I had completely intended to wait until 6 months and do BLW, but at 5 months DD appears to have taken things rather into her own hands by happily grabbing a carrot and gumming it to death over Christmas. Nappy suggests at least some of it went down! She is sitting independently, can definitely grab food, and didn't tongue thrust much of it out - so although "age wise" she isn't technically old enough, she definitely meets the "readiness criteria".
When we are eating she happily sits in the highchair and has really enjoyed playing with, sucking and gnawing on banana/steamed apple/steamed carrot for the past week. Today there was some definite swallowing going on after a bit of gagging, which I'm not worried about as she clearly dealt with it fine.
My question is - would you just continue with offering fruits and veg until she reaches the magical 6 months, or would you be happy to introduce other foods (I'm particularly concerned re dairy and gluten). I'm certainly not intended to shovel in large amounts of yoghurt/porridge etc - just wondering if she can gum some buttered toast!
Also, there appears to be lots of conflicting advice on loaded spoons - she had some swede and carrot mash on a spoon today (which mainly went in her eye!!) but she had a great time wiping it around her face and eventually dragging it into her mouth - but BLW purists seem to suggest this is a problem? Any advice?
Thanks so much!
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