Introducing different flavours at 20 weeks

[WhoWillDoMyHoovering]

DD at 20 weeks seems to very much enjoy fresh fruit flavours sucked from my fingers (me having just eaten melon/pear/peach/apricot in a slurping ladylike manner). I have just tried holding a small piece of peach up for her to suck on rather than to eat and she was tugging it from me, sucking, chomping on it and pushing it into her mouth. I hung onto it so she couldn't actually swallow it.

I don't want to do full-on weaning yet, and I've read up on the '6 months' advice but is there any harm to give her a small piece of fresh fruit a day?

If that is ok, what would be the best way of giving this to her - should I hang onto it while she sucks, or would it be better to give her very small pieces to take from me? Or shouldn't I be doing this at all....

Thanks!

The advice is partly to protect the baby's insides so a small bit of food could have the same potentially negative effects as a large amount as far as I can work out. I wouldn't bother, it just makes a whole load of mess and your baby will likely be just as happy with milk for now - it's really better for her anyway.

Thanks - I'll hold off then. It's only another few weeks, so I'll enjoy EBF for a while longer :-)