Baby led weaning

[Sparrowlegs248]

Not far off starting BLW , have bought the Gills Rapley book, and thought i would ask for tips/advice here too. Or maybe there are others in the process or who are about to start to compare notes with.

Having read a bit of the book it seems i can give a variety of foods right from the start to.

Would be interest to know what you offered to begin, how soon you gave bread/toast and pasta .

DS is 5.1 months. He's ebf, refuses a bottle (took an ounce or two of ebm a couple of times but won't take anything now) He is starting to learn to use a sippee cup instead.

I just put expressed breathing milk in the sippee cup as he's under 6 months.

An update! Restarted properly yesterday after a week or so of ds having the odd thing to gum here and there. So yesterday he had baby corn, carrot and mango all in stick form, for lunch. Cauliflower and roast pork for dinner (i removed a bit of pork from his mouth....) today avocado, toast and banana for lunch, turkey burger (homemade) and mango for dinner. He has had a good go at everything i have given him, definitely swallowed some mango, corn, carrot, cauliflower yesterday and quite a bit of avocado and banana today, with a little bit of turkey. We are both enjoying it i think!

On the menu tomorrow is chicken and pear. Not sure what else yet.

Success with the sippee cup today too - actual sucking on the spout!

I loved the BLW recipe book and tried loads of things from there with DS. Still cook loads of family meals from it now and DS is 3.

I gave anything (except whole grapes and raw apple) from the start but was very careful about salt and sugar. Got lenient with sugar rather quickly though as we're pretty terrible with sweet things.

He's very keen for food which is great. Had a couple of thinks he didn't like - scrambled egg (think it was being fed with a soon that upset him) and roasted Buternut squash, i think in hindsight he was too hungry when i gave it to him. Whatever the reason, he cried at it!

Minor but scary choking incident with cheese on toast finger - toast with a little but of cheese sprinkled over. Husband properly panicked but it was coughed out before i had walked across from the kitchen.

Its funny to thinknthat a couple of weeks ago he had had no food ever and now he's had loads of different tastes!