Help for a FTM trying BLW

Yellow_Daisy

Hi I normally post on SAIF, but others have told me that many of you have done BLW.  We started out with purees and DS hated being fed so we thought we would try BLW and it seems to be going well, but I feel a little lost on how to proceed at this point and would love some advice from those that have BTDT.

If you did BLW can you give me some food ideas for DS? He has an unknown food allergy so no combo foods/spices yet and no dairy, eggs, soy, nuts or anything that falls into the highly allergic category like strawberries. We've given him whole avocado, whole bananas, diced yams and butternut squash. He's digging feeding himself and chows down. I'm thinking that I will introduce steamed broccoli trees tonight. Has anyone bought frozen peas and diced carrots and just steamed those for their little ones? I need some quick things that I can give him after daycare in the hour we have for dinner and bath before bedtime.

Also how long does it take them to get the idea of swallowing? DS shovels it all into his mouth, but then just stares at me like what now. He really doesn't get the idea at all, his daycare provider said the same thing. Does it just click one day? He'll be 7 months next week.

Thanks so much!

mommy0411

I cut apples slices into thin strips and my DS loves picking us and eating them! I also do the same with pears!

Yellow_Daisy

mommy0411:

I cut apples slices into thin strips and my DS loves picking us and eating them! I also do the same with pears!

Do you steam them to soften them up or just raw?  I've been trying to figure out the best way to introduce apples and just worried they would be too hard raw.

tokenhoser

My baby doesn't mind apple raw, but I tend to steam sticks a bit so I can keep the leftovers in the fridge and have them not go brown.

Banana, mango, rice, pasta, strips of roast beef and pork, steamed carrot sticks, steamed broccoli, steamed snow peas, blueberries, plain fried ground beef, shreddies, goldfish crackers, puffs, puffed wheat, cheerios, quinoa, steamed spinach

It probably will just click one day. My LO ate little bits for weeks before he really ate much, and it's still hit and miss. 

ETA: I'd buy baby carrots and sugar snap peas and steam those for daycare, rather than the little diced carrots and peas.

mommy0411

I generally serve them raw with our any skin, but my son is older and has teeth. You should be able to give your DS a ripe pear without having to steam it since they are so soft!