Sitting pretty...

Suddenly Madison can sit by herself!

I suppose she must have been slowly developing the skill, but over the past week she suddenly ( as it seems to me) was able to sit without support quite well by herself. Initially she would use her hands to support herself while seated, but definitely by yesterday she was sitting and using both hands to reach for objects....

Meanwhile, we have embarked on solids and she is at present offered breakfast at about 7am, followed by lunch at about 1230 to 1300h... she has her moods, some days she takes more others very little. The one important principle I adhere to is to never force her to take more than she wants, for fear of inducing food phobias and bad habits.

After some consideration, we have settled on rice cereal with expressed milk with a combination of fruit in the morning, while for lunch she has a portion of porridge that has been previously cooked and frozen.

She was started on the classic banana for breakfast, primarily because it was the easiest to prepare. Since then she has had avocado, home cooked and pureed pear, apple for breakfast. Porridge at lunch has been rice congee with spinach and sprinkling of anchovy( ikan bilis ).

Of course she makes a merry mess of her face during her meals, but otherwise has been a good little girl in taking foods she seems to like. Apple looks like one of them!