Nora eats EVERYTHING

One two skip a few..

So the little madam is getting bigger and bigger like the little caterpillar that ate it's way through..


 one apple

 two..

Ok.. so she ate an apple.. but you must understand my frustration as I had been chopping her fruit for weeks and she was not so interested, this girl want to have her apple and eat it whole. I discovered her here.. with her find as she is getting bigger, she is exploring and well.. nothing is safe that is not above 3ft.

Broccoyumi

Broccoli gets such a bad rep because so many people have experienced some badly cooked stinky mushed broccoli.. But I LOVE broccoli and think its is really tasty when it is just cooked (good idea to steam it) and NO MORE. Naturally I want my lill one to enjoy eating her greens without a fight! So I am super careful to cook her broccoli to perfection.. bright and green, firm but just soft enough to gum.. tasty fresh.. it is also a great little finger food as they can grip the stem and easy gum off the tiny little green buds.

Did she like it.. ?

 She LOVED it!
broccoli is a big winner in our books.

Look out for our fabulous GIVEAWAY coming soon!

Finger food

We have been offering Nora finger foods as snacks or along side her meals

Lunch for two

So Sometimes I want to make Nora something nice and fresh and and I make for myself at the same time. Only this one it seemed I enjoyed more than her.. not sure why she wasn't liking it because she has liked all the same things before in different mixes! I need to get more adventurous with veggies.. any suggestions people?

Pancakes!

We had our first real meal together! Pancakes for breakfast!

I just made them without sugar as we have sweet things on them anyway.. Nora had hers mashed with fruit puree. It was fun the little miss (tried) feeding herself.

Some of it actually went in!

Good Mush

I had a baby mush cook-up last week to add to the fruit I already have in the freezer.

I made a batch of sweet potato with carrots and broccoli plus a batch of Broccoli and pears with peas and I blended a load of what I was having for dinner that night too- Chicken, parsnips and carrots and apple. Nora likes them except for the one with Chicken.. I'm thinking of adding some prunes to the mix any suggestions are welcome, I made quite a big batch and don't want to lose it.

baby rice

Nora's second feeding of solids (plain rice) she wanted to feed herself!

I tried and wanted to hold out with feeding Nora solids until she was 6 months but it wasn't happening... at around Noras 5 month Birthday I was SORE from feeding every 2.5 hours and TIRED from her not sleeping through the night anymore.. one night in the wee early hours I had enough and cooked her up some ground rice with her usual milk and a little bit of butter.. she wolved it down and was sound asleep within 5min of finishing her first 'real food'. Our Health visitor had already told us when Nony was 4 months that she was ready for solids so from there we went for it.. just rice and after 5 days added some home made pear puree.. then every 4 or 5 days we tried a new mix with prune then banana then apple.

I've heard some people say that they can't be bothered making those little meals just to have their child take two tastes and not eat it. I was surprised at how well she ate and she continues to like just about everything too.. because she is used to sweet mummys milk I began her with fruits and then mixed apple with carrot and tried sweet potatoe with carrot, peas with pear etc and she eats it all. I expected her to just have little 'tastes' of food when we began but she had other ideas!

Milk precious milk.

Nora's first food was milk.

My best attempts at giving her pure mummy milk were almost shattered but we made it about 97% mummy milk. For six weeks we fed with just one side! With the help of a hospital grade breast pump, the support of a great health care visitor, a patient husband who was thankfully out of work at the time- I could not have done it without him being there!, a dermatologist, la leche leaugue advisiors, and a father in law saving the day when we were supplied with a breast pump that didn't work.. to name just a few! I had no idea that I (and my husband!) would feel so passionately about breast feeding.. or that it would be SUCH an entire uphill struggle for months. After 4 long painful months with severely wounded taps an abscess and an infection then thrush at treating the infection... feeding on one side, feeding on no sides (pumping out) we finally made it to feeding 'normally' I might even breast feed her for the next 2 years in celebration of what we've gotten through.

Any mum who has handed her hungry frustrated crying baby to another saying 'take her away right now' and one minute later crying 'bring her back!' knows what I am talking about.

So maybe this has part to play with why I am so interested in feeding Nora the best, the healthiest, and yes tasty good foods.

Welcome on our journey!
Please feel free to share your feeding experiences and recipes with us too.

Nora's mummy