Started On Solids!!
Alright, we started on solid food now! For some parents, it may be "what the heck? why so late?!" For other parents, it may be "what the heck? why so early?!". For us, it was a pact between Daddy and Mommy. Mommy was aiming for 6 months to start and Daddy wanted to start ASAP ...well, really at 4 months. So 5 months was a good compromise!
We're going at it pretty much how we want to do it instead of what the books recommended. For example, Erik's first solid (aka pureed food) was Green Beans instead of the rice creal with breastmilk. In all over the world, they are much more relaxed about solid food compared to the United States where its overly analyzed. Our approach is to go with the flow. Of course, for us, we're also going to feed him our version of rice cereal which is basically pureed cooked rice in home made beef stock. The beef stock will have the iron necessary for his diet and rice...well, can't help it, we're Chinese, we eat rice! :-) hahahaha
We're going to go with one meal per day for now until he really demands more. Just because I don't want it to mess Erik's nursing schedule and really want to prolong his nursing as much as possible, my goal is to make it to one year.
So what was Erik's reaction to his solid food? HE TOTALLY LOVED IT!
These are the foods that we've tried so far from Gerber as a test run (in order of the introduction to Erik):
So far, I think our little Erik is going to be a "foodie" just like us :-) hee hee
We're going at it pretty much how we want to do it instead of what the books recommended. For example, Erik's first solid (aka pureed food) was Green Beans instead of the rice creal with breastmilk. In all over the world, they are much more relaxed about solid food compared to the United States where its overly analyzed. Our approach is to go with the flow. Of course, for us, we're also going to feed him our version of rice cereal which is basically pureed cooked rice in home made beef stock. The beef stock will have the iron necessary for his diet and rice...well, can't help it, we're Chinese, we eat rice! :-) hahahaha
We're going to go with one meal per day for now until he really demands more. Just because I don't want it to mess Erik's nursing schedule and really want to prolong his nursing as much as possible, my goal is to make it to one year.
So what was Erik's reaction to his solid food? HE TOTALLY LOVED IT!
These are the foods that we've tried so far from Gerber as a test run (in order of the introduction to Erik):
- Green Beans - Thumbs UP!
- Sweet Potatoes - Thumbs UP!
- Peaches - Thumbs DOWN!!!! - gave him gas, YUCK!
- Carrots - Thumbs UP!
- Green Peas - Inconclusive - his facial expression was "Eh? But I'll eat it"
- Mashed Avocado - Thumbs UP!
So far, I think our little Erik is going to be a "foodie" just like us :-) hee hee
posted by Tabitha | 1:28 PM
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