well, today we had a first - solid food. Alex, that is. The rest of us have been on solids for a while! Anyway, he's a little young for it, technically (3.5 months rather than 4) but he's a very hungry baby in the daytime and has recently taken to chewing on his fist, so I reckoned it was time to at least try. And though he's not entirely sure what to do with the food (we had some pear puree today), neither does he spit it back out, scream and make faces, so I think we're on the right track. I just want him to keep sleeping through the night most nights - it's a hard thing to give up, once they've started to give your nights back!