Baby led weaning

I'm not doing it either :) Will move onto finger foods next month, but to start we are purees x

Same. Do what makes you comfortable x

I didn’t get on with baby led with my first child and don’t plan to with my son. It really stressed me out. I soon introduced herbs and spices to what she was having and only worked on allergens and chunky stuff when my husband was around too. I also found it meant I could batch and freeze so much which made my life a lot easier. I gave my daughter loads of variety and we eat together as a family at least 3 times a week and I think this has made her happy to eat pretty much anything :) Do what you’re comfortable with ☺️

It’s when I’m home on my own with her that I’m more worried. When my partners back from work I may try some finger foods but I’m glad I’m not the only one who isn’t doing it! Thank you all :)

I won’t be doing baby led weaning either. Will start with purées and make my way to a mixture. Do what’s best for you

I’m not doing it either. I am too scared she will choke 😭

I'm not, just puree here!

I'm not doing baby led weaning. I started in purees last week. The only thing that is baby led for me is what my little girl likes to eat. I try to get more purees that she likes to eat so she can get used to eating from a spoon

We started finger food after a month of puree because she started at 5 months (GP approved at 4 but waited). Then at 6 months started with melty finger food snacks like melty puffs and baby melty wafers now I do both. Breakfast: either greek yoghurt with mashed blueberries and Raspberries, spoonful of one then the other, she doesn't like it mixed together or porridge then a banana she can hold and nom on or scrambled egg and a bit of buttered toast. Lunch: always a puree with a finger food so yesterday she had sweet potato falafel puree her first taste of spice with a few spoonfuls of hummus and I gave her a Cucumber to munch on. Currently we don't do full dinners it's all too much at the moment 😅 and do the snacks: 1 melty puff, 1 wafer then another puff then wafer. All meals washed down by water from an open flow sippy cup. I suggest an online baby CPR class as knowing how to help your baby will reduce your anxiety. Sorry really long and rambly but hope any of that helped.

We’re not doing baby led weaning either

@Danielle thank you for your reply!! Really helped! I will look into CPR class xx

I'm going to try a mix but I know what you mean I'm worried about it a bit. She has had a banana wafer which she was fine with. I've only done puree so far but only started this week. Look at solid starts and click on food it will tell you how to cut it according to age when you are ready (you don't need to pay for membership to access that) also Ella's kitchen website is good however you're feeding if you haven't looked already

One thing you could try is to give purees but give your baby a spoon with some on for them to try feeding themselves. It is a middle ground and is technically baby led weaning so may help if you are anxious. It doesn't have to all be chunky finger found for BLW. Our little one was hopeless with a spoon for about two weeks but is now mostly shoveling food in her mouth and not her nose/ears 🤣 you will just need two spoons, one for your baby to use and one for you to load with food and swap in once the first spoon has no food on.

@Danielle hi 👋🏻 Can I ask what your little ones milk intake is like and how much it has dropped since you’ve introduced the foods?

@Samantha It has deffo dropped. She hasn't had a night feed since 2 months old so we were on 5 180ml bottles every 3 hours throughout the day before foods. We are now on 4 210Ml every 4 hours and she takes between 150-210 each bottle. As long as they get between 500-600ml from their milk it's all good any more and also great but below 500 you have to start fortifying and adding vitamins because it's not enough. She stays above 500 and usually takes 600 or more but she doesn't drain them or care beyond satisfying the hunger knowing she's getting food too. We are teaching her signs for food, milk, more, all done and break to help her communicate and that's also helped her let us know if she just wants a break from drinking milk or she's done because she's sooooo slow now after starting food. Had to move the feeds to 4 hours or I wouldn't be able to fit everything in and changed to X flow teat as she was getting bored with the no 2 mam flow.

@Samantha again, sorry I rambled and there were things you didn't ask but I'm a neurodivergent over-sharer.

I’m the same! I’m currently pureeing broccoli ready for when he’s 6 months in 3 days!

@Danielle hay my LO is turning 6m next week I've just read what you put with bottles and food can you say what sort of time in the day you give your LO bottles and food I'm struggling to fit foods in between bottles and naps at the moment mine just has some puree around lunch if I get the time between everything else

I’m doing purées until I’m confident in her ability to move food around her mouth and swallowing.

I do one after another so ●9 am bottle ● Food when she's done with the bottle ●Then water. ●Change then either nap or play. From milk to after nappy changed doing it all in 1 go can take half an hour to an hour and a half. Play and sleep for the rest then start all over in 4 hours.

So times we do ●9am bottle, food, water ●1pm Bottle, food, water ●6pm bottle, food water ●9pm bottle, bed. Works 7-7 or 8-8 if you want that.

I’m not doing it either so dw!! Xx

I could’ve written this post. It’s been the one thing I’ve dreaded about this journey so far. We’ve been doing purees, porridge, rusk, and melty puffs. I can handle all these fine. The minute I try with something else I am a bag of nerves. She gags pretty much as soon as something goes on her tongue which is reassuring in a way, but completely anxiety inducing. I’ve forced myself to try a couple of finger foods but she just gags and I can’t deal. Going to try again next month when she is 7 months and just stick to mashed food now x

@Marissa it’s so scary isn’t it! I’m going to do the same as you, purée for first month & then will slowly introduce finger foods! X

I wont be doing it. We’re starting with purées and slowly building texture x

I'm not doing it x