Camping whilst weaning

[shegetsthatfromme]

Hiya, Planning on taking DC camping when she will be 6-7 months old. I suppose I will have started weaning by then, will this be a problem at all?? If we have a little camp stove to heat up our things I guess we'll manage to prepare her things too. Any advice on what to take or not take?

Dont worry at all, you will probably only just have started weaning then so at worst, you can go back to just milk (if you BF thats dead easy, if not consider taking the prepared cartons of formula). The Ellies Kitchen pouches are great, my DD sucks straight out of them, and they take up no room and dont split when packed. DD was perfectly happy with cold food, but as you say heating things up in hot water is dead easy.

Happy camping

totally agree, ellas kitchen pouches were fabulous when we camped last year. have a lovely holiday.

Same issue here - we're going for 2 weeks and DD will be 7 months. I was thinking of doing the new "baby led weaning" which is solid chunks of food for them to suck on - think there's an article on MN. It means no purees at all!

Have a look - it may help you too for ease of camping?

I'm still a bit stuck about what to do about high chair though? What will you do? With baby led weaning they need a table to take food from.... Do you think a Bumbo with tray would be good?

Yeah Bumbo with tray will be fine. We take our IKEA Antilops (12mo twins) and even though they take up a lot of space in the car it is worth it for the convenience.

We just give our twins jars/pouches of baby food when we are camping. Plus the fruit, yogurt, porridge, oatibix etc that they have at home. At 6mo they might eat quite a bit of baby rice which is very easy to make esp if you are using formula. My two were ebf before starting solids but after 6mo that I found formula very handy for adding to their food if I had none expressed (and formula has added iron/vitamins which is good - as long as they are not intolerant to cows' milk)

At 6mo they don't eat much, blw could be successful but my two didn't take to blw too well (they only ate toast and rice cakes and although that is supposed to be OK wioth blw, I wasn't happy with their range of food intake) so it just depends on the baby. I sometimes take a few days' worth of stuff I have made myself, we have a fridge so it keeps well, and then go to jars after that. Enjoy!

We actually weaned ds4 in a tent last summer, it was fiiiine. Mostly I sat him on my lap, but a buggy and a towel will do as well in all relaity; for BLW bumbo and tray is fine.

Honestly its not hard, boil the utensils to sterilise or take a cold water unit. Then just go with.

We took a nappy bucket (a clean one!) to use as a cold-water steriliser, just used Milton tablets.