Feeding Baby Solids!

Photo Credit: Megan Malone

Finally it is time to feed your baby something other than a bottle! Starting solids is so much fun, babies have the best little reactions to how foods taste. In the photo above my son is eating zucchini that I made for him with my baby bullet . His first solids was bananas though and let me just say he preferred the sweet bananas to the healthy zucchini, but who wouldn't. My plan with his feeding is I try to give him a sweet food one day and a non-sweet food the next day to try. For example I will give him bananas for three days, then zucchini, then sweet potato, then squash, and continue on like that. I always hear about babies who have nothing but fruit first then refuse to eat their vegetables so my hope is that by alternating sweet fruits with the non-sweet veggies he will learn to eat both just fine. I guess we will see how it goes.

I make his baby food like I stated earlier with the Baby Bullet system. I personally just feel like his food is cleaner if I go out and buy one banana or whatever it is I want him to try and puree it myself. When it comes to baby food in a jar, its convent and probably a lot easier to do but I believe that the food is fresher and will be a lot cleaner if I make it myself. I like being able to see exactly what is going into my child's body. When I made his bananas, he was fed a banana and water puree like the recipe said, same goes for the zucchini he is eating the picture. Literally the only ingredients are whatever solid he is trying and water. This is just my opinion but I feel like it is probably a lot healthier for him to have that, than baby food in a jar with a shelf life that is older than he is. 

The most important thing to remember when starting solids is to offer them to your baby for three days and watch for any allergic reactions. Typically bananas are a really good food to start off with because they will be gentle on baby's sensitive tummy!