UNPUBLISHED STORY: Iman - Intro To Solid Food


Ayah was not happy with this pic... because he's not wearing shirt... hehehe

We started to introduce solid after she was 6 going 7 months. Everybody (her sitter and my mum included) was busy asking why she was not given 'any food' yet. I just told them; she had to wait until after she was 6 months, meanwhile I would like to only feed her with breast milk ! Some people just wouldn't understand why she had to wait. Well, I couldn't care less what others think, I just want to do what was the best for my baby. Except for her eczema, she was a healthy happy baby even without the solid food they were fussing about ! She rarely had fever after her scheduled injections, even when she was down with fever she was still smile and active. I started her solid with apple sauce (her favorite till now), pear, carrot, avocado and butternut squash (didn't like it). I made the sauces in batches and frozen them. The sitter thought I was one 'weird' mother, feeding Iman like that. Yeah... I was so much 'different' from other mothers whom children she was taking care of. Even Iman's bottle was different from others; I used Doctor Brown's, it was a good choice since she didn't have any colic problem while using it.

Then, I made her soft porridge; rice (brown rice sometimes), fish and vegetables, always fish - salmon, cod and other fish. Fish is always good for the developing brain. I always remember what one professor I met once before who told me about his son which he had fed fish (his wife wasn't happy about the fish !) and later turned out to be a very bright boy. I hope Iman would be too in the future. Sometimes, I cooked her vegetable pasta, fish and vegetable (green if possible).

One thing that Iman couldn't take was banana; I fed her once and it ended up with constipated Iman. Usually people took banana to ease constipation but the opposite in Iman case.