Mommy's Diary 23 - Solid Food

Week 23 of motherhood! Solid food is the topic of the day 🙂 We started feeding Kiko some solids when she turned 4 months old. I think we are on the early side, but we decided that she is ready for solids because she showed some signs of wanting more sustenance. She drooled, developed a strong neck and was able to sit up with some support etc. And my fatness Kiko was drinking a LOT of milk (1400ml some days) and milk itself didn’t seem to quite satisfy her appetite. Her first solid food meal was rice portage. Slowly we moved to different pureed vegetables. Although I read an article that the order given to children does not matter and the baby won’t develop taste preferences, I decided to give her vegis first and move on to sweeter food, like apples and oranges, later. I’ve fed her pureed egg plant, avocado, pumpkin, potato and carrots so far. For the first month, she would spit out the food, and not really eat much, but one day she just started to take in the food much better. A baby’s overnight development is quite amazing!

To make puree food, Andy and I either boil the vegetables or microwave them. We then mash it with this tiny mashing bowl and stick we bought here. I think this mashing bowl is traditionally used in Japan for grinding sesame seeds, but we don’t need much ground sesame so we use it for pureeing vegetables. Once we make the pureed food, we divide it into small Tupperware boxes and save them in the fridge 🙂

Kiko also started using this new bottle, pictured above. This bottle type is in between a regular baby bottle nipple and a sippy cup. She prefers this cup a lot more because more milk is released with this bottle than with the regular nipple. It used to take her about 20 minutes to finish one bottle of 200cc milk, but now it takes about 5 minutes! She is such a vigorous eater!

Also pictured above is a silicon bib which was gifted from my friend. It’s great because it is soft, washable, and don’t stain like regular cloth bibs. The only problem is that Kiko likes to eat the bib…:p