Baby weaning book recommendations

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Can anyone recommend a book that has recipes for baby weaning and the mechanics of it. For example when you can introduce certain foods and at what age etc?

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Sorry, I'm typical MN style I'm not going to recommend a book, well not at first anyway.

Have a read of this guide from the Caroline Walker Trust. It suggests first foods to try, menus, recipes and even portion sizes. It's far better than any book I've read on weaning. You'll probably need from page 13.

The NHS Weaning advice is pretty good too as is the https://www.mumsnet.com/babies/weaning-advice-and-tips MN weaning advice

MN also have weaning recipes and a weaning talk section.

And finally, this is an excellent book as it gives meals that you can all eat, saving you the bother of lovingly preparing meals for LO only to have them chuck them on the floor

I read a bit of Holly Willoughby’s weaning book - there’s some nice recipes I’m there but I didn’t really use any of it in the end. I just kind of did my own thing - a combination of pouches, whatever we were having mashed up a bit, finger foods. It sounds daunting before you do it, but it’s actually pretty straight forward. They can eat pretty much anything except a few choice foods - I would just check the NHS site (honey just comes to mind and other foods you avoid yourself when pregnant). A few foods need to be prepped a certain way (cut grapes, crushed nuts etc) and common allergens introduced separately so you know what’s caused a reaction if they have one. Otherwise you can pretty much do what you like.

JiltedJohnsJulie Ok that's really great thanks so much, the Caroline Walker trust looks exactly like I was looking for so will give that a good read. It would be nice to cook for all of us rather than doing things separately so will get the book to.
Thanks!

Pinkblueberry thanks for the tips, feeling overwhelmed but I'm sure we will muddle through!

Gill Rapley's Baby-Led Weaning (it's the introduction book to the cookbook that was suggested above). Really clear advice and I was happy not to spend time making baby food and gave me confidence to serve solid food from day 1.

Gill Rapleys baby led weaning was very helpful for me. If you are looking to give baby what you are having its very informative. There is a recipe book aswell. Never gave my DS purees he had finger foods from 6 months and now at 1 he is an amazing eater. Took a couple of months for him to get the hang of it (and my anxiety's to lessen 🙈)

I also recommend Gill Rapley’s book.
BLW is definitely better than purées & stuff.

I did a combo of babyled weaning (using Gill Rapleys book!) which was great for building confidence and a bit of puree etc. Worked for both my kids.