Baby Of The Month - Previous Winners

March 2009

At Homemade Baby Food Recipes, we enjoy hearing about how your babies are getting on with solid foods - and we love to receive photographs of them, too!

In our Baby of the Month Competition, we invite you to send in a special photograph of your little one - and we publish our favourites on the site!

The current winners - and the entry form for sending in YOUR baby's photographs - are on our Baby of the Month page - and below you can see the winners from March 2009's competition!

And here's March's Baby of the Month -
Happy Little Marlee, 9 Months, from Agoura Hills, CA, USA

Marlee's Mum, Suzanne, told us...

This is Marlee is all dressed for Valentine's day!

She didn't take to solids well at all and we tried to force her for a month. This stubborn little one wanted nothing to do with the spoon or solids. When she learned to protest keeping her mouth tightly sealed, we knew she was winning the battle.

Then we tried yogurt! And she loved it. I was able to hide rice cereal and oatmeal in it so she would get her grains and iron. And now she isn't as cautious about the spoon. She'll eat the applesauce, carrots, peas and squash that I make her.

I'm going to try the avocado recipes on this site next! I'm looking for a recipe to make my own cereal puffs.

Thank you for sending in Marlee's photograph, Suzanne - and thanks for sharing your yogurt trick. It's wonderful that Marlee's learning to enjoy her solids!

And thank you, too, to everyone else who entered last month!

Here are some more of our favourite pictures sent in during February, along with a few words from Mum...

Analise, 8 months - from Geneva, Switzerland

Analise loves plain, unsweetened yogurt!

After reading about how to make my own on your website I tried it out and haven't turned back. It's so much more economical and it's so easy.

I love all of the ideas I get here - I'm always inspired to try new things.

Cash, 4 months - from Kissimmee, Florida, USA

Cash, a preemie born at 35 weeks weighing only 5 pounds 11 ounces, is a very good eater-- we had no problems introducing solid foods to him!

He'll eat anything you give him but his ultimate favorite is fresh pureed banana. His other favorites are roasted butternut squash, pears and lentils.

He now weighs a healthy 17 pounds at only 4 months old!

This is a picture of him in his new activity center having lot's of fun!

Kaija, 11 months

Kaija loves eating a variety of foods (even though it wasn't like that a couple months ago!).

Some of her favourites now are: pasta, toast, oranges, and broccoli!

My favourite is when she goes to put something in her mouth, and it lands under her chin (on her bib), but she still makes the chewing motion as if it made it in her mouth!!

Kyler - 5 months, from Cassville, MO, USA

Kyler was born at 7 months with pulmonary and gastroenterological problems.

He began eating foods rather early when formula didn't stay down.

He quickly developed a taste for fresh sweet potatoes, sweet peas and pears, but still refuses to eat green beans or peaches.

Matthew, 7 months - from Blue Springs, Missouri, USA

Matthew loves solid foods! Opposite of most babies, he loves his veggies more than fruits! His favorites are sweet potatoes and carrots! He also likes parsnips!

When Matthew first started solids, he would suck his thumb between each bite! Now he's too excited for that, leaning forward to meet the spoon with every bite!

Whenever he sees Mom & Dad making his food, he starts waving his arms around frantically - practically flying - excited to eat!

Maya, 8 months - from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

She loves oat and rice cereals.

Her favourite food would be butternut squash, sweet potatoes and arrow root cookies. She hates green peas!

Ojaswi, 6.5 months - from Australia

Hello all,

I am 6.5 months old!! Yayyyyyy! This world is quite an exciting place. I have been enjoying it so far.

Ohh I love colourful food... I love to try different things every day. Mum started solids when I was 4.5 months old. I like sweet potato, potato, carrots, fruit purees mixed with rice cereals.

Thanks for reading!

Cuddles,

Ojas

Rania, 8 months - from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

She started to eat solid foods when she was 4 months old.

From there I tried both commercial and home made foods. She eats almost everything I give her...apple, squash, sweet potato, pear, strawberries, lentil soup and mixed veggies includind carrots and zucchini.

She's a little explorer with regards to tasting new food just like mom and dad :-)