Starting solids advice

I've been doing a similar thing as DS is a little bit fussy and sometimes I find the finger food seems to go down better than the pureed food. I started with baby rice, then I tried the veges like kumara, pumpkin and potato and then pear, banana, apple. He wasn't keen on much till he had banana and then was a bit interested in pear and apple so even though I started with the veges he still liked the fruit best. So often what I'll do is try a pureed version and if he's not interested I give it to him to try himself. First off I used one of those feeders for pear and apple and they were a hit that way. For the types of foods, I still followed the watties chart and have been introducing those foods, at the specified times so those doing BLW probably wouldn't count what I'm doing as BLW at all

purees - pumpkin, carrot, pear, apple, broccoli are all god for this. Frozen peas/corn/carrots are really easy to steam up and puree if you're short on time.

Finger food - steamed veges are good but some are a bit slippery to pick up. ds started having toast with marmite from about 6 1/2 months, he loves it! Pretty much anything steamed/softened and cut into easy-to-grasp pieces is pretty good - there are some websites/forums on BLW if you do a search, which have some advice on what to start with.

ds got quite constipated when he started solids at 4 1/2 months and he still is, be aware that banana can be very binding, which is a shame because it's so easy to prepare!

I wanted to do BLW but ds was so ready for solids at 4 1/2 months and it was a bit too soon for finger food, I found that I then got into the habit of purees so it took me a while to break out of it - now he loves his finger food much more than being spoon fed and has a great pincer grasp with things like peas etc. (getting it into his mouth is the main challenge!). He tried boiled egg for the first time today which is also a great finger food, but Plunket says not to give in until after 7 months.


re: purees - if you go to the supermarket and check out the baby food it can give you soem good ideas of what foods/combinations you can make

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