I started off with DS wanting to do BLW because it sounded easier but also because I like the ideas behind it of him controlling his food intake and learning to feed himself, bite, chew etc from the start. Anyway, 3 weeks in I find I'm more naturally reaching for purees. It's not because he can't pick up food or eat it, but because I just don't find BLW easier. Have I just missed the point? As I understand it you give your baby what you eat, but my general diet doesn't seem very suitable for him.
Breakfast I usually have cereal (Special K at the moment) - too sugary for babies - followed by granary toast - as I understand it there is too much fibre in granary bread for babies. So I would end up having to do something different for him.
Lunch is pretty much always homemade soup - so he would have to be spoonfed - with a sandwich made from the aforementioned granary bread. Sometimes it's a bagel - I suppose he could have that right, but that's only the odd day?
Dinner - I always eat with DH when DS is in bed, and although it's always homemade it's usually some sort of stewy/casserole/curry/stir fry thing which again doesn't seem very BLW friendly as it requires cutlery even if I did save some for DS for the next day.
So I end up specially steaming some broccoli, cauli, carrots etc. for him and then find I don't want to do that fresh every meal so end up microwaving some frozen mixed veg which has a spooky texture. And that is so not the sort of thing I would eat so it is then more hassle and less nice than the food I would choose for him...
So I'm now finding purees easier - bulk make them in one evening and then can just defrost a couple of cubes from the freezer. I try to follow some sort of BLW principles - load the spoon and then just hand it to him and he does what he wants. Usually gets it in his mouth and eaten 50% of the time (about 90% of the time if it is prunes ), the rest of the time it is played with, thrown on the floor etc. which I don't mind. And then when he shows signs of wanting to stop I just don't load the spoon any more and I don't do any tricking him into eating or shovelling it in his mouth etc.
So I'm struggling with making BLW work for us without it being either extra hassle or having to change what I eat as that then seems to be missing the point.
Any ideas?