(Baby Leia) First solid foods!

Now that Leia is more than 6 months old, I've been researching on what to feed her. Sources tell me that milk is no longer sufficient and she needs to take solids to get iron and other nutrients! Starting solids is also important as it teaches baby how to munch and swallow food so that she knows how to eat when she grows up. 

Baby cereal:

So far, I've discovered that it's good to start Leia with single grain cereal like rice cereal since it contains iron and is also easy to digest. Therefore, we've been giving her Nestle's rice cereal once every morning, mixed with friso stage 2 formula milk. Leia really liked it at first but last week, she started rejecting it and fussed when we fed her. So I decided to try Healthy times barley cereal to see if she likes it better. Anyways, unlike rice cereal, barley cereal doesn't cause constipation so that's good! 

Vegetables:

Sweet potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, peas and avocados are good for little ones. Butternut squash is supposed to be good too but I really have no idea where to get it in Singapore! 

We've started her with sweet potatoes only and she's okay with it. Sometimes she seems to really like it and other times, no. So we're a little confused lol. We're still giving it to her anyway! 

We bought Philips steamer and blender to prepare her purée sweet potato. So far, I'm really loving it! It's really really convenient. I just bought avocados so that we can let her try. I'm excited cause I think avocados are super yummy! And they're filled with good fat hehe. Hope she likes it!