A couple of weeks ago I started to widen the spectra of tastes! After 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding my parents decided it was time that I tried something new. Don't misunderstand me -it's not because I don't like the milk or that the production of this fluid of life has started to go down. My parents simply thought that it would be nice to try something new, it would get me used to the spoon at the time they start to introduce solid food and it will give me some extra vitamins and minerals -which cannot but do me good. Besides, it was suggested by my doctor! So now, after the breastfeeding sessions my mum puts me in my chair and gives me a kind of dessert ! By now I'm familiar with the tastes of apple, pear and banana. The first time I tasted the apple and the pear I wasn't that thrilled about it, they tasted a bit -well, what can I say -different! My mum tried to add a bit of her own milk to them, but it wasn't quite the same. Still, after a couple of days I started to eat them with great pleasure. The banana on the other hand was love at first sight. My mum finds me a bit funny while I eat, for I chat all the way through the feeding-mmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
something like this is what I say and my mum likes to interpret it as "yummie yummie" an interpretation that wouldn't be so far from the truth.
The introduction of fruit to my diet has had dramatic effects on the contents of my nappies -which after my sleeping pattern is the second most interesting subject to my mum. Can you imagine! In the last 4 months my mum has actually aquired a technical vocabulary of nappy-content that is so rich that she could give a University-lecture about it. The fluidity, the colour, the frequency and the abundancy, all is a subject of her daily examination (which she then dutifully reports to my dad when he comes home from work -much to his despere). And so it was that after the first time I had eaten banana my mum was extremely startled when she changed my nappy. She took the nappy and examined it closely (sincerely I thought she was about to eat the content, as she kept it so close to her face). Then she let out a small shriek and ran to show it to my father.
-He's got worms. WORMS...maybe that's why he's not sleeping so well (remember she was on an eternal search for the root of that problem). LOOK!
My dad was actually brushing his teeth at that moment and from his face it was clear that he was pretty shocked as well -although I suspect that he was more shocked by the fact my mum thought that he would be intersted in such a close nappy-inspection, than actually by it's contents!
After a short, but intensive conference, my parents concluded that what they saw in the nappy wasn't actually worms, but the fibers of the banana! What a relief. Although my mum was just slightly disappointed not to have found the reason for my sleep-problems!! A couple of days later the contents of my nappy became again the subject of close inspection. I had eaten apple the day before, and when my mum changed my nappy she could (sniffing in the air -hm, as one does) actually smell the apple! My mum wouldn't have been more surprised if there had been a 500 dollar bill in the nappy! Then she argued that, well, when he eats only milk, the nappy-contents actually have a sweet milky smell (it IS frightening how familiar she is with all aspects of these things), so why would it be surprising if it smells of apple after eating one? The thought actually cheered her up -apple smelling shit, maybe there was even market for it! Then she continued cleaning me (yes, for she had ignored her duties while doing her little research -leaving me dirty and a helpless witness to the scene). It was then that she realized. EUREKA! It was the wipes that she used to clean me that smelled of apple. The nappy-content had just its, well, usual nappy-content's smell (don't force me to analyse it closer!). In a couple of weeks my parents will start to introduce solid food to my diet, and who knows which surprises it will offer at the time of nappy-change to my curious mum!
P.S.
I've started sleeping 10-11 hours without interruption during the night, and I've learnt to fall asleep by myself, but I'll write more about that in my next posting
