@PurplePansy05 did you see my post about the Joie Steadi the other day? It's £66 in Tesco at the moment and makes a great spare if you plan on rear facing. But I'll try and get a post written this week assuming Leo is OK to go to Kita (fingers crossed as they have two cases of covid there).
We had two poos yesterday, hurrah! The first was a bit more paste like and had a stronger smell and lots of food remnants in, then the second was his perfectly normal poo exploding in random directions :o I have bought a couple of jars - carrots and rice; carrot, rice and chicken and carrot, potato and turkey. Couldn't find any prune but it wasn't needed anyway. I have remembered that all jars in Germany are 90% carrot, rice, apple or pear
There was a completely smooth "spaghetti bolognese" but I didn't fancy the look of that 🤢 I will have to get onto making some because all the jars taste exactly the same.
I think I'd roast the tomatoes and peppers and then blend and sieve to get the skin out. You could then mix with couscous, use as pasta sauce or rice (baby rice?) if the taste is a bit strong. Or just cut up raw pepper and serve in strips. Tinned tomatoes or passata is a good way to get tomato taste too, you could mix that with mashed potato and courgette, or scrambled egg. (I love tinned tomatoes and scrambled egg!) Making a kind of "ratatouille" is great as well - my mum used to make this without aubergine, it's full of flavour and blends down well for babies.
The whole allergies if given before 6 months thing is meant to be outdated, although I think it's still NHS advice to avoid those things. Interestingly ages for different foods vary around the world. For tomatoes, I think it's to do with the acidity and the similarity to the nightshade plant rather than allergies. For example some countries say to avoid kiwi and strawberries until a later time too. But there was an interesting study in Israel where babies are often given peanut puffs as a first food and they have lower peanut allergies than anywhere else in the world. From this more research is being done and they are finding that the earlier an allergen is introduced the better, although still not before 17 weeks. If you have family history of allergies then you should speak to a doctor though.
@RandomCatGenerator I did a long post on weaning at one point, possibly near the beginning of this thread?
Another way to get skin off easily is to blanch the veg in boiling water, but I imagine it makes them a bit tasteless. Never tried it.
No teeth here yet. I don't think it's a problem to keep using size 0 teats :)
@Ready2020 We don't give food every day although he wants it most days. I just did a couple of days off to allow for that poo to come through. Then this morning he had a suck on some raisin bread again. Will probably give him some lunch today. We still have night feeds. They do stop by themselves, but just to be aware that if you're waiting for that it tends to take longer than if you help them along a bit. My other two both had night feeds well into their second year. I think I will try night weaning around 15mo this time, and I'm thinking of putting him in the room with DS2 at around 8 months this time (and co-sleeping in the second half of the night if he still wakes up a lot).
I used a childminder with DS1 and she was lovely. I think it can be great for babies as it's a bit more like home for them. However we will probably go with a nursery when the time comes here as the language barrier stresses me out.
Yummy! Pizza is a great food for babies, especially home made.