Can you help with weaning routine?

[GoosetheCat]

My DS is 6 months next week, and I'm thoroughly confused about how to go about introducing food and starting the whole weaning process. I've had so much different advice that my head spins when I think about it!

Could you tell me about your LO's first weaning routine, and what foods you first introduced them too?

You can start weaning with single vegetables and fruits – try blended or mashed parsnip, broccoli, potato, butternut, sweet potato, carrot, apple or pear.
Just start with one to two teaspoons after a milk feed at lunchtime.
Your baby is also more likely to try solids after a feed because when babies are really hungry, they just want the breastmilk or formula that they know satisfies their hunger. They’ll still have room to try new foods after they’ve had a feed of breastmilk or formula.
For the first month (or two weeks at least), just offer solids once a day and continue feeding as often as before. At about 7mo, add solids as his appetite increases, a few mouthfuls at a time, after his usual feed until he shows signs of fullness; i.e. turning his head, closing his mouth, batting at the spoon, spitting the food out, etc. (trying to feed past this point is overfeeding). Most babies will balance their milk intake with their solid food intake well if you feed in this way.
He can quickly go on to minced foods and then chopped foods.Babies need a variety of food textures to learn how to chew, and chewing helps with speech development.
All you need to do is to offer foods. Don’t worry if he’s not interested or takes very small amounts. Your only true responsibility is what you offer and when you offer it, not whether or not he eats it. That has to be up to him. If you’re not sure whether he is getting the right amount of milk once he starts solids, his behaviour will tell you. For example, if he has been eating plenty of solids and isn’t finishing or is refusing his milk, he might be ready for less frequent but larger milk feeds each day. If he isn’t interested in solids, he might be too full from milk feeds. This means it might be time to reduce milk feeds.