~guest post by MRS

One morning HandyMan called me from work and asked me how my day was going. In the middle of changing a diaper, I propped the phone between my ear and shoulder and told him that so far that morning I was 3 for 3. Confused he asked me what I meant and I replied that I had changed 3 diapers so far that morning and all of them had been poopy, thus 3 for 3. Such is the glamorous life of a stay at home mom.

Sadly that’s not an abnormal morning for me. Sometimes it seems like all I get done all day is feeding the kids and changing their diapers. When Blue and Daisy wake up in the morning they both act as if they’re starving and demand food. Blue waits, temporarily appeased with an episode of Thomas & Friends (Blue is obsessed!), while I nurse Daisy. Then I change both their diapers and get Blue and myself breakfast. And so goes the rest of the day.

Recently we added even more feedings to our day when we started Daisy on solid foods. I had put off introducing baby food because Daisy was premature and because it would just add that much more to my day. I thought as long as she was satisfied and gaining weight well with just breastfeeding that I would hold off on giving her baby food. But at her 6-month well child appointment, the doctor strongly encouraged me to start giving Daisy solid foods. So we did.

And while it has added more to my daily “to do” list, it has also been fun. Daisy hasn’t had a lot of variety yet, but I really enjoy watching her learn and experience new things. The faces Daisy makes as she tries a new food for the first time and the excitement she shows when she really likes a new food are so fun to watch. Sometimes she is literally bouncing in the high chair while I feed her.

But what about the safety of baby food? As a stay at home mom, I have enough to do trying to keep up with laundry, cleaning and taking care of the kids that it seems overwhelming to add making baby food to the list, but I want to make sure the food I’m feeding her is healthy and safe. To ease my concerns about the safety of baby food, I did a little research and learned that the plastic used in Gerber baby food (the kind I generally buy) is BPA free and just by reading the labels of baby food learned that the only added ingredient is water.

So I continue to buy baby food. And this gives me more time to play “choo choos” with Blue, cuddle with Daisy and change all those poopy diapers.