Baby Food

Baby First Table Food

Our son is 11 months, in a few days he will be celebrating his 1st year birthday. We started giving him 2nd stage food when he was 6 months. He likes all the flavors like; mixed fruits, fruits and grains, meat and vegetables, grains and vegetables, grains and meat. I'm happy to feed him because you don't need to ask him to open his mouth just to feed him, he's the one opening his mouth ready for food. Sometime, we let him try a little pinch of table food we eat. Now, he's almost a year so, today I decided to cooked fresh vegetables. What I did is, boiled the water, add cooked white rice until smooth and soften then, add small slices of Chinese pumpkin, carrots and a little brocolli, boil again until the vegetables cooked very well so that it's easy to be mashed. I decided not to blend it so that he will use to the texture of what he is eating. When I gave it to him, at first he was curious trying to taste what he is eating and I can see on his frowning face with his wrinkled nose puzzled "what's mama giving me"? and he tried to cleaned his mouth with his hands. I thought he won't like this. I have to do something else so that he can eat. So, what crossed in my mind was a banana, he likes to eat fresh banana. I've got a banana sliced, mashed and mixed to his food. Wow! it works. He ate all in the bowl. I'm happy for my son accomplishment that day. I just wanted to give him fresh and healthy food and learn to eat more fruits, vegetables and of course home cooked food.