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Learning to eat is a messy business November 24, 2009

Filed under: development stages,Parenting,Raising a Child — rakster @ 5:37 pm
Tags: baby eating, feeding baby, food, messy eating

Hi Poogie,

head to foot. That is how covered you were in banana and yoghurt mixture yesterday. You like to try to feed yourself with the spoon. I let you. Most goes everywhere.

baby eating – a messy business

You had a bath afterwards.

But not before you’d got it in your nose, hair, eyes.

the spread of food. But you ate a lot

Yes, that’s right. The eyes. That made you cry a bit. And note to myself: banana yoghurt is almost like glue and difficult to remove from eyes and eyelashes. Especially when you have a squirmy baby…

in the eyes with the food

love you
mum

p.s. note the fat rolls in the photos. above the nappy. nice one. “baby bacon” according to your dad.

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Your first food: Avocado November 1, 2009

Filed under: baby stuff,baby's feelings,development stages,Parenting,Raising a Child — rakster @ 8:27 pm
Tags: baby eating, baby food, feeding baby, first food

Hello Poogie,

Well, look out whomever gets the next nappy ’cause you had your first non-breastmilk meal ever today! Your dad did it on the sly, you just shared some of our lunch with us. Your dad had made a nice platter of things to snack on for lunch:

the first supper – our lunch platter …

and decided that your first food would be avocado from our lunch platter. So a bit of avocado mashed up on his finger served as your first taste of non-breastmilk food. And you were stunned. You turned your head up and looked up at him with your mouth open for a good two minutes or more. As if to say,

“what are you doing to me? It’s not bad, I don’t think. I’m just very confused. Not at all sure what to do. I’ll just stare at you, maybe you’ll give me a clue?”.

Your dad made munching or eating noises and movements with his mouth, and eventually, you tried to close your mouth and follow suit.

avocado eating from dad’s finger

And after the first bit, which stayed in your mouth for quite some time, you started to swallow. And seemed to enjoy it. You then actually started seeking-out avocado-laden fingers and pulling them into your mouth.

searching for the avocado with your mouth

I don’t know how much you actually ate, but you definitely swallowed some, and looked very contented afterwards. And were very tired. So then you had a big sleep.