the first 6 months and Gabe has been growing quite
sucessfully from drinking that alone, we waited until
24 weeks to give him any sort of food.
He is DEFINITELY ready, always watching us eat
and wanting to put food in his mouth.
We want him to have a healthy diet and not love junk
food like we do :) We realize that as he gets older he will
want to eat a cookie or a french fry, but for quite some time
only healthy things will enter his little body!
If he can only fit a certain amount of food, we want it to be
nutritious!
Well we started with butternut squash. I made it and mixed
in a little breastmilk so there was something familiar. It gave
him the chills. We figured it was mean of me to start him with
butternut squash when he would have clearly enjoyed a yummy
banana more. See below, that is not the case, haha!
We tend to think that he's just unsure of all food
in general. I read somewhere that babies have to try
each food 10-12 times before they develop a like or dislike.
Part of what we'll feed him is fresh food in a puree form (we
also have some jarred food which will also work just as well
when I don't have all this spare time to make his food!).
We are also going to incorporate some Baby Led Weaning.
This is where you give the food to the baby and they
explore/eat on their own. It was fun to watch but just like
the butternut squash, the bananas gave him the chills!
