Hey everyone! Sarah here.In this article, I’m going to talk about how I started Ethan, my now-toddler, on solids back when he was 6 months old.  This is a little bit out of our wheelhouse, and I don’t claim to be an expert! In fact, I’m a little nervous publishing this article, because topics around parenting and kids is often so fraught!  But my sister encouraged me to share our experience and document the journey here on The Woks of Life, because it’s had its ups and downs, and many of you found our posts on Postpartum Chinese confinement practices and postpartum diet helpful.In her words, “someone out there needs your big sister energy” (by which she means my insane level of research, planning, and neuroticism around this topic).

Whether you’re expecting or wondering how to start solids with your baby soon, I hope sharing my experience helps you prepare—or at least feel a bit calmer than I did about the whole thing.  Future me (for whom I’m also writing this post), here’s what we did! (Let’s repeat it with any future kid(s), because Ethan loves tofu and mackerel, which I think means we won.) Disclaimer! Of course I may eat those words, because all kids are very different individuals, and we may have a correspondingly different experience with the next kid.That is to say, everything I’m writing here is just to share my own experience, and suggestions may or may not work for you and your family.You know your own child and y

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