advice seems so varied here

[colditz]

am weaning 6 month old ds - he has zero interest in purees, but will take your hand off for chewy lumps (and he really does chew!)

I gave him sweet potato mash (he gets a lot of that - it freezes well) for tea, but he will only eat it with something chopped up in it. Yesterday he had chicken, today it was mackerel.

Now I have been informed he can't have meat and fish yet.

Why is this? It doesn't upset his stomach at all, he doesn't react to it in anyway - is it somehow bad for him in a none obvious way? The net does not have a definate answer on this one! The only food allergy in my family is me, to kiwi fruit.

Who's informed you of that?

I think he can.

A friend who spent time nannying in America.

I think if he wasn't supposed to have it in moderation, he would probably spit it out. He bloody hates purees. I spent ages last week pureeing stuff - turns out he just tries to take mine instead. He loves to eat off my fingers! MmMMM smushy potato and cottage cheese, anyone?

I think the advice here is that they can have chicken, fish & veg from 6 months. Not that rookiebaby will eat any of those, sigggghhhhh!

I got the Annabel Karmel weaning book out from the library so it might be worth taking a potter there or I got quite a helpful leaflet from the HV.
And yes isn't it a TAD FRUSTRATING when they won't eat their lovingly prepared purees.

The major benefit of waiting to wean until 6 months (IMO) is that you don't need to bother with purees, and there is almost nothing you can't give them (AFAIK only nuts and honey should be kept back, other than that, what ever you decide taking family history etc into account.)

Gabrielle Palmer, the nutritionist who wrote The Politics of Breastfeeding, contends that first weaning foods shouldn't be cereal, that comes much later.
meat should come earlier (it's to do with our anthropolical history - agriculture coming late on in our history so our bodies are still in the stone age) and this will help iron levels better than green veg in which the iron is harder to digest.
my dd loves nothing more than chewing on a huge hunk of steak. i think you're pal might be inadvertently talking bolleaux.

not quite what you asked, but wonder if your friend based it on something along these lines!
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