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The baby is now 6.5 months old and I have started to wean her because she has a real interest in whatever I am eating. I am still breastfeeding on tap. I started by letting her have a lick of whatever I was eating, i.e. apple or cucumber, then I let her play with chunks of the same foods, while I carefully watched her; she has 2 teeth now so she often bites out chunks and so I have to be extra vigilant. Her first real food was mashed avocado with breast milk in the afternoon and she seemed to enjoy it. We have been doing this for a week and now we are adding some fruit in the morning too. Now that I have started giving her fruit she no longer wants the avocado, I still haven’t figured out why, perhaps she isn’t hungry enough at that time so I haven’t been forcing it. I figured that avocado doesn’t really have that much taste compared to sweet fruit.
Fruits are the natural food for kids to eat. If they were in nature, they would gravitate towards fruit and live on it! Fruits have an enormous variety of vitamins and minerals. They provide carbohydrates and protein. Some even provide fat (coconuts, durian, and avocado). Feed you children a wide variety of in-season fresh organic fruits.
Raising Raw-Vegan Children eBook by Storm and Jinjee Talifero
The Garden Diet.
I have been asking around for advice and ideas about baby’s first raw food ideas. Everyone seems to be leaning towards baby led weaning, and I actually started to feel terrible for thinking that at 6.5 months it was time to start weaning.
But I had my reasons for wanting to wean at this time, firstly I felt Eleftheria was ready to take the next step, she had teeth, was trying to grab food out my hands and watched us with interest and curiosity whenever we ate anything. And a huge factor was our religion; Eleftheria was only 5 months old when we baptized her, what I didn’t know at the time was that soon after the baptism the child should receive holy communion on 3 consecutive Sunday’s. I had a real challenge convincing the priest and my motherinlaw to wait as long as we did, I really didn’t want the first food item to go into her mouth to be bread and wine hence why I decided to start weaning this soon.