......the reality for Takamura's is: Mommy & Koki enjoyed the intimate feeding time so much & delayed until....the day Koki turned 6 months old.
Following the Japanese way, Mommy started with congee (liquid rice). Yes, the white pure congee. 白粥 (shirogayu). Japanese are always patient. The 1st month is only to "try out", only 1 spoon per meal to 3 spoons after a week! Koki showed that he wasn't a real Japanese - he took more than 3 spoons for his "trial". Daddy & Mommy were relieved to see Koki is an "easy-to-feed" type baby and took the ninyu process slowly.
A good start for 2 weeks but little progress was made when Koki was 6.5 - 7.5 months old. Mommy dragged Koki to Hong Kong and then Taiwan for Chinese New Year for 6 weeks. Without her "own" kitchen to make baby food and dining out all the time, Koki barely had any congee. (despite that people around always want to feed him this and that). Gomen ne...
As soon as we were back in Japan, mommy has been really committed and hard working in making a balance diet ninyushoku for Koki. So far received by Koki as:
Still all congee base:
- Pumpkin ☆☆☆☆
- Spinach ☆
- Sweet potato ☆☆☆☆
- Tomato ☆☆☆☆☆
- Cod fish ☆☆☆☆
Fruit:
- Smashed apple ☆☆☆☆☆
- Smashed strawberry ☆☆☆
- Orange ☆☆☆☆☆
- Guava ☆
- Pineapple -ve!
Tonight mommy cut an apple in stick and Koki loved it so much! He was like eating "Pockey" stick, with the crispy "kacha kacha" noise...Koki, although it's painful but it's good to have more teeth, right?
By the way, there are way too many snack for babies in Japan and some are devilry sweet!!! Koki tried the finger rice cracker in his later 7 months old. He seems to be alright with it and mommy is trying to hide all super sweet biscuit from his reach!!!
At this point, mommy is thinking...Koki as an easy-to-feed little guy with teeth, he should be able to get satisfaction from all sorts of food. But emotionally, is he really able to get away from mommy's milk? Koki is used to be called by Daddy an おっぱい星人...
