Making Baby Food

Most of you know that I make the majority of baby food for my babies. And if you didn't, well, I make most of the baby food for my babies. I admit that its easier and quicker to buy already-made baby food but I want to prepose that making baby food doesn't not require that much skill or time.

Here are a few ways to ease the work of making baby food.

1. Move to a third-world country and hire a house helper who will make all the baby food for you. No? Ok next...

2. Make sure your baby has reflux and all kinds of intolerances/allergies so that introducing new foods is a long and drawn out process. You'll won't have to make as many different foods during the baby food phase thus saving you time.

3. Delay starting solids until at least 6 months. There is some research out there somewhere that proves that there is no nutritional reason to start solids before 6 months old (unless advised by your ped for reflux, weight issues, etc). Starting early just prolongs the baby food phase. Breastfed babies do need extra iron in their diets starting around 6 months so its a good idea to introduced an iron-fortified baby cereal at that time (which of course is not homemade because I don't know how to fotify something with iron).

4. Get your sister to have a baby within a few weeks of you. Then every time one of you makes baby food, make a double batch and share with your sister. Twice the food for (almost) the same amount of work.

I hope those have helped you simplify the process of making your own baby food!

Wiley and Qwenn

Brenna had her babies this morning! There aren't many people I will drive 3 hours round trip to be with on the day they deliver their babies but Brenna is one of them. You can read all about the delivery and updates on their blog.

Riley (or Wiley as Kiran calls her)

I got to go up in the NICU and see these precious babies that have been so prayed for. Years of prayer coming to fruition today. I teared up at the magnitude of today for Geoff and Bren- a day they didn't know if they would ever experience.

Quinn (or Qwenn)

The babies look wonderful. They look perfect- just little miniature babies!

Brenna was amazing as usual. She's quite the overachiever. God has specially made her to mommy twins and its fun to see her in that role!