Heinz Recall

Thanks to Abigail's mom for passing along the link to the Heinz cereal recall.

I had just actually bought Hannah a bag but luckily it is not the cereal in question. Funnily enough though, Hannah hates it. I thought she would love the mango, pineapple, pear mixture but it seems as though she likes to start her day off best with Beech Nut Good Morning Cereal.

A warm bowl of oatmeal, on a blustering morning...guess I can't blame her.

The Perfect Combination

Two nights ago we had a relatively good night.

One short wake up call at 1 am, after a 5 hour slumber.

Last night -not so good.

So I try to rack my brain to figure out why some nights are better than others.

Too few naps

The sleep sack

Bath time

A serving of cereal for dinner

I have ruled out the sleep sack on its own, but really think it comes down to a combo of all four.

So tonight, after hopefully a well rested day (she is currently sleeping on my arm), we will start off with some rice cereal at 5pm, followed by a 6pm bath, the nightly massage and snuggled into the sleep sack by 7:30pm.

Fingers crossed...otherwise I really am at a loss...and thinking that 5 hours of sleep was a real tease.

We'll master this eventually. I just hope its sooner rather than later.

Battle of the Brands

Rice cereal take two.

With a background in marketing, I wouldn never be swayed by sleek packaging or catchy taglines, right? Granted the hand drawn animals on the organic baby rice cereal box were so cute, I picked up the first box I could find without the "just add water" tagline. But Hannah is the decision maker in this case and this cereal just didn't make the solids cut.

Maybe the brown rice wasn't as yummy as a first solids treat. Maybe the timing just wasn't right.

So on a quest for a natural, breast milk-friendly cereal, I took the voice of experience (my sister's) and picked up a box of Beech Nut rice cereal while in the States.

Well, she may have grimaced at first but then, mouth-wide open and all smiles, she managed to devour an entire teaspoon serving.

If day two goes as well we'll be moving on to Barley in no time. Good thing I had the foresight to pick up a box at the same time.

So, fancy box, bright colours and organic claims just didn't do the trick. It may not have been the Pepsi Challenge but in Hannah's rice cereal challenge we found a definite winner.

Rice-A-Roni

We started rice cereal this morning.

Not because since quitting Ferber she's been up every 2 hours at night. Although I wish solids helped in that department. But because every time I bring a piece of food or a cup of water to my mouth, it is intercepted by her hand.

After doing my reading I headed to the mall to find the perfect cereal for a girl whose had nothing but breastmilk (and Pediavit) for the past 5 months. But when I started reading the packages that said "just add water" and included oil in the ingredients I knew this was not the route I wanted to take.

So we headed over to our health food store and discovered Healthy Times brown rice organic baby cereal. Fortified with all the vitamins and minerals she needs, I felt much better giving her a product that could be mixed with my milk and whose ingredient list was all natural.

So did she like it?

The expression on her face was worth a thousand words. What is this stuff?!

She definitely didn't hate it. But she did love holding the spoon and feeling it in her mouth.

We'll try again tomorrow morning and I'm sure little by little mommy and Hannah will be sitting side by side eating cereal for breakfast.