Desserts - does everyone give their baby dessert?

[HappyCatandIzzy]

My 6 month old DD is eating small amounts of veg purees and I'm increasing the amount quite slowly as we've only just started weaning. How do I know when to stop increasing the savoury and instead add a dessert (I mean yoghurt, fruit etc rather than chocolate pudding) to her meal?

Just put food off your plate onto her tray, and she will eat whatever she wants, and balance her own diet. I really really don't think there are any rules about when to stop increasing savoury, and start giving sweet, I have honestly never given it a moment's thought and I've weaned two.

Sorry I bet this doesn't answer your question at all, but I thought you might like to know that you don't have to do this.

My HV told me to stick to veg and savoury stuff for the first month so DS wouldn't get a taste for sweet food and then not eat veg. I gave him sweeter veg such as parsnips and pureed peas though. (he's now 8 months and is at nursery where they do a pudding after every meal - so he does have fruit / yogurt / fromage frais etc and he does prefer the sweeter stuff!

We do sweet separately but we are doing BLW. As Colditz says, pile it up, then pick up what remains half an hour later.

Try bits of banana (puree them if you must be they are mushy enough).

dd loves frozen blueberries so she often has them with her porridge in the morning. apart from that she'll have a banana often but we don't do dessert as such.