Taste the Rainbow
So, my girl is 6 months old now and has been eating solid foods for a while. I am been very remiss in posting new photos but I have a very good excuse (more on that later). I promise to get some new photos up by tomorrow afternoon.
Anyway, Alia is an eater! We started with avocado as her first food. Then moved on to pear and banana. Homemade rice cereal followed with sweet potato, nectarine and peaches not far behind. She always make a really funny face when she gets a mouthful of some new texture for the first time but from then on it's smooth sailing....just as long as the spoonfuls keep coming in rapid succession!!!
Some of you may be shocked that we began with avocado as opposed to the commonly suggested iron fortified rice cereal...we do have a reason! We believe strongly in the ideas and philosophy purported in Ruth Yaron's book Super Baby Food. It is a simple and easy to understand explanation of why she used the foods she used for her own kids. Her own "1st Foods" schedule and why the commonly suggested first foods aren't necessarily the best for your baby.
In a nutshell, the easiest food to digest is a toss up between avocado, banana and pear. Rice IS the easiest grain to digest but why start with a grain when these others are easier on baby's digestive system. We chose avocado first because it is so high in the "good fats" that a baby needs for developing brain cells. The others followed naturally.
Also, we make our own rice cereal by making rice into powder in our blender and then cooking it with water on the stove like you would for Cream of Wheat breakfast cereal. We prefer to make our own cereals because store cereals so often have unnecessary ingredients we don't want Alia to have.
For us, living and eating naturally is a lifestyle. This is most important for Alia who since conception has never had any preservatives in her system and only rare and small amounts of sugar (when mom had a treat) . Her body systems are running as close to how God created them to work and we feel it is our job to keep it that way.
Alia is schooching all over around my feet while I sit here typing. She is a mover...maybe that's why she eats so much!
Anyway, Alia is an eater! We started with avocado as her first food. Then moved on to pear and banana. Homemade rice cereal followed with sweet potato, nectarine and peaches not far behind. She always make a really funny face when she gets a mouthful of some new texture for the first time but from then on it's smooth sailing....just as long as the spoonfuls keep coming in rapid succession!!!
Some of you may be shocked that we began with avocado as opposed to the commonly suggested iron fortified rice cereal...we do have a reason! We believe strongly in the ideas and philosophy purported in Ruth Yaron's book Super Baby Food. It is a simple and easy to understand explanation of why she used the foods she used for her own kids. Her own "1st Foods" schedule and why the commonly suggested first foods aren't necessarily the best for your baby.
In a nutshell, the easiest food to digest is a toss up between avocado, banana and pear. Rice IS the easiest grain to digest but why start with a grain when these others are easier on baby's digestive system. We chose avocado first because it is so high in the "good fats" that a baby needs for developing brain cells. The others followed naturally.
Also, we make our own rice cereal by making rice into powder in our blender and then cooking it with water on the stove like you would for Cream of Wheat breakfast cereal. We prefer to make our own cereals because store cereals so often have unnecessary ingredients we don't want Alia to have.
For us, living and eating naturally is a lifestyle. This is most important for Alia who since conception has never had any preservatives in her system and only rare and small amounts of sugar (when mom had a treat) . Her body systems are running as close to how God created them to work and we feel it is our job to keep it that way.
Alia is schooching all over around my feet while I sit here typing. She is a mover...maybe that's why she eats so much!
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