Ele and Rice Cereal

For the past week we have ventured into feeding Ele solids. She has done amazingly well. She only pushes the food back out if the spoonful was too big and she loves eating from a spoon. Because she is premature she will naturally have a harder time processing solids and since normal babies get backed up as well, our pediatrician has had us mix either prunes or pears with her cereal to help her move it through. She has loved both though she didn't quite know what to think of the prunes the first time. Anyway she kept getting her hands in the way after the first two spoonfuls and after realizing that is was because she wanted more control I gave her that control. Here is a video of Ele feeding herself. I'm only lightly holding on to the spoon to avoid her dropping it in her lap and to get more cereal on it when necessary, but she is bringing it to her mouth all by herself. What a talented girl we have.