First week experiences

The first week of Tisa's learning to eat has past. We have not started easy on her, we wanted to try many things, maybe too soon, but we did it that way. The result is that already after a couple of days we could find food traces in the morning nappy.

We have tried everything from cooked and raw vegetables, fruits and pasta (fusilli) with ragù alla bolognese (without salt). She took a fusilli in her mouth and sucked outt all the juicy part and then spitted out the fusilli. I tried in later occasions to give her the sauce on a piece of bread, and she eat on it for really long time. The sauce food ends up being very messy. Vegetables are for sure the easiest and less messy food. Tisa has already some favorits. Tomato is the winner, she sucks on it until it is just skin left. Overall she likes everything that has some juice in it. As for lettuce and similar vegetables she does not find it so rewarding and she fast gives it up. Zucchini, just grilled in the pan were a success. Like with tomato she sucked on it and took a lot of meat with her in the mouth.

Every time she gets a bigger piece of food in the mouth she quickly spits it out. Pear and strawberries are her favorite fruit. Bananas are too slippery and it is hard to grab them, as for this reason we do not give it to her often. We read that apples might be hard to digest for babies, so to be on the safe side we have slowed down with those. But we didn't stop. We gave her even a lemon to try, she made some funny faces but continued eating it. She loved also a raw onion, getting a bit frustrated at the beginning as she bite too hard and the rings broke. The lemon and onion caused some wider family concerns, people thought that we are crazy to give things like that to a six-month-old. But we believe that it is important to try everything to see by our self how she will react and to teach her and learn from her what is the best way to proceed.

After every meal or fruit we give her some water, and she gladly drinks it.

The mess is still kind of a problem as she always finds a way to get wet or dirty, so a change of clothes is always necessary. Cleaning and changing her after the meal makes her become fussy. We thought that it might be because she wants to eat more. From now on we will leave her to eat until she wants to. She is still kind of slow ;)