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Help.....weaning advice

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PureedGoodness · 03/03/2013 15:35

I started weaning my ds at four months old as he was showing signs of being ready. he was very good and enjoyed everything we gave him which was pureed. He is now six months old and I have recently started making his food more textured and thicker but he just isnt interested in it. He ends up putting his bib in his mouth after i have given him a spoonful of food, he then sucks his bib and the food ends up on his bib rather than being swallowed. He still enjoys his pureed foods though but i am getting anxious that he wont eat anything but.

I am worried i left him on pureed food for too long failing to introduce textures sooner. I dont think my HVs are brilliant at helping with weaning. They seem to have left us to it. I was focusing more on giving him different tastes to try so was working my way through the five steps in the cow and gate booklet.

Any reassurance and advice would be more than appreciated. I got really stressed at lunch time when he wouldnt eat his food I had made. He tried pureed chicken for the first time but didnt like that either. Probably because it was still quite textured.

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luanmahi · 03/03/2013 15:52

We didn't start weaning with purees at 6 months and it was over a month before we started making it more textured. We started giving her finger food and things like pieces of fruit and toast to feed herself at about 8 months. As long as you're giving him a varied diet he's got plenty of time to move at his own pace.

At some point between 9 and 12 months, they should be more or less eating the same as you (with obvious exceptions) so you've got plenty of time. Just let him dictate the pace and don't worry.

luanmahi · 03/03/2013 15:53

Sorry cutting and pasting error We DID start weaning with purees at 6 months!!
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enormouse · 03/03/2013 15:59

He's still so young. Plenty of time to acquire tastes. I started my little guy at 6 months but he didn't really take to it till 8 or 9 months. Now at 16months he's fantastic with food. I understand completely how u feel. I found the baby led weaning book a great source of info and reassuring. If u want I can send it on to u now my bubs is completely weaned. X

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PureedGoodness · 03/03/2013 16:17

enormouse thankyou for the offer i have a copy of that book already. my friend gave me hers but havent had chance to read that one yet. i am confused about led weaning.

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Willitberaaaaspberry · 03/03/2013 17:03

He's still very young and will be getting an awful lot of his nutrition from his milk.

I remember being worried about this too (especially as HV said that "you mustn't miss the window to introduce more textured food or you'll end up with one of those babies who only eat yoghurts!" Sad

I too struggled at first with baby led weaning as none of my family or friends had even heard of it and again the HV actively discouraged using it.

So I did my own research, read the book and decided that I would try and chill out a bit. The phrase that stuck in my head was 'food is fun until they are one!'

It gave me the confidence to just try different things. When we had lunch or dinner just letting my dd have any bits she fancied. If she played with it fine, if she ate it fine as I knew that most of her nutrition was still coming from her milk.

Over time she slowly built up a good variety of things that she loved and could eat without help. She seemed to go back over at about 8 months (I foolishly thought I'd cracked it but she kept me on the straight and narrow that she's in charge. Grin

Then all of a sudden she was 1 and eating her meals with us, able to go out to restaurants without having to take anything special for her and really enjoying her food.

You have to do whatever suits you though as trying to go against what you, as the mum, finds natural it won't work as your ds will pick up on your 'vibes'.

Good luck, I'm sure your ds will be tucking into his 3 course meals in no time!

PureedGoodness · 03/03/2013 17:04

Qtpie - many thanks for ur advice and taking the time to reply. You have definitley reassured me so thank you for that. Being a first time mum does make me quite anxious. I will continue to follow my ds pace and concentrate on hos nutritional needs and try textured again in a few weeks time.

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janey223 · 04/03/2013 01:22

DS would never touch any purées I made with meat! So he got red meat from pouches (great when out + they learn to suck it out themselves!) and I gave him chicken as finger food.

Started weaning at 4.5 months and by 5.5 he had purée breakfast and lunch and finger food dinner, then at 6 months I still puréed but not as much & by 8.5 months he was mainly on proper food.

Go by when he's ready and don't worry, finger foods are much better to teach them to chew than lumps!

PureedGoodness · 04/03/2013 10:47

janey - thank you for your advice. i definitly feel better about it now thanks to everyones advice on here. got a mountain of vegetables to do some batch cooking today so will just do pureed foods and may miss out the in between bit and go straight to finger food when he is seven months

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