Baby's first foods

[Tiegs]

I will be starting to wean my baby on solids but unsure what to start him on fruit/veg / porridge
Any ideas what one is best

my first daughter has a peanut allergy so my next child i gave them peanuts as soon as i could.I gave mine a jam peanut butter sandwich at least once a week.Shes a few years old now and no sign of allergy's so here's hoping

I did purees/mashed food and finger foods. I only used pouches when out and about.
I really recommend getting a mini blender then you can steam or roast any veg and blend them, or blend some fruit. Mashed banana and avocado is really easy when pushed for time. Porridge or weetabix with fruit are good breakfast options.
I mainly cook from scratch for us so when they were a little older I just blended a bit of what we were having or adapted it slightly like mashed potato, mashed carrots very finely chopped meat or mince and low salt gravy, with broccoli or cauliflower florets on the side for example. Or a tomato/veg sauce with mini pasta for the baby.

It depends how allergic you are? I have a severe allergy to one of the main allergens on the list, so much so I wouldn’t be able to come into contact with DD for 48hrs if she consumed it. My immunologist advised to avoid it for now and organise a prick test to check DD for reactions to it when she’s older.

If you can, I would also really recommend buying the charlotte sterling reed or the joe wicks weaning books and following the plans in those. Really takes the stress away from having to try and read up about it online etc. C S-R does a whole section about how to introduce allergens.

Thank you very helpful

Did you use baby porridge with mashed or blended fruit ?

Okay thank you I will definitely do that because im breastfeeding and if I have peanuts will that go to him to start building his tolerance do you know ?

Perfect thank you

I'm going to do both thank you for your help

apparently if your breastfeeding eating peanuts is suppose to help i dont know but i like peanuts anyway so ate them anyhow lol

@Parker231 you're right that jars/pouches have similar ingredients and are really handy and easy. I've used them on odd occasion when out and about or on a crazy busy night.
The average shelf life of jars and pouches is 6 months to a year. I wouldn't like to only eat food that's been sat in a jar for months.

Yes no maybe.
So proteins can pass into the milk from the food you it but they will have been through your digestive system first and will have been partially broken down.
Babies can react to these broken down proteins, my daughter was, so you could give some tolerance but also as they are broken down the babies body might not recognise them as proteins from nuts in which case it won't make a difference. It usually the more sensitive babies that react through breastmilk and it is more usual that the allergies are detected through weaning or formula rather than reacting through breastmilk.
It's not going to hurt to have peanuts in your diet but don't force to be eating peanuts solely with the intention of developing tolerance.

My daughter could tolerate me eating fish once a week any more than that she reacted. My dietician suggested I kept it in my diet at this level to help her tolerance but she has always failed trials directly with a single flake of fish so it didn't seem to make much of a difference to her tolerance.

Did veg first - made no difference as he’s not keen now on it 😂 did purées plus finger foods from the beginning eg whole piece of soft carrot plus puréed carrot alongside

A food mat and sharing food wasn’t for us. DT’s were always in their high chairs for meals - non negotiable. We often ate out do they needed to learn to have meals at the table.

I started with banana mashed up with a bit of breastmilk with both of mine. They liked it.

With DT’s we got through tonnes of jars and pouches - nothing lasted long so shelf life wasn’t an issue!

25-17 years ago I found rice crispies great for snacking as they are really good for developing pincer grip and they melt on the tongue to avoid choking.

The pouches and jars are heat treated which likely kills some of the nutrients. Fine occasionally but wouldn't want to do that every day.

We did a mixture of finger foods and purees.

@Parker231 think you misunderstood the PP. They could have been sitting in the stock room or supermarket for months, not your kitchen cupboard.

We used jars/pouches the majority of the time with some finger foods thrown in there too and will again this time. Never considered BLW, seems wasteful to me. I want the food to actually get into them.

We did BLW with both, the one who took longer to take to it is actually the more adventurous eater now. It meant no special food prep just making our veg long-stick shaped for a bit and choosing an easy to hold pasta shape. We also mostly cut the salt out of our cooking. For foods that need a spoon like cereal or yoghurt we waited a few weeks then handed filled spoons to them to feed themselves till the mastered scooping. They could feed themselves fairly mess free including using a spoon well before 12 months. We bought no special baby food. We have the Ikea high-chair so take a few seconds to wipe clean. I don't like the look of pureed meals especially out of a jar or pouch.

Wasn’t something which worried me - my aim was to get a trolley load of different flavours and tastes in the right age group . When I went to my parents in Brussels, I’d buy lots there as well as they had different ranges. DT’s grew up eating everything and anything. Never had fussy children where one would eat this but not that.

@Tiegs yes I mixed porridge with different fruit purées for different flavours, that was my go to breakfast for my DDs

Thank you I will try that