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French weaning - anyone tried it? Tips please!

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FretfulPiglet · 25/05/2015 09:52

I'm planning to wean DD at 6mo and have heard that French mums add homemade vegetable puree /stock to milk and this helps babies to accept vegetables more readily.
I'm not sure if you are supposed to do this with a spoon or bottle? And how frequently?
Any advice please?

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VenusRising · 01/09/2015 14:02

Babies love vegetables, I really don't get the faff about "getting children to like vegetables".

Babies are programmed to eat when they're hungry, and as they're dependent on you to feed them, (bar the occasional raid on the dog's bowl, and eating things they find on the floor Wink) they'll eat anything you give them.

Don't make a big deal about labelling "healthy and unhealthy" food, and all that diet crap, just mash up what you're having, and make sure you're eating a varied intake if you're breastfeeding as all the flavours will go into your milk.

Get them used to bitter and fermented foods by offering pickles and vegetable water.
Get them used to garlic and hot foods like chillies and curries by having them yourself before your wean them off breast milk.

Babies love food- they're programmed to as without it they'll die.

They'll eat anything you give them.
No need to sell it big or anything, or pull faces,mjust pull their chair up to the table with you, when you're eating your meal, and purée and mash their food up for them until their teeth come in or they can choke on it.

I had a little hand held grinder for all the food- it puréed as needed and meant I wasn't faffing about when we were eating.
I spoon fed until the dcs could manage their own spoons themselves. Put a bit on their plate when you start out, for handling, and poking with their own spoons, not a lot, or they'll chuck it about, and get distracted. I puréed into little 100g bowls, so I could see roughly how much food they were having every day.

My babies ate everything we did, when we ate, with no drama.

Make sure you feed them enough- they eat a surprising amount. One of mine ate over a kilo (10x100g) of mashed up food over the day with 3 X 250ml bottles formula when she was 9 months. She turned away when she was full.

Babies don't need sugar or chocolate. Don't let them have them. Use mashed up / slices of ripe peaches and nectarines as treats.

Ilooklikeawhale · 01/09/2015 19:59

Ummmm I'm French and I don't know anyone who weaned their baby in that way... Just 'normal' purees is what people do, starting between 4 and 6 months old.
I am not convinced the way you wean your baby really influences what they will eat later in life. There are plenty of babies who eat a varied diet and who will stick to fish fingers / pizza etc... when they are toddlers...

Enjoyingthepeace · 02/09/2015 12:53

Didn't give weaning hardly a passing thought. Little bit of baby led, little bit of purées.

Now mine eat everything. Everything other than lettuce and raw tomato. Other than that, everything. I don't mind if they don't finish their plates, they always get pudding after. They scoff broccoli in front of the TV, they love chocolate, they never have juice, they have haribo as a treat, they will ask to eat a carrot, fish pie with corn in the cob is their all time favourite meal.
Right now they are eating some chocolate eggs for pudding. Lunch was grilled salmon, asparagus and new potatoes.

So, my advice is massively and hugely chill out. Worked for me.

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 07/09/2015 11:43

zonkmeister both my 2 had teeth late but did BLW easily. They do have teeth, they have just not come through yet. They are there, sitting in the gums. Both mine gummed and chomped on all sorts, way before they had teeth. In the early days you give them softish foods anyway - we started with banana, avocado, rice cakes, strips of roast beef were sucked and gummed to death by DD at 6m!!

MummyBoys · 19/02/2018 13:35

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arbrighton · 19/02/2018 20:48

Well given she was weaning 3 years ago @mummyboys and you might just be doing some spamming, no it probably won't help!

April45 · 20/02/2018 03:11

Be careful.. you may put your child off milk.

You can mix milk into a puree if you need to. You'll find they'll taste what you give them at this age.. It's the fussy 2 year olds you need to watch out for.

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