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July 13, 2011 at 3:44 pm HST

Baby's First Foods - Creating Positive Patterns Around Food

As the time approaches for the introduction of your baby's first foods, consider the opportunity that now awaits you, beyond choosing what foods your baby will eat. This is an opportunity to give your baby the most positive imprint about food, eating and digestion that you can. Remember, the introduction of your baby's first foods is another milestone in the development of this child on their journey of Life. Their first impressions about food and the role it plays for them will begin with you and the approach you take.

Food is an on-going celebration of Life. The vast array of fruits and vegetables that will begin your baby's experience offer an explosion of flavor, texture and color. As you celebrate this variety and beauty, they will vicariously establish their set point about fresh, live food in the same way.

The foundations of health are built around a diet rich in natural, fresh whole foods. As you prepare the first foods, be excited and anticipatory knowing that your baby will be having their first experience of this taste and texture. Keep it light and fun, realizing that these first tastes will be just that. Small tastes, with much of the food coming right back out, as they practice this new way of eating. Slowly they will calm the tongue thrust which was so vital to easy nursing, and over time more and more food will make its way into their mouths.

Be calm, be patient and most of all have fun!! Celebrate this time for nourishing your baby, by creating a ritual that can continue and grow as your baby grows.

Here is a ritual I enjoy. Try it out and adapt it to fit your family.

Take a moment to pause before you eat or serve food to your baby to bless the food, coming into alignment with the vibration of goodness and vitality it provides

Affirm that this food will provide good nourishment & be delightful in many ways. Smile and know that with this food you touch the deliciousness of Life itself!

A simple song that our little ones enjoy follows: They have all heard this song since they were infants and ask to sing it before every meal.

Oh the Lord is good to me
and so I thank the Lord
For giving me the things I need
The sun and the rain and the apple seed
(may substitute any fruit or vegetable you like here)
The Lord is Good to me.

And every seed I sew
will grow into a tree
And someday there'll be apples there
For everyone in the World to share
The Lord is Good to me.

Remember that the word "Lord" means the "Law of Life", so this song is yet another way that you are affirming that the great Law of Life is in place to serve us all, easily, joyfully and abundantly!!

Bon Appetit!!

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