If you didn’t do BLW, what do meals for your one year old (15/16 months) look like?

[GIow]

In terms of -

How are you preparing foods / to what extent are you chopping / squashing things?

How competent (if at all) is your infant in using a spoon?

Are there any foods you won’t or can’t serve from a safety perspective still?

Thank you! Just want to sense check how we’re doing.

Oh I’m sorry I don’t live my life following the “advice” from the first account that pops up on Instagram.

My DC are too old for BLW to have been a thing (tho i kind of did it by accident when DS2 was about 9mo). So it was purees at first then gradual use (by them) of a spoon and then a fork.

By 15mo they were definitely all eating what we were eating. They could use a spoon to eat a yogurt or mashed potato, otherwise tended to use fingers if possible (for veg, fruit, meat). I guess I would cut up, say a chicken breast into fingers. I mean they didn't sit down to a fillet steak with a serrated knife or pick up a whole apple and eat it, not quite, but yes, I certainly was not pureeing or mushing anything up by this stage.

It’s not about teeth either (tho by 15mo most babies will have eight teeth, so fine to chew) as they can use their gums.

As there’s no actual definition of BLW I don’t think you can blame me for believing the general consensus. Don’t shoot the messenger!

Thanks all. Reason for asking is that we gave him some shredded chicken breast earlier but he was pushing the chicken out of his mouth after chewing it for a while. So I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for his age/stage!

Did traditional weaning with the first, BLW with the second. By that age both were just eating normal food.

At that age DS was eating the same as us using cutlery. I obviously would help him if we were having something difficult to cut but for soft food he could manage.

We did a mix, but at 15 months they all usually eat pretty much the same as each other don’t they? At nursery they come off the weaning program at 12 months and on to the regular meals.

Pushing it out because he’s a toddler and didn’t want it in his mouth, or pushing it out because he couldn’t swallow it? If it’s the latter I’d get him checked out as that’s not normal at 15 months.

Same for DD2 - she could completely strip a corn on the cob at 7m with no teeth lol. @Playingvideogames its different for different babies, DD2 has been having 3 meals a day fed by herself since not long after we started BLW. Despite planning on BLW with DD1, she needed spoon feeding. It’s wild to say you don’t believe in something just because your baby didn’t do it!

I did a mixture of puree and finger foods when I first started weaning. At age one my daughter was eating normal family meals like spag bol etc. We cut her food into bite size pieces but I can't remember when she started to use her cutlery more independently.

I never did BLW either and at that age my eldest was just having what we were having but cut up smaller. Never any issues using cutlery either and was able to feed himself with a spoon quite early on.