Weening Help

[Thefirsttimemum]

Hello I am a first time mum, my son has just turned 6 months. We have banna porridge which he loves in the mornings between feeds, and he has had some purees however I really want to start him on 'proper foods'. We have tried mash potato mixed with his milk, he wasn't a massive fan. We have also tried a small amount of carrot. I am interested on baby lead weening but there's so much out there I don't know what is right what's best ?
Thank you !

You don't have to pick one or the other, you can do purées and BLW. There's a whole instagram thing which seems to make people feel like you have to chose one way only!
The NHS start guide is really good if you google it, and SR Nutrition on instagram is actually sensible and very good
Apart from that I think you probably could work through all the single veggies and fruits, once your happy with those you could do the allergens carefully (a tiny bit of peanut butter for example for 2 or 3 days) and then your away, that's everything you need for baby to be eating meals

Speak to your health visitor for more specific advice but weaning at this stage is just about getting your baby used to different tastes and textures rather than them consuming a particular number of calories. I just gave my baby bits of whatever I was eating, within reason. Some strips of toast and butter/peanut butter, some lightly steamed carrot sticks, cubes of cheese, slices of apple, mashed potato, scrambled eggs etc.It takes multiple tries for a baby to decide whether they like something or so don’t write something off because they’ve tried it once.

This is a useful website: www.nhs.uk/start-for-life/baby/weaning/

Agree that you don't have to do all finger food if you don't want too. Traditional weaning would include a mix of mashed or puréed food and finger foods at 6 months.

This guide from the Caroline Walker Trust has some good suggestions of first foods to try and finger foods to offer.

Basically though at 6 months they can eat pretty much anything as long as you avoid these foods.

Of you do want to do BLW, or just want to share more meals with your LO then this is a good cookbook to try abs your local library should have a copy