I'm quoting Chubbs' feeding bib because my creative juices have been rather muted since his fall. This evening, I did something out of character. I veered from the advice that I've read online, gotten from paediatricians, friends and people in the know! I did not follow through with the 4-day wait rule to feeding semi-solids. This is very important as it helps confirm baby's reaction to the new food and to be able to pinpoint any allergies.
I went with my better Mommy judgement instead, and decided to keep the frozen French bean puree for later. As part of our crisis management program (after his fall), I played the trump card. I gave Chubbs a taste of what I'd consider as babys' all time favourite... banana! I waited a while to give him banana because it is so sweet that I'm afraid he will be put off by the blandness of vegetables after this. Anyhow, I favour the small, sweet Malaysian Pisang Mas over the uber-sized Del Monte ones. My M-I-L showed me how to scrape the banana to shun the seeds and I mixed it with breastmilk and brown rice cereal into a yummy slurry. Needless to say, Chubbs slurped up every last bit of mushy goodness.
He has this habit of licking his lips clean whenever he likes the food. Too cute!
We also bought the tray table for Chubbs' high-chair (finally)! Ikea was out of stock for the longest time. As a surprise, we bought him a new toy with a suction base to be affixed to his tray table. It can spin, rattle, has a mirror, a ball, chewy bits and more! Chubbs was well-chuffed. He played with it for over 30-minutes, and it kept him entertained throughout our home-cooked tempura dinner. Toy-buying success!
