Joe's been on solids for a couple of months now, a combination of spoon-fed and leaving it up to him to get on with it himself with chunks of food. Have to be a bit cautious due to his operation site and the throat and make sure we can get stuff past it.
He's been on textured foods a while - only had pure purée for the first couple of weeks to get use to tastes, swallowing, etc. They don't need things very smooth for long, and in fact is good to get them used to texture sooner rather than later otherwise all they know and want is smooth, mushy stuff.
Scrambled eggs (creamy, not rubbery) are massively popular with him, as is yoghurt, dried apple and mango, toast and banana. He does eat three times a day now and it does take time but it's definitely good just to let him take his time and work it out. Lots of coughing and choking at the start, I've had to fish little lumps out a couple of times but he seems entirely unaffected by any of it.
He drinks water when he eats, out of a free flowing sippy cup. It's a bit messy but he seems fine. He's dropped his 3am feed entirely and the 11pm one has gone down by half, as has the 7am one so his milk intake has probably gone down by 400ml in total.
He's had the most filthy cold, really hardly able to breathe poor chook. I blame, entirely, a mum and dad who insist on bringing their red-eyed snot-covered baby to music class; they let her run free and eat all the toys and climb over everyone else. She has been ill the last three weeks and now I know of at least 3 other babies from the class who are properly ill. Not impressed!
Off to hospital today for a developmental and surgical review. I hate going back there...
Good weeks to you all, hope they are tops.