pouch purees for a BLW baby

[hazchem]

hi ya,
DS is 9 months. We have been BLW and it seams like it's going really well. This week he was given an ella's kitchen fruit puree thing as a gift. I gave it to him after his dinner and he just loved it. Sucked the whole thing dry and then spent a few minutes getting cross that there was no more.

should i be giving him these on a regular basis?

He has fruit every day. mostly fresh but sometimes dried. I've been known to make baby jam by cooking dried prunes and apricots to a paste to add to yogurt or put on toast.

I have no object to the pouches but they are a bit pricey.

It's kind of a step backwards, isn't it? If he eats fruit already, there's really no reason to shell out for these things.

He'd probably do the same with a bar of chocolate - get cross when he'd eaten it all - it tastes equally nice and I DD would be a bit when there was none left, but you wouldn't be worrying about giving him that on a regular basis because he liked it and got cross

If you want to buy them, there's no reason not to, but as he eats fresh fruit every day then it's not a problem - it's the same thing, without the fancy packaging or pureeing - and it's no more portable than a banana, orange or an apple! DD is 21mo, was BLW and managed just fine without a pouch of anything, she was rather bemused to see DN eating her apple out of a foil packet.

I see them as treats too. Even the purée babies seem to prefer the jars and pouches over homemade. I dont know why but maybe it's sweeter? Even it it doesnt add sugar, it might have juice concentrate as flavouring?

Flisspap I too get upset when the choclate is all gone so I like the analogy.

I think I had a bit of a crisis thinking i'd been staving him or something but feel much.

Treats they are then.

DS was BLW and I used to get the fromage frais/yoghurts in Ella's Kitchen type pouches. He was very independent took to BLW like a dream and it let him eat yoghurt by himself.

The pouch was the cleanest i'd seen him eat. He just chucked the nozzle in his mouth and sucked away!

We do BLW and DS loves to get his pouches out of the cupboard and "eat" it himself. I use them alongside his normal fruit and veg and tend to keep a few in my bag for when I get caught short whilst out and about.

Even my 5y would have a pouch if she could. For some reason they love them, even fruit that as whole fruit they won't touch, smush it, stick it in a pouch and they suck it down. Weird kids

I used to keep one or two (fruit only) in my change bag in case of emergencies but they would never be there when I needed them

I'd look at the calorie content though some of them are very very low kcal and I didn't feel quite right giving DD3 (had weight gain issues) all of the varieties on sale but the breakfast ones with prune/mango/banana seem fairly filling rather than sweet, watery pap. DD3 seemed to prefer them too.