Madaelyn is now eating 3 square meals a day, and breast feeding 4-5 times a day. I started introducing real foods at 6 months. It was a struggle for me. She is a champ and eats well so far. I decided to make her babyfood.
Making her baby food has been a rewarding experience for me.
1. I know what is in the food. No preservatives or any other crap.
2. I save a lot of $. It is expensive
3. I like to cook and it super easy to make.
Currently Madaelyn has a menu of bananas {which I started giving to her whole as well}, apples {gala, yellow, green, red..a wide variety}, pears, carrots, string beans, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, and regular potatoes.
She also eats oatmeal (the baby kind), Mum-Mum rice crisps, teething cookies {not real cookies}, soft pretzel nuggets that are frozen with the salt scraped off {super great for teething}, apple slice {no skin}, and puffs {we are still working on the pincer grasp so it’s a little messy. winston is thankful for the mess}
We also recently introduced yogurt. I was worried about this because when she has to get supplemented with formula {when I am working..sadly I do not pump enough} she has to have soy because the regular formula gave her horrible gas pains and green poop/diarrhea..yuck. {sorry if that was tmi} and she has been tolerating it well so far. It is a great dinner. She is getting stonyfield organic baby yogurt. complete with a fruit and vegetable added to it. perfect balanced dinner.
