success....

choo choo train + puffs + enthusiastic mommy + sweet potatoes and applesauce = messy camden who finally started opening his mouth for the baby foods again! he even chewed and swallowed some of it! we made it through half of each jar without gags....

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the secret...after complaining to the pediatrician about our solid woes...he smiled and said camden sounds like a kid....but he also mentioned he could be picky about texture and recommended trying puffs with him..and feeding him off of our plates when we could...after no success again this morning....i bought the puffs....i smothered cams hands in baby food ... at the advice of my mother...he sucked it right off....then we ate a puff...and it was like the lights came on...he didn't swallow the first one but he opened and chewed and he opened and chewed for every bite of baby food that followed....we ate a puff here and there and sure enough he started to swallow! i know it was just one time..and if i have learned anything from cam it is that babies are fickle little things....but tonight there is one ecstatic mommy in the world....

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i know these pictures have nothing to do with this post but i took them today and they are too cute not to share...