Homemade Baby Food : Sweet Potatoes

So, instead of making a second batch of applesauce using a different kind of apple, I decided to skip it and go with sweet potatoes next. I bought one medium sized sweet potato (or yam) and peeled it, cut it up, and steamed and pureed it in the Beaba Babycook. I ended up adding quite a bit of water to the puree to get it to a consistency that was smooth and not super thick. This one sweet potato (and all the water I added) made enough servings for over two weeks!

Day 1, Mommy holds it.

She likes it!

I reserved one serving of the puree to feed to L that day and froze the rest in an ice cube tray. She didn't seem to enjoy the sweet potato puree on that first day, her reaction was very similar to the applesauce (made a face, didn't want anything to do with it after the first taste). The next day I tried something a little different, it's been pretty hot lately, so I figured I'd just give her the frozen cube of the puree and see what she did with it. I thought she might like it better than eating something hot on a hot day. To my complete surprise, she really liked it! I held the cube for her and she kind of sucked on it, which melted the sweet potatoes in her mouth. She must have liked the taste because she kept on wanting to continue sucking on the cube. I held it mostly for her that first day, but in the following days she has been attempting to hold and pick up the cube herself! I'm really excited because to me that seems like a great transition into baby-led weaning! She's had the frozen sweet potatoes every day for the past five days or so and is still seeming to enjoy them!

Day 5, getting real good at holding it herself!

*I've been taking videos of her eating and I hope to upload them to youtube to document our BLW journey, I'll post them when they're up!*