Getting ready for first foods

This is not health advice

When to start, what to offer and in what order is a conversation with your paediatrician, and only with them. What is here is the practical part: what to have ready at home and how to keep the memory of this stage, which is short and very funny.

What makes life easier

• A highchair you can wash all over, or a large sheet of plastic underneath.
• A long-sleeved bib. The small ones are useless at this stage.
• A suction plate, which buys you a few days before it becomes a toy.
• Two spoons: one for her to hold and one for you to use.

The memories worth having

• The face at each new flavour. Photograph the face, not the plate.
• A short video of the first day sitting in the highchair.
• The list of foods she loved and the ones she spat out. Fifteen years from now, comparing it with her taste is hilarious.