It's reality-check time! You're at least four months into your tour of parenting, and the complexities of child training are starting to multiply.

As your baby is growing physically, his mind is adapting with an increasing awareness to new sights, sounds and sensations.

He can now interact with his material universe with greater attentiveness.

Now feeding time is more than a biological response initiated by a baby's sucking reflexes.

For the five-month-old, meal times become a complex and conscious interaction between child and parent, food and drink, preference and need, likes and dislikes, must do and won't do! Watch out - big changes are coming to their world and yours!