DS2 is 26 weeks old in three weeks time...

[hunkermunker]

And showing no "signs" of being ready for food.

He had a fussy week or so around 17wo, but I just fed him more. And guess what? He settled. So had I given him baby rice then, no doubt I'd have said it was that that settled him.

Anyhoo.

What should his first food be, do you think?

mud

locusts

clay oven roasted butternut squash - pureed between a llamas hooves

Do remember I quite like this child...

Go on give him a chocolate button!

Rich tea biscuits go nice and soft dipped in a cuppa. Excellent first food.

my neighbour gave her DS tea biscuits as a first food at 2 months to try and get him to sleep better !

She is a bit mental though!

I suggested it because i left my ds with mil the other day and she told me she nearly gave him them because she thought they'd go nice and soggy in a cup of tea my face was a picture!

Ahh the MIL! It was my aunty who gave DS1 white chocolate before he was weaned and he was up all night throwing up! Months later she let him drink a whole carton of undiluted grapefruit jiuce and guess what??? Yep - he was up all night throwing up! He doesn't go to her place now.

Lol they're mad aren't they although i have to say once they are fully weaned and are used to a selection of fruit and veg there's nothing like their faces when they try their first chocolate button

True! Mine are both good eaters and love fruit etc but get very excited about chocolate! They are like their Mum!

I'd just keep offering bits of your food and see what he's interested in.

I think DS2's first food offered was a spear of red pepper. The first food that actually went down? I think it was a bit of chicken, about a month later.

That's what I plan on, NQC.

Must stop eating chocolate buttons then (mind you, they've got salmonella in haven't they - oh that's just the sort of thing Cadbury don't want posted, I bet...!)

The Salmonella discovered is not considered to be at a level dangerous enough to cause any problems.

HTH

I know you've got millions going begging...........................

Ah, just mild salmonella. That's all right then. I like mild salmonella in my chocolate. Makes it taste better.

Pshaw!

I always started min eoff on carrot. Then mixed the carrot with potato. Then used jars and packets

Witchity grubs? (Organic ones, of course!)

Mears!

I'm going HV baiting tomorrow. Or, as other people call it, getting DS2 weighed

Wonder if I'll be asked if he's on solids yet. And why do I find the word "solids" so offensive and heave-making?

How's your ankle, btw, Mears? And the new job? Which is an old comfy job by now, like a big flumpy pair of nice socks, I think.

Ankle still throbs now and then Hunker. It is 11 months now since i fell down the stairs! Still not loving the new job, but it is better. Only a few more months to go then I can return to clinical job. Haven't seen a baby being born for monmths on end. Missing it

Thanks for asking BTW. Arte you feeling any better?

I'm feeling much better, thank you. Am starting a business, which keeps me too busy to think of anything else (still get a bit low sometimes, but nothing like as bad and my DSs are just brilliant - DS2 SO smiley and peachy and DS1 adorable with him and talking non-stop now).

Sorry your ankle's not 100% and hope you get to see a baby born soon. You could've come down for DS2's birth you know