I hate weaning!

[LaDiDaDi]

Dd is 27 weeks now and I started weaning 2 weeks ago and I just hate it! I'm trying to do blw but giving her some purees to use as dips with breadsticks or rice cakes as will as sticks of fruit and veg. I find it soooo time consuming as I have to predict when she will be hungry and start to offer he food about half an hour before she would normally want feeding otherwise she isn't interested. The mess is un-bloody-believable and I reckon that she actually swallows about a hundredth of what she's offered.

How much longer of this weaning hell!

My dd only ate toast and fruit initially (separately) - she's permanently teething at the mo and seems to really enjoy pears/peaches/apricots/plums straight from the fridge. I guess they're nice and cooling and juicy. I just slice them into discs, iykwim. But she's now much more open to other things.

In fact, she has consumed so much fruit lately that I think I've given her the runs, poor kid . Will have to try and bung her up with something tomorrow.

I'm really with you on this one LaDiDaDi. I found weaning quite stressful with my babies.

With ds4 I decided to do blw on the basis that it would be easier and also because my older children had been really difficult to get from the puree stage to the lumpy food stage. However, like you, I seemed to spend more time preparing it than he would eating it and it ended up everywhere. In the end I went back to purees (usually out of jars - eg. Hipp organic) and he took to them like a duck to water. He did grab the spoon initially but I gave him a handful of spoons of his own to play with.

If your dd's spitting purees out it sounds to me like she hasn't quite got the tongue/swallowing action yet but that's very normal for this age. I wouldn't say that she doesn't like it on the basis of spitting it out. Also sweet potato mash maybe a bit lumpy for her - certainly was for all mine. With ds4 I left out the "lumpy" food stage (eg. the 7mth jars) and slowly introduced finger foods when he was about 8-9 months - tidy ones (relatively) like toast, pieces of ham, finely chopped grapes.

When he turned 1 I finished with purees and from then on he has eaten exactly the same as the rest of the family.