Weaning advice
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I started my first weaning today with baby oats. Two spoon a day and then I will increase. As regards to allergy it is advised to start one food a time and to give same food for atleast two days to determine if LO develops allergy. I am a first time mum myself so I am learning too. After oats I will try for purée vegetables like broccoli, carrot avocado but separately. As for essentials I have bought food maker mixer with steamer from Amazon. And baby suction bowls. I bought munchkin spoons as it changes colour to guide with temperature. Hope it helps
If you’re starting on purées I recommend the Ella’s kitchen purple book. This is what I used. At the first it’s just first tastes of one vegetable that you work your way through this is normally done at lunchtime. He will continue on his normal amount of bottles and will naturally drop them one by one but probably not till he’s on 2 full meals a day will this happen. They don’t really gag on purées tbh that’s more BLW which you should introduce also x
@Tenzin thank you!
@Elena I’ll get that thank you! I’ll do BLW eventually and introduce ginger foods but feel more confident and happy starting with the purée x
@Megan exactly what I did! Purées for a month and then I made them lumpier and done finger foods and after 3 months went full BLW but I started early at 4.5 months x
@Elena this is literally my plan! I was going to start my little one at that age because he’s showing loads of interest in food but he’s just turned 5 months and are wanting to start within free next week or 2! I’ve got one of those dummies where you can put food in for them to chew on which I’ll use before finger food x
and with bottles, they should remain babies main food source until they turn 1 so the amount of milk they have shouldn’t really change until then x