can i ask you a cheeky weaning question?

[tastychristmaspud]

i know this is the breast/bottle feeding room but theres no many wise mnetters in here

hi dd is almost 6 months

think im gonna do a combination of purees and finger food sort of blw but with a few purees too iyswim?

is it best to give dd one food at a time?
and do i say give a carrott one day then if thats ok try say potatoe the next?

when can dd eat family meals
like tonighht we had herb crust rack of lamb
followed by cherry clauftous ala ramsey style mmmm
can i just whizz this in the baby blender
and give it to dd ?

what age can dd have tiny amounts of
herbs?
mustard?
garlic?
curry?
is there anything use must not give?
i heard honey is this right ?

Actually my foray into 'blw' waspurely by accident, ds was teething and dd had always liked to chew on the end of french bread, so I gave him some and he demolished it. (plus I was pretty lazy when it came to making 'purees' I was never one for jar bought baby food and got bored of constantly mashing everything up!

there are lots of virgin mnetters on here! me for one! had to read halfway up the thread to know what BLW meant! thanks for starting this thread - am off to read about what BLW involves! have to say that DS (nearly 15 weeks old) is licking his lips everytime he sees us eating our food. (with such fine cooking as mine, I dont blame him! )I cook a lot of indian food - lentils, veg dishes etc and was wondering about whether to give him those (minus salt of course).

i hasten to add, not planning to wean DS til 6 months! just starting to think about it so am glad stumbled across this.

Dal, mine about same age as yours give or take a week and same thing with the dark stares and drooling... So you'll be leaving the scraps out in Feb-ish then? Anyone else gonna do BLW then - we could compare notes?!

Will look at Aitch's site properly over next couple of days but I'm really worried (I'm sure this is SOOOOOO boring cos everyone says it...) about choking since my DS1 couldn't cope for months even with the runniest purees and gagged for about two years with even the smallest softest lumps...

But will seek reassurance elsewhere on the weaning thread perhaps!

dal21, the only thing I really thoguht about with the mish mash of blw I did was can ds pick it up? Spoons are bloody hard to handle for little babies, and I never cook with salt anyway so I didn't serve things he couldn't pick up but apart fromt hat, I don't think there is much you have to worry about. (He loved spag bol btw (as did DD))

Monkeybirds, dd choked on everything for ages, it got to the point we'd be sitting eating and she'd 'choke', I'd just look over at her for a second to see if she managed to sort it out (she normally bought it back into her mouth and then started chewing again ) You should've seen the looks I got

Now Wulfric that was, in the end, the prob with my non-BLweaned DS1 - in fact now at 8 he still hates anything like that - will eat chicken, will eat soup, will not eat chicken soup IYSWIM...

monkey - defo around feb time was when I was thinking about starting, been reading some of the blw stuff (another thread on this topic interestingly says that BFed babies may not wean as early as FF counterparts...). we should look each other up on the weaning thread (or on here and share notes).

I am definitely interested in having DS eat the same food as us since it is so healthy. Mum said she just fed us lentils/ yogurt etc when we were weaned from Bfeeding and never had any problems at all. would certainly make life easier (although dal dreads at thought of getting the tumeric in indian food out of clothing, kitchen walls, kitchen floors.....sigh!)

dal, you can get wicked little bib type tops that protect the clothes if you're worried!

They go over the sleeves and the whole top, I used to use it for the spagbol. Just as bad to get out of clothes.

Tinytim - may just build a shed in the garden - no worry about dirtying floors or walls, have ds in his nappy and then hose him off before bringing him in! ha ha. i am of course kidding.

the more i read on this, the more intrigued i am -no steaming/ mashing or pureeing....

You know what I love dal? BFing and BLW are a lazy persons dream, and you can do it under the guise of it being 'good' for your children

i definitely love it the idea, boob out when he needs it then he can steal the food off my plate. easy and low maintenance...

there's a forum on my website where the women who use it (lots of MNers) recommend products. in answer to the babydan question, go ahead, use the kitchen table, loads of people have tripp-trapps etc and they're great. but there's also a cool placemat you can get with a lip on it like one of those plastic bibs that the forum members rate highly.
there's also a great woman called Sheela who keeps posting her Indian family recipes so it looks like her ds is fine on home-cooked food.
and wulfricsmum, i get ear infections even now and the are HIDEOUS, seriously, i'd rather go through labour than have another bad one. i've been admitted to hosp on morphine! so i can QUITE understand how that would put someone off... it's so painful and miserable and your face swells up internally making it terrible just to move your jaw a millimetre. from teh outside you look like you've got swollen glands but on the inside it's like someone's inflated an enormous water balloon in your head. poor lad, i hope he's totally grown out of it.
and dh is still funny about combinations of textures... he tells me it's a man thing. hope annabel serves you well next time.

Ah, AK. I have all her books and they're gathering dust on my shelves in the kitchen, left unopened after the advice to, well yes, spend my whole life wedded to the blender and just knock up little delicate sesame seed goujons of fish with broccoli patties for my toddler... Oh yes, cos I've LOADS of time for that kind of cooking. So I think I'm a natural BLWer really - the older kids mostly have a (TM) ScummyMummyPicnic on the living room floor anyway consisting of ("as long as it's at least 3 different colours it's a meal") box of raisins, bread and butter, slices of cheese...