BLW novice...... Advice please

[pigleychez]

My DD has just had her first taste of food.. Tried cooked Carrot sticks but I think they are too slippery for her so tried a Rice cake which she loved. Sucked away on it with little bits breaking off and moving around her mouth.
She then gags and is sick. Thankfully it didnt faze her and Proudly I kept my cool!

Anyway...

Does she sit and eat at every meal? I dont usually have breakfast.

What about Dinner as we usually eat around 6... is this too late if she goes to bed at 8?

What other foods can I offer her?

The way it works in our house is that I give dd breakfast and lunch when I have it and dinner at 5pm while I am pottering in kitchen. (She goes to bed at 7).

For the first few weeks she eat loads but did enjoy exploring what was put in front of her and started to have favourites (weetabix ). I started with chip shaped veggies such as butternut squash, sweet potato, corgette- anything really that went soft when cooked. I have now got braver and started to give stuff that resembles a meal as you or I would recognise it! Such as tuna pasta or veggie omlette for dinner and sandwiches for lunch.

I think if you skip breakfast and don't fancy having dinner as early as she will want it then just make yourself a drink and sit with her. Its good that they see you eat too but I don't think it has to be at every meal.

I offered dd something 3 times a day but she isn't always that fussed. Don't be in a rush to get to three solid meals a day.. the way my dd has developed in a short month it looks like that will develop naturally over time.

We got a table cloth to go under her chair. By keeping this clean we could rescue any large bits for her to try and launch to eat again.

HTH

Sorry!

For the first few weeks she didn't eat loads

I started BLW with DS at 24 weeks, actually he decided as he took toast out of my hand and gummed it to death!!

I am a bit hit and miss with breakfast although I am going back to work in 2 weeks so will have to be a bit more organised.

I have never cooked special food for him, just laid off chilli's etc. He eats at the same time as us in the evening (6.30 - 6.45) and then we start bath and bed at 8. It works for us and once I go back to work it will have to be that late.

So far (he is now 30 weeks) he has had christmas dinner and trifle (there is a piccie of that on my profile page) curry, chilli, roast dinners, sweet and sour, black bean sauce, home made burgers, pasta and sauce, jacket potato.

Not much goes in but there has now been some evidence of it coming out the other end.

Like Darkmere I find that having some wipeclean table cloth under the highchair means bits can be reeaten (?)

Enjoy it