Baby Of The Month - Previous Winners

May 2008

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 May's competition!

This month's winning photograph perfectly sums up the power of a good meal - just look at that blissful smile!
Congratulations to our new "Baby Of The Month"
Kabir, 7 months, from Hyderabad, India

Kabir's Mum, Kopal, told us...

Kabir is our naughty delight who hates to eat food!

We have to juggle, dance and do everything possible to make him eat but when we give him egg yolk or banana frappe - he just loves it and doesn't even wait for us to spoon it out for him! He just snatches it from our hands and finishes it within seconds.

If we give him something else to eat he just doesn't open his mouth and keeps it tightly shut, even milk from his bottle goes to waste because he nibbles at the nipple rather than sucking it. But for egg yolk and banana his mouth automatically opens.

After a good meal of banana frappe and egg yolk he goes to sleep instantly and smiles in his sleep!

Thank you, Kopal, for sending in this delightful photograph of Kabir - we hope he soon discovers some more foods that cause him to smile in his sleep!

Thank you, everyone, for all the other fantastic entries we received this month!

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

Gus, 7 months - from Washington, DC

Mr. Gus started solids when he was 6 months old.

He began with rice cereal mixed with breastmilk, but found it kind of bland, so we mixed it with a little fruit like applesauce or bananas. He loves plain bananas - they are like candy to him - he always smiles and grunts, asking for more!

Gus likes his veggies, too. He has tried sweet potato, peas, yellow squash, pumpkin and kale. His favorite hasn't been kale, but we are going to continue to mix it with things and see if he gets a taste for it!

Today he tried plums for the first time and really loved them, too.

He tried some lamb at Easter, but he has had no other meat so far. We might try some chicken soon, even though his Mom is a vegetarian.

Gus is a happy, smiley little guy. He has brought his easy going nature to feeding time and eats everything new that we introduce to him. We look forward to trying more new foods, especially finger foods, in the coming months - starting solids has been a great, new adventure!

Kaylee, 5 months - from Forest Lake, Qld, Australia

Kaylee began solids at 3.5 months old as she was so interested in our foods and my breast milk just didn't seem to be filling her up. I started her on very runny rice cereal made with my breast milk, once a day, then after 2 weeks of that i began adding flavours to it, apple first then pears, then pumpkin.

She now eats solids twice a day and her favourite dish is definitely a combination smoothie of apples, pears and banana with a bit of Heinz baby apple and blackcurrant juice. She gets so excited when she sees the food bowl coming, that she cant sit still. She cooperates by opening her mouth when she wants more and clenching it shut when she is full.

She even tries to feed herself sometimes, which can be messy, but hey - that's babies for you. I dont mind, I'm just glad to see she is enjoying meal times.

Ava, 5 1/2 months - from Tampa,Florida, U.S.

Ava is a little piggy!

She is a huge fan of breastfeeding - in fact, I was unsuccessful at getting her to take expressed milk from a bottle. So I wasn't sure how she would take solid foods. But she likes just about everything.

I was unsure of how to go about finger foods and when and what to introduce for solids. Your site is amazing and gave me help and advice that I really needed.

The transition has made her extremely constipated so I have to cut out such foods as apples and bananas and use more greens. This picture is actually a picture of her spitting out her very first meal of rice cereal when she was 4 months old and this goofy face she is making just cracks me up every time. I wasn't quite ready to introduce solids but she was pretty much attacking my food so I knew it was time.

I've been buying already prepared baby food but I really want to make my own - it's much healthier. So I stumbled across this website and it's excellent and very informative!

Angelique, 8 months - from Vitoria, Brazil

I started feeding Ange when she turned four months - very lucky that she pretty much ate everything and anything - just like her mommy, her eyes are bigger than her stomach!!!

I started her on fruit purees and cereal mixed with formula. She just turned 8 months and has already eaten a wide variety of healthy foods - she eats fish, (in fact today she devoured her very first sardine!), meat, chicken, veggies etc. She seems to have quite the sweet tooth as she loves her yoghurt at the end of every meal and drinks a bit of coconut water on the weekends.

I have started giving her some finger foods - she likes her pineapple slices and pitta bread and yes, food goes everywhere!

Tend to use my own recipes - Angelique's father is Brazilian and her mommy is Greek so she is getting a nice taste of both worlds!!! Very very happy little baby, the apple of her papy and mommy's eye- smiles the minute the camera is on her and is just sooooo beautiful to watch!!!!