BLW: When do they start to swallow a decent amount?

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8.5mo DS has been baby led weaning for almost 3 months. He's ebf.

Meal times are always good fun, and he's learning all about taste and texture which is great. But as far as I can see, he doesn't really swallow that much. Most things tend to get chewed around his mouth for a bit then spat out, or thrown onto the floor.

I know the whole point is that I need to relax and not worry about this, and I'm trying to do that, but I'm hoping him actually ingesting more food may start to have an impact on his sleep and mean he can go longer between feeds - which will have a positive impact on our lives as parents!

So when is he likely to start getting some decent nutrition from BLW? What happened with your DC?

Mine was around 10 months when her nappies changed.she would still prefer breastmilk to food at 12 months but eats at least 2 meals a day now, and picks at a third. She also eats more when I'm not about!

DS is 9mo, if it's something soft he can swallow a bit- although it may be that soft things are more diminished by chewing and squishing so it just seems that he's swallowed some. Harder things, say cucumber, he bites little bits and then rolls them around his mouth for a while before spitting them out.

He's huge - 98th percentile for height and weight so I had to start giving purees as blw just wasn't cutting it for him. He still has finger food all the time, but I do a bit of spooning too

DS1 was somewhere between 9 and 10 months when he went from an inch of banana to a whole one. It was all of a sudden. DS2 was under 6 months greedy piggy.

I think about 9 months for my DD. Previously she would have small amounts then suddenly more was being eaten. As long as they're interested I think that's the main thing-sounds like your DS is.
Before you know it, he'll be eating you out of house and home and demanding "more".

Thanks all. It sounds like 9-10 months might be the magic number, so we're not far away!

I think DS was around 9 months when his nappies suddenly changed. Not to be the bearer of pessimistic news- but it made zero difference to his sleep I'm afraid (He too was ebf, a rubbish sleeper, and around the 98th centile).

My daughter was around 9 months, something just sort of clicked and she started eating. She also started nursery around the same time and that helped her a lot. Try not to worry, it will just happen one day. Even now my daughter gets days where she is more interested in food than others, just like us, we get days where we are starving and days when we are not so hungry.