Introducing Solids

Introducing solids in one of the greatest milestones !!! As a part of the Indian tradition, there is a ritual that marks an infant's first intake of food other than milk and is called "Annaprashan"( eating food ). It is usually done at 6 months of age. As a part of the tradition we offered "kheer" ( rice pudding) to her. The sweet taste of kheer appealed to her taste buds :)
Today we started rice cereals for her. She seems to be liking the taste as she was asking for more and more..... :) Here's Miss Messy after her meal this morning

Baby's first foods are usually rice cereals here in the United States, although back home in India we generally give daal or rice water ( "daal ka paani" or "chawal ka paani" ). Anvesha enjoyed her meal thoroughly. We gave her Gerber rice cereals. Iam too excited for her and have done a whole lot of research already for what foods to introduce and when. Here's a website that has a whole lot of information on baby foods that I referred to http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/. We do get ready- to- eat baby foods in the market but I want to stick to homemade variety since they are fresh and economical too.