BLW advice

[MrsMousesHouse]

My baby 7.5 months is successfully eating 3 meals a day and will try anything, which is great. I started off mixing purées / spoon feeding with finger food. However, over the last few days he has flat out refused to be fed or helped one bit, and wants to do everything by himself! So with that in mind I've reverted to baby led weaning and just letting him feed himself finger foods. That's all fine, however I'm struggling to work out how he can eat certain foods, as he's not yet able to hold a spoon properly (and won't accept a pre-loaded spoon)...So in BLW how do they eat things like bolognese sauce, or scrambled eggs? (Two things he used to love).

Thank you

For shepherds pie/cottage pie type stuff I roll it into balls and put them down in front of him. Still as messy as you’d imagine but he loves it, and I do anti ally it’s mega cute. I stay away from stuff I can’t roll or give him directly. So I’d prob give the Bolognese on toast or with a potato.

What spoon have you god? Our DC uses the large handled white ones from Amazon designed for self feeding.

With their hands. Literally.

I did BLW from the start and I just gave whatever we were having - stew, bolognese, lasagana and let them at it. With their hands. it's messy but effective.

Plain omelette strips instead of scrambled egg.

My son just rammed stuff into his mouth with his hands like an angry, starved chimpanzee.

Give them a spoon, my ds could dip a spoon into yoghurt with help with his aim quite quickly, let them practice!
Then just put it on the tray, with scramegg just dont stir it into too small pieces, twirly pasta is good with bolognaise, again they learn to pick or scoop it up quite quicky.

How would you serve curry?

I’d just plop it on the tray or in a dish and give it to them, curry is one of the more accepted foods to eat with the hands.

I used to give rice cakes (completely plain ones, not salted or flavoured) instead of rice with curry.

I’d just plop it on the tray or in a dish and give it to them, curry is one of the more accepted foods to eat with the hands.

Same. With rice mixed in to dry it up a bit. And naan on the side to dip in sauce.