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Weaning

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Question about baby led weaning...

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PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 25/05/2007 23:05

I've had a look on the web site but for some reason I have a complete mental block about the very beginning part!! Please can someone in simple plain for eejits english list a step by step example of what and how to offer 'baby' their first EVER solid food.....???

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PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 25/05/2007 23:06

p.s. @ 6 months

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PinkTulips · 25/05/2007 23:09

dump some finger food in front of baby

watch baby's eyes light up

baby grabs food and tried to lick it / suck it / ram it down its throat

clean baby

clean entire room

think that baby didn't eat a bite

change nappy next day, find carrots and jump around room in excitement

and repeat

CantSleepWontSleep · 25/05/2007 23:10

Cut some carrot into sticks (like chip shapes), boil/steam until soft. Give to baby. Repeat as necessary.

Aitch · 25/05/2007 23:12

lol pt. although dd's first food was a bit of lovely yummy peach that she grabbed.

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PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 25/05/2007 23:16

Ah I see - how terribly magnificent! can I let her grab off my plate or is that a bit advanced?? What about rice? Any point? Or mush banana? How many times a day???

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Aitch · 25/05/2007 23:21

how many times do you want? do you want her to have rice? banana doesn't need to be mushed but can be tricky to hold in the beginning...
honestly, it's up to you and the baby. i started off with one session a day (i hesitate to call it a meal cos it was really a 'taste and feel' sesh) but i think we offered her snacks like fruit. get any thoughts of 'meals' out of your mind and think of it like a fun activity, the milk will do the job for the moment.

Aitch · 25/05/2007 23:22

re banana, i meant don't expect the baby to pick it up, rather than mush it. blw isn't a mush sort of thing.

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PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 25/05/2007 23:26

Thanks aitch - re. banana I was thinking about stabbing it vaguely with a fork just to make it more 'tactile' and to increase the chances of of something reaching at least one taste bud.... I have absolutely no desire to go down the rice route if it's not required - rice is so dull!

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Aitch · 25/05/2007 23:30

best thing to do with banana is cut it in half and then peel it as if to make two wee mini bananas. i used to cut the spare bits of skin off. have a look at the blog, serach under banana and you'll see a photo. other people have also reported that if you break a skinned banana in half then put your finger up the middle of it, it kinda falls into three parts, which are 'chip-shaped'. some babies like that.
i think banana is rather slippy and frustrating, tho. start with a lovely ripe peach (they'll suck it and leave the skin) or the carrot sticks, things like that. it's all in Finger Foods Month 1.

colditz · 25/05/2007 23:32

Ds2's was well steamed broccoli

PondLife · 25/05/2007 23:53

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Aitch · 26/05/2007 00:01

he makes a moue? i don't know what that is, sorry.
i think it takes some babies longer than others, tbh, some of them just don't seem that interested for the first while. it may be wrt to his gagging that his gag reflex is taking a while to move back in his mouth, so he may be more sensitive. practice makes perfect on that front, i'm afraid. (i have a really disgusting example of how people, generally ladies with big hair and false breasts, can train their gag reflexes to move right back down their throats, if you catch my drift?)
what do you want to do, though? do you want to back off? does he eat anything out of the highchair?

PondLife · 26/05/2007 00:08

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Aitch · 26/05/2007 00:15

if you can handle it i'd stick it out, but the bottom line is that you have to be happy and the baby has to be happy...

redbeki · 26/05/2007 20:30

grated food can be a good starter.
i.e.grated apple,cheese.Any soft fruit cut thin or smallish.
It took my dd about one month to get used to eating.Now there's no stop in her at 8 months.
It's the most fantastic way of feeding a baby.They become very independent very quickly.they love the feel,look,texture and taste of food in it's natural state.And get co-ordination very early on too.It's wonderful.I can't promote it enough to people new to it.
Sorry to go on.
Persevere .

PondLife · 26/05/2007 22:12

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Aitch · 26/05/2007 22:25

aaah, but funnily enough my advice, should you decide you want to continue, rather contradicts redbeki's as my dd was rubbish with grated things and thin slices. in fact we pretty much dumped the chip-shaped malarkey after a few weeks and went for big hunks of meat and fruit and broccoli 'trees' etc. so they're all different, it's worth trying a few things. even spoons if the whole thing's stressing you out.

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