Earlier this week I wrote about why I think families should avoid food marketed towards toddlers. I mentioned in that post about the article I was writing for Happy to Be At Home this week which lists a bunch of finger food/family meal suggestions for those first months when baby is transitioning from spoon food to table food. Head on over and see those suggestions.
Sadly, that was my last post as contributing writer for H2B@H. All year I've been juggling a demanding new position at work, nutrition classes, blogging and of course parenting. I really wanted to have my cake and eat it too, and what I found out is that I was just dropping too many balls trying to keep everything in the air. In addition to cutting back on guest post writing, I have to scale back my posting schedule here. While I love to publish 5 or more articles a week, I can't juggle the writing ball and keep all the others in the air.
For two other Feeding Baby posts click the links below. The link above to H2B@H would be a later chapter in the feeding baby chronicles, and I do plan to fill in the gaps with more articles on spoon feeding.
The boys and I got one day of Spring Break last week and went strawberry picking. We feasted on strawberry shortcake, fresh strawberries in cereal and strawberry smoothies. I'm aching to write about our experience and publish the recipe for whole grain shortcake (which BTW no one in my family, grandpa, hubby and nana included knew was whole grain wholesome...).
Oh, and did I mention my laptop has some adware trojan infection that essentially rendered it useless? I am working from hubby's antique mac which is older than our marriage.
It was fun to poke around in old picture files and look at messy one year old eater pictures. Little boo's hair used to stick up in the back. We called it scary hair. It didn't lay down until he was close to two. Awwww how cute is he?
Feeding Baby Getting Started
Feeding Baby An Overview of Spoonfeeding Baby
What a cute picture of the little one! I couldn't agree more about feeding children real food instead of packaged-for-kids food. Both of my girls cook with me, and they both eat "real food." My older daughter and I had sushi together the other evening!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like things are hectic for you; yes, sometimes it's hard to keep all the balls in the air! Best of luck to you:)
Mmmm...can't wait until we have fresh strawberries. It will be a while still, though. Our strawberry patch in the backyard is just starting to green up.
ReplyDeleteThis must be a bad week for computers. Mine died a couple of days ago, so I'm slowing down on my blogging and catching up on some sewing instead!
I'd even take it a step further--why spoon feed? Babies are ready to eat food when they are ready to eat food. The end.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many developmental signs that babies are ready (or aren't ready) to eat food that isn't breastmilk. Let them feed themselves.