When it comes to feeding my family healthy meals daily, I feel more than a little like Sisyphus – I keep cooking, but mealtimes just keeping coming. It feels like I’ve just cleaned the dishes from the last meal when one or both of the kids says, “I’m hungry!” When my husband and I felt […]
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Little Oats’ eating habits are a go-to topic of conversation among family and friends. At almost two, she eats a LOT, and is very vocal about her likes and dislikes. But she hasn’t always been this way, and I’m certain she won’t always be this way. I’ve pulled together a little Q&A about our feeding […]
When Little Oats was four months old, the doctor suggested starting her on rice cereal. She was a little peanut in the weight department, and he thought it might help her sleep through the night (haven’t we all heard a variation on this?). So, just before Christmas, we started spoon-feeding her a brown-rice cereal… and […]
My first son adored purees. Within a few days of introducing them, he was gobbling down entire containers of fruits and veggies and whining for more. Frankly, I liked spoon-feeding. It was fairly easy to limit the mess, I knew my kiddo was getting a nutritious introduction to solids, and purees made feeding on the […]
The first food I plopped in front of Winter was an avocado when she was one day shy of 6 months, but it was so very slippery, there was no hope. Then I realized she was “good” at picking up her blankets and clothes. The food that mimicked that the most was some wavy lettuce, […]
My husband and I couldn’t reach a mutually agreed upon common ground in solids because I wanted to do no purees; I thought it would work against her wanting to pick up food for herself when she saw how much easier the spoon was. He, on the other hand, was very concerned about the possibility […]
*A quick clarification. Little Lion is 11 months old and approaching his first birthday. We began baby led weaning at 6 months old. This post is about the strategies we have tried within the last few weeks to allow our bottle-fed baby to begin gradually weaning on his own terms, much as a breast fed baby would naturally. […]
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