This is Going to be Messy
We gave Kian his first meal today... banana, pear, cheese and Weetabix. It was cute but we can see that after the 3rd or 4th time the 'cute' mess is no longer going to be cute anymore. Oh well, he will hopefully soon learn to get the food into his mouth.
We have decided to do Baby Led Weaning - basically you skip all the puree stuff and jump straight to real foods with him feeding himself. You offer a variety of foods, you don't force them to eat anything, and the baby is supposed to eat what they want (they are supposed to instinctively choose the right foods that they need). The pros are not having to make special meals (he eats what we eat or at least tries to!), helps with dexterity faster, they learn about family meals right from the start and it supposed to have all kinds of long term healthy eating benefits. The cons are that it is very messy and until he gets more of the food into his mouth there is a bit of food waste - Sarah refuses to eat gummy banana and cheese. Don't know if we buy into the whole baby chooses the right stuff but we do like the idea of not having to make special food for Kian.
So Kian now sits at the head of our table in his new highchair. We got one which is made to not have a tray so that the Kian sits up at the table with us, we liked this idea but without a ledge like a tray, a lot of food ended up on the floor.
posted by Doug and Sarah @ 1:00 AM
3 Comments:
Yup, the mess gets boring quickly...we went with a combo approach. Parents shovel food off of their plates into the mouth until child insists on doing it themselves...Mieka eats everything we do and more and more of it she does herself.
As a Mom who is still making two different meals each dinner-time: go for it!
Just... you're up on your baby choking first aid, right?
Go for it! I mushed whatever we were eating for the first bit, but it is amazing what they can do with a few teeth and their gums! I recommend a dog for ease of clean-up!
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