On to day 5 of solids and today we gave cabbage a go. I hadn’t steamed cabbage before but will definitely do this again in future as it was so quick! I managed to get this one to a really good consistency that I was happy with, although I did strain it through a sieve just to make sure that there were no stringy fibrous pieces left in it so it was very smooth (I also did this for yesterday’s green beans too).

As with yesterday, Clara wasn’t particularly fussed about the idea of holding her own spoon today but on the whole was in a much better mood in general. Cabbage has definitely been the favourite so far! She kept opening her mouth and trying to bring her face to the bowl so we ended up feeding her from the spoon ourselves and she really enjoyed this. Not too sure why she didn’t want to feed herself as she had done such a good job of it for the first couple of days, but nevertheless she was definitely keen to eat so I’m not going to get too hung up on this – I’m sure she will take the spoon back off us when she is ready to give it another go.

On the plus side, she was pretty eager to hold her own Babycup today, although she is still struggling to grasp the concept of tilting it in order to get the water out, and she absolutely LOVES dropping a cup full of water all over herself… she is definitely showing signs of improvement with this though so I reckon it will all start to click into place fairly soon.