Feeding Update Friday: Week Eight (and Six and Seven...)

Life has been crazy the past few weeks, and I've been slacking on feeding updates.  We have been hanging in and doing pretty well with feeding.  Greyson has been consistent with his volumes.  You'll notice that G eats a whole lot of yogurt.  We have found that this is his "go to" food, as he really actually likes it.  The reason we give him so much yogurt is because he takes the most volume of it.  We try to switch it up with the flavors of yogurt.  This is one of my questions for The Children's Institute is how can we start to move him to a bigger variety of foods and keep up his volumes.

You may also see a difference in the volumes that he's eating.  Please understand that we've been a bit more flexible with our mealtimes because of our schedule this week, and are also starting to allow G to pick at crunchy foods more which won't show in his volumes.  It doesn't mean that he is doing worse, he's doing very well.  We've also gotten too lax in our recording of his eating (woops! will be working to fix that...)

The most amazing development in the last few weeks happened just this Tuesday...see video below.

Foods that G has eaten the last few weeks:
vanilla yogurt
whole yogurt with honey
strawberry banana yogurt
mango yogurt
banana yogurt
chicken and dumpling soup with butter (pureed)
pureed ravioli with butter
cheese curls
chicken and rice soup with butter
bean and bacon soup with butter
Ritz crackers
white cheddar cheese curls
Life cereal

Total volumes this week:
Saturday:  6 ounces, 2 cheese curls, and nibbles of party food (hummus, crackers, M&Ms, etc)
Sunday:  9 ounces
Monday:  9 ounces and 20 mL
Tuesday:  7 ounces and 2 cheese curls
Wednesday:  8 ounces and 15 mL
Thursday:  6 ounces and nibbles of rice cakes

And now for the amazing and coolest, most awesome and wonderful development thus far in our feeding journey, all caught on tape.  Ladies and gentlemen, our son has discovered self-feeding.