We’ve been through most of the major fruits and vegetables with Baby B, and now we’re branching out to some of what I call the more “exotic” foods before really getting started with introducing finger foods. When I went to the grocery store the other day, I checked all of the stage 1 jarred foods to see if we’d skipped any that we’d forgotten about, but it looks like we’ve covered all of those. So now we get to have some fun with making foods that aren’t really offered in jars, which is one of the advantages to making our own food.
Baby B recently finished a round of fresh papaya, which she really seemed to enjoy, and the last two nights she enjoyed turnips (which I didn’t even try myself for the first time until a few years ago when I went to visit The Husband’s family for Thanksgiving). On the heels of that will be pumpkin (probably with nutmeg or cinnamon added), and maybe parsnips after that. So far she’s been very receptive to trying all these new foods, so we might as well let her try as many as she’ll let us give her.
It’s funny to think I was ever nervous about starting solid foods because it’s really been quite fun. Of course, now I’m nervous about feeding her finger foods because we introduce the dangerous possibility of choking. Not coincidentally, we’re finally taking our hospital’s infant CPR class this weekend, which includes instruction on choking, as well.
Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 11:21 pm |
I never got around to the infant CPR class, so kudos to you and Hubby. Although, I had my first choking incident with a cracker. I was able to fishhook it out with my finger, but it scared the bejeezus out of me. Good thing I’d read up on it.