On Nathanial and Food

Okay, so we started Nathanial on a little bit of rice cereal since he was 3.5 months old and he has loved food ever since. Today, we visited dear friends and Nathanial's buddy who was turning 1. Said one year old is pretty well weaned off of baby food, transitioning to whole milk and is starting to get over the whole bottle thing. I watched the kid shovel in FISTFULS of cut up cheese pizza, and of course, filled up on cake!

So, of course, we gave Nathanial a taste of things. He got a couple of bites of pizza, a sweet gherkin cut up, a couple of tastes of an apple and some apple and oat baby food.

I worry frequently if I'm doing the right thing by Nathanial's eating. Here is what he eats:

• Bottle at wake-up
• Breakfast
• Bottle
• Lunch
• Bottle
• Dinner
• Bottle

So, there is essentially 4 bottles and breakfast lunch and dinner in his day. Some days he also has a snack of either puffs and juice or an apple in one of the mesh pacifiers.

There is NO doubt that he is eating enough...weight gain is not and has never been a problem for him. But with his chronic constipation issues, I wonder if there's something I could be doing just a bit better. You know? I just want him to have a good start in life and for him to be able make good choices in life. I'm not so sure whatching Mommy down a pice of pizza followed by cake was such a good example.

We'll try again tomorrow...