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Deciding on when to start giving your child solid is really a personal choice. People from my parents generation used to feed babies from the age of 4 months. Even if you read on the net, they say that it is safe to start giving them solids at 4 months but advisable to only start feeding them at 6 months.

We chose 6 months however occasionally giving her fruits to suck on from 5 months, just to get her used to eating. Being the typical excited 6 month old parent, we also prepared puree for her. We started off with pumpkin - because of the iron content which is important for her at 6 months. We also followed that rule of thumb when introducing solids to babies - introduce one food at a time for 3-4 days before introducing another type of food just in case they have allergies.

However, our excitement was ruined when she didn't want to eat! So I thought maybe she doesn't like pumpkin so I made apple puree the next week, and then carrot the next week and then spinach the next week but it all turned to waste. So can you imagine all my hopes, just gone like that?

My mom bought Cerelac, the popular baby cereal. I didn't quite like the idea because I wanted fresh food, not some powder from the box. But you know what, at that point, I thought let's just give it a try - as long as she eats! She didn't like it too. And then I started buying every other brand of food on the babyfood shelves, organic, pouched, dried fruit, baby biscuits, you name it... none of them worked. 

I did more reading and it seems that some babies are fussy and some, are just not ready to eat yet.

The thing about Aisya is that she is not that type of baby that likes to put every single thing in her mouth. Her sense of recognizing things seem to be her hands - the sense of touching and not tasting. So every time something foreign comes near to her mouth, she will immediately shut it tightly and push away.


From 7 month onwards, we just kept on forcing the spoon into her mouth - just so she knows what 'eating' is. Some days she just swallows them unconsciously. Some days she pushes them away. Mealtime seems to be a nightmare for all of us haha. Some of our attempts include:
  1. Turn Barney on and when she's excited looking at Barney and open her mouth, quickly push the spoon into her mouth. She will swallow it and then continue looking at Barney - just simply uninterested with eating. 
  2. Because she seem to love drinking plain water, we trick her by changing between water and food in the spoon. 
  3. Pretending to eat her biscuits and all and she was still uninterested. Like "Ya mummy... whatever..,"
  4. We also did a simple experiment - where we give her the same food with the baby spoon and then our usual spoon and realized that she will only eat the one with the 'adult' spoon and 'adult' bowl. When we switch back to her plastic spoon, she will shake her head and push the spoon away. 
  5. Bought a solid feeder where we can put fruits in and she can suck through it without getting the chunks into her mouth but only the juice - didn't work. 
Solid Feeder - by Munchkin.




By 8 months, she seem to show interest to eat when she looks at us eating. She started imitating her cousin Khyra (who is 3 months older than her) when she was eating biscuits - then only did she understand that the biscuits are meant to be eaten and not thrown everywhere. When Mr eats oats, she seem to want them too and opens her mouth when we give it to her but only for about 4-5 spoons. 

By 9 months, she has already learn to open her mouth when we bring a spoon nearer to her mouth. Sometimes she requests for food too. We feed her practically anything that she requests when she sees us eating- bread, rice, apple, soup. We also realized that she needs to be seated at a certain seat to understand that 'it is now time to mamam..'. 

Magic Bullet
I didn't invest to buy any baby food blender and only use mom's food processor to blend Aisya's puree initially. But now that she's eating well, I've bought the Magic Bullet Blender from Lazada so that I can blend small portions of food instead of stacking a whole week's supply which needs to be defrost everytime before meal time. Some choose the baby version of the Magic Bullet called the Baby Bullet - but I find that they're both the same only the Baby version has extra storage containers which I don't need. Some buy the Avent steamer + blender however its a little too expensive for me.

I would love to feed her fresh food all the time but I realized that as a working mom, I cannot be expecting others to sacrifice so much so something minor so I've decided to only give her fresh food for dinner and also during the weekends. Other than those times, I'm okay with Cerelac.


Before this, we feed her solids 3 times a day: at 9am when she wakes up, at noon and also at 6 in the evening. However, Mr. did some reading and pointed out that maybe she needs more than just 3 times so we changed her schedule to 4 times a day: 9am; noon; 4pm and 8pm. Now, when it's time to eat, she starts complaining and gets all excited when she sees her bowl.

Syukur alhamdulillah. Another milestone indeed :)

I guess its true what they say: not every baby is the same. Starting solid at 6 months is the advice however it seems that mine was only fully ready for it at 9 months. Just make sure that you keep on feeding your baby milk especially mummy's milk as no food can replace the nutrients in the mummy's milk.

Yes, I am a strong believer in breastmilk!





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I'm a mess.

Everything is a clutter that I keep on forgetting things!

I'm sooo disorganized.

I need to buck up.

I need to plan and organize my things - and my LIFE!

People are wondering how I do it all at once - run a part time business, work full time and still be a mummy - the truth is I'm struggling.

I know I can do it but I need to be organized! That will be my no.1 priority for Year 2014.

Let's start off by organizing my purse first and then my handbag so that I don't keep leaving things at home- that includes organizing my make up too, they're everywhere!

I've decided to get myself this from Fashionvalet: 



Then move on to planning my life - get myself a planner. I've always told myself that I like to put reminders in my phone but you know, STOP PRETENDING, I still need that small notebook with me because you know what? I even forget to charge my handphone too...! pfftttt...

I'm trying to accomplish soo many things that none are really accomplish. Hmm.

I will keep posting on my progress, let this be a challenge to myself. New Year's resolution doesn't need to start exactly on the 1st of Jan 2014 - I'm working on it now.
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When I attended a talk by Mufti Menk last 3 weeks on parenting, he pointed out something very true in our modern era of hi-tech.

With the smartphones, we spend so much time on these social medias (Facebook and Instagram and Twitter), just to keep ourselves occupied that it has become a habit.

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Whether its 'going into the lift' or 'waiting for food to arrive at the restaurant' or even 'in the toilet'! It has become a habit to just click on the instagram logo and click refresh even if we just did that 5 minutes ago.

Menk puts our brain just like a computer - that it can only do so much in a day. He said that we've been spending too many space in the brain for unimportant things that we don't seem to have time for the important things like memorizing a surah from the Quran or to gain more knowledge to enable us to be better people - better Muslims. At the end of each day, we're just too tired to even reflect on our day. The excuse seem to be the same all the time  - I don't have enough time.


I was ashamed because I was one of those. It was time to set on some rules. He also reminded that if we want to see results in our child, we need to start with ourselves first. Since Aisya is still small, its best to just start right away. So we've decided that our new rule now is to not have phones on the table during meals. And not to play with our phones at traffic lights in the car. Me and and Mr can just go on and on talking and sharing ideas and perspective on things - on how to raise our child and our family - on Joe Flizzow and Vivy Yusof. Quality conversations.

However, that only lasted for 2 weeks and we're somehow back to our old habits back. Old habits do die hard! I'm not sure what's the power of these smartphones that just attracts you to just hold onto it and feel restless without it. I know for sure on of the reasons is because we're running an online store, so orders and enquiries come in various ways; facebook, instagram, whatsapp, emails. But we can limit a time to when we should check on them right? We should set a time!

I'm a little bit disappointed but I'm gonna take this as a reminder and a challenge that I can do this.

Lets.
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Hidayah or in other words 'Guidance from Allah' is something that Allah sends to those He wills. When Allah opens your heart for it, then you are considered the lucky ones.

Alhamdulillah.. you will hear people say.

However, people forget that sometimes, hidayah comes to those who also seek for it. Its vice versa, you see. Sometimes Allah takes away something that is very close to your heart, so that you start seeking for Him, for hidayah. But many are still to blind to see - sometimes because your heart is too dirty that it needs to be cleanse - or sometimes because you're still to attached to some other wordly thing - or sometimes because you are too ignorant that you choose to just ignore.

Sometimes, people also expect that hidayah comes in such a miracle way that a person can be a killer today and then suddenly, an imaam the next day - okay maybe that's a little too much hihi - people expect that one day you're drinking and gambling and then suddenly the next day, you're praying 5 times a day. OR something a little bit more typical - people expect that one day you're wearing sleeveless and miniskirts and then suddenly when you decide donning the hijab, you're expected to speak softly and cover up your chest and your neck and wear full long sleeve and wear socks --- oh come on...!

Yes, occasionally, people do change 360 degrees just like that. Some goes through stages. It's a matter of time - and Allah decides what works best for each individual.

Even if one have received his/her hidayah, one needs to still work on it because imaan can be a roller-coaster if you don't push to maintain it - what more to increase it!

So even if you accidentally miss your subuh prayers today, be sure that you pray the balance of four times, and try again tomorrow.. and the day after.. and the day after. Just make sure that you KEEP ON TRYING!

You will slowly realize that the same concept can even be applied to your everyday life.

Let's all try to be better Muslims and Muslimah, insyaAllah :)

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