he had one 'meal' of 2 teaspoons of carrot, and another of 4 teaspoons of rice cereal. He actually is anticipating the spoon a little (occasionally). The plan is to try a new food every three days, but keep going with the other ones as well. We have kumara, pumpkin and zucchini all cooked & ready to go (easier to cook it all at once, then freeze it. If he doesn't like it - well, no great loss). He's still continuing with his bottles - always between 450 and 550ml per day - sometimes slightly less, sometimes slightly more.

He is getting better at 'tummy time' - is lifting his head a reasonable amount, and is also starting to try and lift his legs as well. It could be the beginning of a crawl motion - we'll see.

He visited his bowel surgeon - who is great - and he is fine not to see Max again until he's 18 and can buy the doc a beer at the Adelaide Oval on the first day of a test.