Crawling

Yes he is crawling now. Its almost been a week. He is doing properly with bottom shuffling. He is all over the place and liking exploring. He was doing caterpillar crawling earlier, but never came out of his play area. Last Friday i went to his daycare in afternoon. After feeding, i was playing with him. He came to me properly crawling. At first i didnt notice and then gosh he is crawling nicely. I was so proud as if he has conquered the world :D
Now at home he follows me till kitchen. Goes and holds on to dining table and chairs. Plays with kitchen trolley, picks onions potatoes from it. 

Baby food for 8 months

Here are food that i started at 8 months:

• Suji/Rawa halwa
• Salt and Turmeric
• I started putting pinch of salt and turmeric in one of his feed daily. 

Baby food for 7 months

Here are the foods that I started for him around 7-8 months.

• Beetroot
• Gourd
• Green Peas
• Grapes
• Raisin water

He doesnt like water as it is tasteless. So i have started giving him raisin water daily morning, that will fulfill some of his water requirement and it is good source of iron as well. I soak 4-5 black raisins overnight in half bowl water. In morning, i mash it and strain it. He is taking it happily.

• Fruit Juice

I have started giving him fruit juices, again mainly to fulfill his water requirement. I have started watermelon, pomegranate, orange juice till now. I will put recipies in separate post.

8 months

He is making many more sounds now. Incomprehensible and totally random but seems as if he is getting how the conversation is done.
He tries to pull himself up to sit. When he is on his tummy, he will lift his chest quite up, bring one leg forward and does something something and he is almost in sitting posture. He falls also many times in attempt to sit.
He had his first fever (earlier he had got fever because of vaccinations). His body was very hot, it lasted 3 days.  His sleeps were very disturbed and he was quite cranky as well.  I had planned to not give any medication. I had to give him one dose one of the night as he was very cranky. And continued with regular breast feed and diet. He was fine in 3 days.