Solid

We recently introduced solid food. All is good now but the process was fraught with blunders, gaffes, and faux pas's (We seem to have misplaced her manual... so we are flying by the seat of our pants... WE LIVE ON THE EDGE, DAGNABIT!). First, we started with the rice cereal stuff, and when we first put some in her mouth you'd have thought we poisoned her. She clearly hated it. The doctor's instructions had been "Start giving her the rice cereal. After a few days she will start holding her mouth open in anticipation of said cereal." This was clearly not happening. In fact, after a few days she realized if she closed her mouth, we couldn't put any of the offending material in her mouth. Then it bound her up tight for like four days. This involved calls to the doctor, trying to get her to drink apple juice ("You can't fool me with this "juice", give me my dang milk! (we've already trained her not to use swear words)), unceremonious, dignity offending medications, and waiting. Things are now unbinding. First we switched to the oat cereal. Then we introduced apple sauce and she stopped fighting us. Then sweet potatos, and now peas, and she actually seems to like eating solid food. The only remaining problem... she is super gassy.