calling BLWers: what was the first thing you gave your dc, and at what age? oh, and how did it go?

[Tutter]

ta very much like

my dd had roasted butternut squash at about 24 weeks. She grabbed it in one fist and hurled herself at it, gnawing away in a v comical fashion!

Umm a bit before six months, spag bol, it was messy but she loved it - I think there is a profile pic of her eating it on Aitch's blog.

a baton of carrot, boiled until very soft
he was 6 months and a week
he held it in his fist, gnawed away at it, and made disgusted faces - but ate most of it whilst I took lots of photos

Not strictly food but... DD ate an empty sachet of sugar at 5 months.

It came out the other end all scrunched up but you could still read all the words on the packet

Just before 6 months. she shared some banana with me, seemed to go down well.

(now she doesn't really like banana )

Steamed broccoli, 23 weeks and loved it. He's on youtube somewhere under BLW Noah 23 weeks or something like that.

baby rice at 5 months, then avocado at 6 months

steamed carrot sticks at 29 weeks. He happily picked them up & munched although didn't swallow on that occasion...but we gave him the same thing the next day & he swallowed some this time.

tutter, i can't believe your ds2 is getting old enough...

she nicked a peach. then apricot. there are pics on the blog, inevitably. then steamed carrot and broccoli and rice cakes and, er, pizza crusts...

6 months, can't remember what it was, pretty sure it was curry or chilli, definately somthing spicy, but it was grabbed off my plate and stuffed in. We then let her grab whatever she wanted. Was all very easy that first time

are you the same wrigglejiggle of corn cob fame? that's still my favourite photo on the blog (with whomoved's daughter a close second, natch. )

my DS is not on the blog

actually, we don't really deserve to be on it. He wants to eat far more food than I have the time to sit around watching him, so we do a mixture of me getting stuff into his mouth and him doing it (he YELLS if I don't give it to him fast enough)

I have never seen such a dustbin. He would eat forever I think

A stolen bit of melon...

heheheh mrsjc, that sounds hilarious... these are all the accommodations that we make in order to deal with the rest of the family. i don't imagine your dd takes very long to eat up, so whatever works. if you have any particularly lovely shots send them to my email and i'll put them onto the new site. aith at babyledweaning dot com.

for lunch he has just eaten:
some pita bread
some cheese sandwich (kindly donated by DD
half an apple
most of a peach

for dinner he'll have a big old bowl of steamed veg, possibly with pasta and cheese, probably followed by yoghurt/banana. This is why I help him out - if we waited round for him to get all that into his gob we'd do little else

and he is still breastfeeding 3/4 times a day (and 2-3 times in the night, grrr)

He's ENORMOUS - long rather than particularly chubby.

oh and I sent oyu some photos just now but your babyledweaning.com address failed...my email bounced back

did it? hmmmm. will FB you.

Ah yes Aitch, thats me. You wouldn't believe the obscure and unusual foods dd will now eat if we're having them. And you should hear her doting GPs proudly telling everyone about how dd 'never did that puree nonsense' and lecturing all new parents on the wonders of BLW! Watch out for corn on the cob part two in 4 and a half months!

Ok, we've been at it a week now...
DS is 25 weeks, so far we've done plums, pear, potato, cucumber and rice cakes. He's loving it