DD scoffed my banana

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My DD is 22 weeks. For a couple of weeks now I have been letting her lick bits of cucumber or banana. Then last night I was eating a banana and when there was about 1/3 left she grabbed my hand, pulled the banana towards her mouth and she munched it in seconds!

She is not 6 months for another 3 weeks or so but should I start BLW? And if I do should I start giving her water to drink?

I think that's the Baby Led bit right there...
I started weaning DS a few weeks early also because he showed me he was ready.

Once you start on solids you do have to offer water. I'd put it in a sippy cup though.

I think the BLW book by Gill Rapley actually says that a good sign that your child is ready to wean is if she is picking food off your plate, putting it in her mouth, chewing and swallowing it!

TBH you might not get much choice about whether to start weaning now - once DD worked out the stuff I was putting in my mouth tasted interesting she began to grab food whenever it was within reach. But you might want to stick to fruit, veg and rice for the first few weeks.

OK thanks. I roasted some parsnip earlier and she knawed on that quite happily. Not sure how much she swallowed but she enjoyed herself and looked very cute sitting in her high chair!

With the water, should I try to 'feed' her, as in hold the cup to her mouth, or let her control how much and when she drinks?

Get a sippy cup or a doidy or just a plain beaker if you don't mind spills and offer it to play with at mealtimes. Don't worry about whether she drinks much. She may not eat much for the first few months and so long as she is still being offered formula or breastmilk on demand she'll meet her fluid requirements. At 8m DD has just started to show some interest in drinking out of her sippy cup rather than just banging it up and down on her highchair tray but she still isn't drinking much.

I do sometimes hold the sippy cup up so DD can get the spout in her mouth, but she just spits the water straight back out if she doesn't want to drink.

BLW is loads of fun - enjoy it!

Thanks - just bought Gill Rapley's BLW book, the BLW cookbook and a doidy cup from Amazon so I'm all set!

You only really need either the BLW cookbook or the actual BLW info book, as both have the same starting out info. The BLW info book is quite repetitive.a bit boring after a while.