Mylostone – Solids

An important Mylostone to write about today! My son Mylo had his first taste of solids just before his 5 month birthday. We intended to start with rice cereal but one morning while he was sitting in his Inglesina booster seat, (another great find for apartment dwellers by the way), watching us eat breakfast, he began to foam at the mouth.

So I took a banana out of the bowl, cut off a small piece and proceeded to mash it up. Somehow, I don’t know how, he knew it was for him. He stared at the bowl intently and held on to the arms of the seat for dear life, as if the anticipation alone would knock him out of it! The only other living thing I’ve seen react to food preparation that way is our dog.

Yummy yummy to my tummy!

I know it’s not recommended to start with the sweet stuff, but it seemed fitting, as I grew up in Nigeria on mashed banana myself. We do a tiny chunk of banana in the morning now and tiny bit of rice cereal in the evening. And he absolutely digs it!