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    Posted: 10 January 2010 at 5:12pm
I've been reading websites on Baby Led Weaning a bit, and I'd like to give it a go, but I'm a bit confused . I guess I just don't really have faith in the 'just give them what you're eating' line.
Like tonight we're having nachos. I'm not going to give DS chilly beans, cheese, sour cream and corn chips, am I
But on another night we might have meat & vege, in which case do I really just put them on his high-chair tray and hope for the best?
And I take it salty stuff like corned silverside is out. And still waiting till 7mths+ for dairy food?
None of this one food at a time biz?

Are there any BLW mums out there who would like to share their first foods stories?
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you dont have to make dinner the first meal they have. lunch was the meal we started with and eden had veges, avocado, fruit... same as puree really but not pureed. one of the first things she really enjoyed tho was sushi! if you have veges with your dinner like brocolli then give him a pice of that... stuff that is easy to hold is best to start with and brocolli is perfect cause it has almost its own handle.

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We started by letting DS try any suitable food that we were eating. If we were are having something unsuitable then I make him a bits and pieces dinner. like chicken chips, cucumber, tomato, cheese, fruit.

He loves pasta, bread and rice as they are easy to swallow. And he also loved juicy fruit at the start. (still does). Also steamed brocolli and carrotts. Potato is always good (boiled, roasted, chips) as well as kumera and pumpkin.

It may be a bit scary at first while he is learning to chew and swallow but they learn quickly. DS now often doesn't even bother to chew things and just swallows them whole. .
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When we started, I would roast a few vege sticks and give them to her over a few days. Orange and golden kumara was good, as was parsnip. She would have steamed broccoli - I would chop a whole head of broccoli, steam it and then freeze it free-flow. I would stick it in a glass of water to defrost then she could eat it whole. We also did toast sandwiches - she loved asparagus, avocado, thin smear of marmite, lite cream cheese etc etc etc. She also loved fresh fruit, cut into wedges.

It seems like it can be complicated in the beginning, she wasn't REALLY eating what we were having a lot of the time, but it was still real food, IYKWIM.

Now she does have everything we have (although maybe not nacho chips - she'd have a cruskit instead!) and will put away a decent amount and variety of food.
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When we were starting out we did a lot of purees on toast soldiers, steamed veg, stewed fruits and fritters. I cannot recommend fritters enough, you can load them with veg, they freeze really well and travel well too. Now she eats everything we do and it is so easy.

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Ohh, I had forgotten about fritters!
We have just started BLW and Ben often has carrot sticks at dinner as I always make those. Some stuff I am not sure about like we had mac n cheese the other night and I avoided that. He often has mouse traps if I don't fancy giving him what we are having.
Jack always has a slightly different lunch to me anyway so it is easy enough to make Ben something different, like today since he was awake when we had lunch I gave him 1/2 banana (although he always seems to break it ), 1/2 apricot and a strawberry and he had great fun.

I am having trouble going slowly with it, I want to try him on everything yet I am still cautious about not following Plunkets guidelines about the ages to introduce certain foods. I just have to remind myself to go slowly.

I am loving BLW though. We were at Bro and SILs for tea tonight and I watched Bro trying to spoon feed my niece who didn't really want to know. Glad I am not wasting time trying to force feed a baby!
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We started off with slices of pear and avocado. Now itr's summer there is lots of nice soft fruit you can try: nectarines, melon, strawberry etc.
Mika has always LOVED broccoli, but she didn't read the BLW book about the easy handle, cause she always holds it by the flower and then sucks the inside out of the stem .
Pasta, steamed carrots, asparagus.
Mika likes celery sticks and her favorite: black spanish olives (I cut them in half), luckily these are the not so salty ones.
She also really likes rice wafers.

Like the others said, he probably won't be really eating much for quite a while, but then suddenly you notice they're actually swallowing -hurray!-.
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I think I will have too google baby lead weaning. I had awful troubles with Ethan. He would eat nothing but Watties Pumpkin and potatoes puree until he was about 18 months old and we have only just got him to eat a larger variety of fruit and vege. I so DO NOT want that happening with the girls.
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There are a couple of other OB Threads on BLW, the first 2 are really good and have lots of info and links to the BLW book website and a UK based BLW forum
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We are just starting out today. I hadnt even heard about BLW till the other day when I was trying to find out more info on getting bubs to enjoy his solids. Millen showed all the signs he was ready to get going on solids at 5 months but after a couple of weeks trying I gave up as he just wouldnt open his mouth and it felt wrong just shovelling it in. So I waited till he was almost 6 months and tried again and same problem. He loves his rusks and eating them himself which made me think that BLW might be for him.

How has everyone gone with the gagging and any choking. I am just a bit scared he might get something stuck and choke. Today I gave him a couple of sticks of cucumber while we were having lunch and he managed to bite a chunk of the top of one - luckily he spat it out as if he had swallowed it I think it would have got stuck. Hubby saw this and is severely doubting this new approach for this reason. Any reassurances that it won't be a major problem?
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We haven't had any choking yet. Have only just started but he has had a huge variety of food. He eats whatever we are eating (as long as its not too salty or sugary). He has bitten off chunks of food heaps of times and always manages to get them out if he doesn't want them or chew them if he does. He has gagged a few times but not often. And he never seems phased by the gagging, just carries on playing and smiling as if it never happened. No choking at all.

I LOVE BLW! So easy - and SO much fun! I think it's probably more exciting for us than it is for Jude. Makes sense for us

ETA: I really recommend borrowing or buying the book "Baby-led Weaning" By Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett if you are very worried. It has a section on choking/gagging and explains how the gag response in a baby is further towards the front of the tongue than in an adult and how the gagging movement pushes food away from the airway if it is too big to swallow. This website is also a good resource.

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We never had any choking either - plenty of gagging at the start though! The gagging looks scary, and sounds AWFUL, but is just baby getting rid of food they can't swallow.

I also agree with getting the book - and if your DH could read it, that would help! My DH started out thinking BLW was just another crackpot idea I got off the internet, but now he's a total convert, even trying to 'convert' other parents to it!
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I always decide what meals he's sharing with us based on how much cleaning up I want to do afterwards Some days I'm just not in the mood for cleaning spag bol off the ground (and him) so he gets bits and pieces. Most meals he shares with me now though because his coordination with food is so much better. For example he used to struggle with pasta but is now great at picking up raviolli or spaghetti.

I also started with breakfast and lunch, because by the time dinner time rolled around he was too tired to be bothered much. We have toast, muffins, or weetbix for breakfast (he loves dry weetbix). I tried bread sticks with hummus dips for lunch, all sorts of fruit, homemade pizza with pita bread and yummy stuff on top, sandwhiches (which get pulled apart to start with)...

Actually I found it so fun to walk around the supermarket buying stuff for him to try, foods I would never eat myself, but let him try. He eats just about anything and some things he loves one day and hates the next. It's just an experiment.

I remember the first day when I was hunting for what happened to the bit of toast he had and then realising he had eaten it all!

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