Solid food lesson

Nathaniel is feeling much better these days. Since he's 5 months old as of July 2, we decided to get into solid foods again.

We tried rice cereal and formula a week or two ago, and it felt pointless. The "recipe" called for one tablespoon of rice cereal to five of formula. The result was we were spooning soup into his mouth. This stuff wasn't solid in the slightest.

So we did that a couple of times and decided to make it a little thicker. We did two tablespoons of cereal to four of formula. The result was a thin gruel that Nathaniel seemed to love! Sure, it got all over his face, but he nonetheless opened his mouth wide as the food approached and kicked away happily while eating.

But later in the day we learned why you start with the soup ...
It seems his belly isn't used to solids. A few hours later he was straining and appeared to be constipated. He did not seem happy. He was fine fairly quickly, but we've learned our lesson: liquid-like solids for now.

UPDATE: The Enfamil people say we should not refrigerate the formula powder ... no explanation of why, just that we shouldn't do it. Strange.