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CONTENTS
CHAPTER SIX: 15 Months and Beyond
CHAPTER EIGHT: Feeding the Whole Family
Hello again!
So here we are. Over the past six or so months, you and your baby have finally mastered the milk feed, and whether you’ve gone for breast or formula, all your hard work is plain to see in your baby’s growing weight on the scales. Whether you’ve found the whole experience a doddle or a struggle, you’ve done it, and the results are squidgeable! But in this ever-evolving world of baby, it’s time for change. It’s time for the next exciting step: to introduce your little bundle to the colourful, flavourful and wonderful world of food – something that may well be met with mixed emotions!
You might fall into the camp of mothers who have exclusively breastfed since day one and loved every nursing moment, hence the thought of having to give up some of these feeds to foreign food matter is a bit threatening. You might be one of those mothers who loves the ease of milk (whether breast or bottle) and so the thought of having to add the preparation of food to your already busy routine is simply horrifying. Or you might be the sort of mum who’s hated the whole milk-only phase and can’t wait to start cramming the freezer with ice cubes of liquidized carrot. Whichever category you fall into, the simple truth is that the time has come and you have to embrace the solid, for the good of your baby and her development.
It’s true that the thought of weaning can make even the most self-assured of mothers feel daunted. Not least because, as usual, there are decisions to be made. Do you go down the traditional route of spoon-feeding
