Annaprashan is process when an infant have food (anna/anaj) for first time. In hindu tradition annaprashan is celebrated just before baby complete her six month. Annaprashan date usually decided after consulting with pandit/batt/guru or you can decide date according to your convince.
You can invite all your close family members and friends for this celebrations.
Dress your baby traditionally I.e. for baby boy dhoti or dress like krishna and for baby girl lehnga or ghagra choli. Make tiaras of flowers ang necklaces of flowers. That how you can make your baby more beautiful and comfortable too.
Mothers brother (mama) or mother of baby can keep the baby on their lap and sit facing north direction and then annaprashan vidhi start.
first baby should give annaj daan (food donation) before having food for the fist time. Buy ananj (food) according to you convince. we bought daal (1kg), rice (1 kg), atta (1 kg), sugar(1kg) and salt (1kg) and anaj daan should be given to pandit or bhatt after baby touches whole stack of anaj daan you can give it to pandit.
Mama or mother will first take stick of tulsi (basil leaves) and dip in honey then write om on babies tong. Mama can do aarti of baby. Take kheer (sweet milk with cocked rice) in silver bowl and silver spoon if possible.
Mama can now feed baby kheer to baby and now all other close family members and friends as couple feed baby small quantity of kheer.
At the end you can play interesting games for baby, you can put some toys related to career for example book (study related career), money (business) and flowers (art) and put toys in front of baby. Let baby go to toys he is attracted to and out of three times if baby selected same thing more than one time then it is belived that baby with take career related to that toy.
I am attaching some pictures of my daughters annaprashan celebration, i hope my blog will help in some way to celebrate your baby and create most precious memory for you and your baby
