The evils of adding sugar

[HopHopALady]

My DS and I have just started down that fun and enjoyable road to solids and lucky for DS, we have a garden full of fresh fruit and vegetables. I poached some of our pears last night but they were quite hard and I was worried they wouldn't be tasty enough so I added a bit of sugar to the water. Now I'm having an attack of the conscience. Should I give him pear puree tainted by sugar or will I be the worlds most evil mother for doing so?

skip the whole puree thing - just give him the whole pear, you might just be suprised how much he eats.
google baby led weaning if you haven't all ready heard of it!

Not the world's most evil, obv, but I wouldn't if he is so young. Hard enough to stop them getting a really sweet tooth as it is, without starting them on solids that incorporate sugar from the word go! I'm not rampantly anti-sugar but I wouldn't deliberately add some to young babies' food where it wasn't needed.

Not sure about implications for digestion, if any ... someone else might know better.

of your garden full of nice produce!

oh crikey, i'm sure he'll be fine

Make a pear crumble. Babies don't necessarily always gravitate towards sweet stuff - mine have liked both from the start, including really tart fresh blackberries. DD used to chew lemons...

I know people genuinely mean well with the "hey, skip pureeing, blw is better!", but I do hate it. First off, it wasn't what the OP asked; and secondly, blw is not right for every baby.

It's fine to suggest it as an option, but the blithe "purees are for squares!" type of line ... aargh. Apart from anything else, a fair few babies have developmental reasons why they aren't able to just charge on in to blw.

@1of4, thanks, am considering it but DH and I a bit -paranoid- worried about choking (DD was always gagging on her food and we pureed it to death - HV told me off when she got to 9 months and was still on purees! ). I may yet get over my concerns and take the plunge...

@DirtyMartini - am probably overstating it terribly! And any credit is due to DH, not me. My fingers are the opposite of green - I kill things (not intentionally, I hasten to add), not help them to grow, let alone bear fruit.

Yes, I'd be interested to hear of the implications for digestion if we have any experts out there.

Thanks Huw - support appreciated. Am saved from the jaws of hell for the moment then...

Should have read "paranoid worried..."

yes but only for the moment