I made my first batch of homemade baby food today. Organic pears. I am so happy! I have been incredibly excited about making baby food for the longest time. I used the Beaba steamer/processor that Marmie gave us for Christmas. I am planning on making as much food as I can--hopefully everything except carrots (nitrates) and squash (don't have a good enough knife to cut through them). Anyway, I'm planning on doing frozen peas next.Feeding Noah is my favorite activity. He loves everything, except he won't eat the cereals. I've tried mixing them with other things to mask the taste, but he is very particular. He will act as if I poisoned his bananas or carrots if I put even the tiniest amount of rice cereal into it and will refuse to eat it. I wish he would, though, so we could stop giving him the iron supplement. I tasted the iron supplement we have to give him and it tastes horrible! I gagged and need to chase it with juice. No wonder he hates it. I think that pretty soon I can introduce meat and that will help.
yeah on the baby food! you might be able to bake a whole squash and then cut when it's softer. kids are so smart- they somehow know when you're sneaking in cereal! maybe if it's mixed with yogurt? speaking of yogurt, i don't remember the official age babies can try it, but we might have introduced it around 7 mos. also, not sure if the dairy would upset noah. i somehow recall a nurse who led a new-parents group in vermont saying that yogurt somehow didn't upset like milk would. maybe i'm dreaming that... love the pics of noah. can't wait to meet the boy!
ReplyDeleteDr. Karla! Congrats! Grant just sent me the link to your blog. I will be a faithful follower now!
ReplyDeleteA few things... Yay on the baby food. I made most of Benny's and loved doing it. It was surprisingly easy and I think it looks and tastes better. I got a lot of advice from the book Super Baby Food.
I had to laugh (sorry!) about your posts on swaddling! We went through the same process. I was sure that Benny would never sleep again once we took away the swaddle. Turns out, that's when he started sleeping through the night. He did just what Noah did, promptly rolled over on his tummy. He's been a tummy sleeper ever since (had I known, I would have broken the "back only" rule long before).
Anyway, I'm so happy to be able to follow your adventures. Good luck with the job search. If you guys do end up in the San Fran area, we might see you in the fall. We're planning a mommy and daddy getaway and San Fran is on the short list!