AIBU to ask what a typical days food look like for your 7mo?

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We have been using lots of Ella's kitchen fruit purée pouches, and I've made batches of baby purée using vegetable recipes from a baby cookbook. Can't get baba enthused about the veggies, but he loves the fruit. Typical day looks like:

Brekkie- Breastfeed and banana baby porridge
Lunch- Fruit purée
Dinner- Veggie mix purée which is usually given up on after a few spoons and back to fruit purée!

He breastfeeds whenever he likes between and after these, too. I offer water after each meal which he loves.

What does your LO eat? How do you interest them in new flavours? Do they eat what you eat?

It’s been a long time since I had a 7 month old but I (rightly or wrongly!) followed Gina ford pretty rigidly so they would have had

7.00 am 8oz bottle of formula followed by breakfast: plain cereal eg weetabix with some formula milk. Started to introduce Toast and fruit wedges for finger food.

11.45 lunch which was protein based like a puréed homemade chicken casserole etc

2.30 7-8oz formula

5.00 dinner which would be carb based eg baked potato cheese and veg. Water to drink

6.30 bedtime bottle 7-8oz

Not sure if we had another I’d do it exactly the same! But it worked at the time.

Sometimes my little one had fruit and veg puree mixed to get the taste with less fruit than veg. They like the sweetness. Also my little boy loved to chew on part boiled carrot and broccoli sticks.

I worry so much about choking, I would love to offer finger foods. I need to be a bit braver!!

DD mostly eats what we ear. She's just 8mo so has started doing lunch too recently.

Breakfast - 2 or 3 tablespoons of porridge and half a banana or handful of blueberries

Lunch - bites of my sandwich, cucumber, maybe some carrot batons etc if left over from dinner, maybe a rice cake. She doesn't eat much yet.

Dinner - whatever we're having plus extra veg - tuna pasta/ curry and rice / jacket potato and tuna / beans on toast. With full fat Greek yoghurt for 'pudding'

She's loved food from the get go (5.5 months) and we do puree occasionally like on hols when dinner was running late but generally just do normal food

Google choking vs gagging. I'd say ripe pear, carrot batons, sweet potato wedges and banana are good first foods.

You can split a banana long ways into 3. Break a bit off and look for the natural seam and gently press the side til it splits.

My DS is older but at that age I was using the Annabel Karmel book, I had him before BLW became so popular. At that age he was on 3 meals a day and 4 bottles. Meals may have been eg pork and apple casserole, tuna pasta using the tiny pasta shapes, Irish stew - that type of thing.

Try mixing fruit and veg together eg carrot and apple, or banana and avocado

I’m the same re choking OP- so worrried about giving finger foods so still on purées at 7 months here!

Did everyone find their babies took to water straight away? I can’t get mine to drink it - from any vessel!! He’s obviously ‘expecting’ Milk to come out and looks disgusted at the taste of water ...

6 and a half months here. Breakfast was porridge made with almond milk and rasps and banana slices. I didn't blend it but did mash the banana up a bit. Lunch was couscous with a 7 veg sauce and dinner will be scrambled egg. Trying to move quite quickly away from puréed!

He's 2 now but at that age it would have been breastfeed on demand and put food (soft fruit, cucumber sticks, cooked veg or toast) in front of him once or twice a day where he'd gum it/lick it/spit it out.

I started giving him pasta spirals and around 9 months. He loved them!

He also took ages to figure out drinking from a sippy cup bless him.

Ds would have been as much breast milk as he wanted and maybe one teaspoon of some kind of purée. He didn't really take to food!

Breakfast is wheatabix with mushed banana, or wheatabix with yoghurt and stewed apple, sometimes porridge with fruit.

Lunch: puréed veg, potato carrots etc or puréed potato, with mushed up beans and cheese added. Jacket potato is a staple he loves.

Dinner is mixed veggie purées with chicken or cheese added, blended tomato pasta, cottage pie or something with yoghurt to follow.

Oh and he eats loads, about 4-5 table spoons per meal, and always finishes. Breastfeeds whenever he wants too.

The choking will worry you when ever you introduce finger foods. My DD was blw so never had a purée, at 7 months she had:

Milk
Breakfast was toast or cereal soaked in milk.
Milk
Lunch is a sandwich, pinwheels, pasta, etc
Milk
Dinner was and still is whatever we are eating.
Bedtime bottle