She wants to eat me alive

Seriously Gwen, how much breast milk can one child intake?  I'm thinking she is hitting some record.  All she wants to do is nurse nurse nurse.  And she is watching everything I eat or drink.  She is chewing on all of her toys.  Shoves everything into her mouth.  And can almost sit up on her own.  Pushes herself right up out of the bouncy seat.  

So ya ya ya ya...I know what all of that means....she is probably ready to start solids.  But but but...I don't wanna!  I just don't.  I really wanted to wait on this one.  Didn't want to start til 6 months or so.  Aili I started right at 4 months...Frank fairly close also.  

EBF (exclusive breast feeding) is just soooooooo easy.  Her food source is always around.  Never runs out.  It's free.  She seems to like it.  Is taylor made just for her.  Doesn't require any utensils.  No mixing.  No measuring.  Just good old fashioned boobies.  

This sucks.

I think I spend more time nursing now than I did when she was a newborn.  She feeds ever 3 hours or so and goes for abut 15 minutes.  Decides she's full then wants up.  About 5 minutes later she realizes she isn't full.  So she goes to the other boob for 10 minutes or so.  Rinse. Repeat.  

But she is also very good at getting distracted while eating.  And in this house one is easily distracted by: a miniature Cinderella dancing on your head, a rousing rendition of the Imagination Movers theme performed by your siblings, a curious Rosa cat, a Pete the Pug sneeze....the list goes on.  If I wasn't so good at tuning things out, I'd get distracted too.  

So if I did start I really really really really don't want to do cereal.  The stuff is kinda creepy.  A friend of mine spun it out in a chemistry class and there were little black flecks of iron in it....yucky.  Nothing says nutrition like sucking on a railroad tie.  

But then where do I start?  I have this book...Child of Mine:  Feeding with Love and Good Sense by Ellen Satter   

I guess I should dig it out and re read it.  

And once I start there is no turning back.  It really is a time commitment.  Would totally change my day.  Grrrrrrr.  

Oh and I have typed half of this post with one hand because I am (as usual) NAK----nursing at keyboard.