From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Avocado for baby? Yes please.

June 28, 2010

photo credit: Simon Goldenberg Avocado was a huge hit in our house yesterday. Both my husband and I love avocados and so I decided to offer some, sliced up, to our boy as a finger food. Given the avocado was lovely and ripe, it was easy for my boy to pick up and mash between [...]

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What’s on the menu? Butternut squash!

June 27, 2010

photo credit: VancityAllie I persisted with rice cereal for 5 days and with minimal interest from my boy, I decided to give Baby Led Weaning a go and offer the boy some butternut squash instead. What a difference that made! He had complete control. He could pick up, play with, squash, taste and munch on [...]

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Happy 6 months!

June 18, 2010

My boy is 6 months old today. I’m happy and I’m sad at the same time. I’m happy because he is such a happy, healthy, active little boy who lights up our lives and is an endless source of pleasure. I’m sad because my baby is growing up so quickly. 6 months is a huge [...]

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The Healthy Feeding Relationship

June 2, 2010

photo credit: mightyb What we feed our babies is almost as important as how we feed our babies. The World Health Organisation encourages parents to practice responsive feeding when feeding their infants, a natural extension of responsive parenting. In the context of the feeding relationship, responsive parenting involves: recognizing and respecting the child’s developmental abilities in regards [...]

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