Kind mumsnetters please tell me what your toothless ebf BLWers are doing?

[notsuchayummymummy]

Hi there, just wanted a bit of feed back on what your los are doing. DD is 12 months old, toothless but been BLWing since 7 months. Was EBF but has now started having some cows milk. Would really like to hear what your little ones are eating and their favourite foods etc. Just need some hints as DD1 has oesophageal problems and by no means eats a normal diet so want to check I'm not unintentionally excluding things.

Sorry for the waffle

Any replies would be greatly received.

My DS eats almost everything we eat. Quite likes noodles at the mo as they are fun to play with, really likes stew, loves salmon pasta. There is not really anything he doesn't like except strong cheese (Boursin) He seems able to eat most things but struggles with things like Olives as they sip off his gms and he cant chomp on them even after he has bitten bits off with 2 front teeth.

Thank you very much candr. I have to admit she finds blueberriers annoying for the same reason. Does he eat things like tomato, apple, pear?

With tomatoes the skin can be a PITA and he will sometimes retch on it till it comes back up. He likes sucking and chewing on slices of fruit plus I blend some (cooked fruit) up and put it with yoghurt. He loves roast and new spuds as he sucks out the flesh and spits out the skins but likes chewing on jacket skins. Had fun with raspberries and they make a good splat on the floor to his amusement.
I just need to remember to cook without salt and we add it to our plates
Is great eating out as you don't have to take food with you, I just keep a bowl, spoon etc in bag and he has a bit of what we are having which exposes him to a wide variety.

DD is almost 11 months now, she eats food - everything we eat, she's least keen on bread doesn't really eat much, but eats pretty much everything else. skins are ejected after the fruit sucked out - although blueberries are all eaten, same with pears, tomato less often but sometimes.

There's not a single thing we avoid now other than whole nuts, and there's nothing she consistently turns her nose up at and rejects - different meals she eats different things though sometimes not eating all that much of something she's eaten lots of on other days.

He favourite foods are mostly potato based, but anything really is wolfed down, we just give her what we eat for everything other than breakfast when I'm giving it to her as I don't eat breakfast. Where I give her her own cereal, or scrabbled egg.

Very occasionally we'll give her something extra as well as what we're having e.g. some left over chili which she loves if we're having something she struggles to eat lots of.

DD will be 1 tomorrow and has only this week sprouted her first 3 teeth all at once. She's been doing half BLW and half mushy stuff and she loves the following:

Steak
Prawns
Spinach tortellini
Baby sweetcorn
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Macaroni cheese
Garlic bread
Crunchy Bran cereal, either dry or with milk
Courgette
Cherry tomatoes
Pesto
Black beans
Roast potatoes
Spaggy bol
Buttered brown toast dunked into runny egg.

Sadly she doesn't like sweet stuff much, though lately she's really been keen on grapes, pomegranate seeds, canteloupe melon, blueberries and strawberries. 3 weeks earlier I couldn't get fruit into her at all. She still hates bananas and doesn't touch yoghurt or rice pudding type deserts. I admit I do worry about her calcium levels :-(