Food Time!

Hi Baby,

Now that you're six months old already it's time to introduce you to food other than breast milk. Mommy read that the best first food to give you was avocado. As you passed your sixth month mark I excitedly, and at the same time not really wanting to because mommy don't want you to grow up so fast, sliced a small piece of avocado and mashed it up, and fed you with a teaspoon. You took to it like a duck to water. In total over the past week you pretty much only had almost half an avocado, mommy just finished the other half on toast with slices of tomatoes, yummy. Also we've been giving you water to drink out of a cup.

Well, with the introduction to food into your diet now you also have stopped pooping for a week. You have yet to give a good pooping and I decided to cut down on your meal frequency (considering you only have it once or twice a day...)

But something wasn't right. Experience wise. Had to hold your hands down so you won't take the spoon and get avocado everywhere.

While mommy happen to be browsing another mommy's blog who took pictures of her baby in dreamland, I read that she was introduced to this concept of 'baby led weaning'. Intriguing...

So mommy googled it up and all these links came up, feels like the time when mommy was researching cloth diapers, opened up a few and read up what is all this baby led weaning. I can tell you I felt so pleased with the concept.

The idea is to let baby control what she chooses to put in her mouth, the emphasis is more on play and exploration than actual eating.

Let's see how that all work out for us...

Love,

Mommy