rice cereal

We finally broke down and decided to try rice cereal. It's weird- you kind of hear mixed things. Like, our pediatrician told us to hold off on introducing any solids until MJ is 6 months old, based on the idea that they can get food allergies earlier. Yet other people (and books) seem to assume rice cereal is like a standard thing for 4-month-old babies.
In any case, with the semi- OK from our pediatrician, and the hope(!) that it would help MJ sleep longer at night, we gave it the ol' college try.


These pics were taken on day 2, before we realized wearing a bib was key. :)
And after the first couple of tries, she seemed to really like it! And I don't know if it's just our imagination, but she is definitely sleeping in longer stretches now at night. She can pretty much go from 10pm - 8/9am with only one wake-up, usually around 2 or 3. Of course, this hasn't happened *every* night but we've started to notice a trend! Fingers crossed!