BLW mommas

miniray · September 2012

With baby led weaning do you still only give LO stage 1 foods first? Or just let them eat whatever you are eating even if it's not stage 1? X will be 6 months in about a week and I want to start sitting him at the table during dinner time and offering him food that we are eating and see how things go. We tried purees and he's NOT a fan (unless it's mashed bananas). I'm terried of choking so i'm not sure if i'll go through with BLW but I think i'll give it a try.

JFH2010 · September 2012

I give him what we're having, but adapted for him. The only foods I avoid for him are honey and excessive salt, but I cut shapes differently. For example, recently we had an eggplant and chickpea dish. I cut eggplant fingers for him and mashed up his chickpeas, but it was cooked in the same sauce. I make oatmeal fingers with grated apple and cinnamon when we're having bowls of oatmeal. Basically I just turn our dish into a finger food. If we're having something that he really can't handle yet, like soup, I'll steam vegetable sticks for him and dip them in our dish.

SteelCity44 · September 2012

He gets whatever we eat. So when we had pork, I cut him a 2-3" finger of my pork and a chunk of stuffing. When we had wings, I pulled off all the skin and fat and gave him a wing. Veggies all have handles for him. Banana was a 3" piece w/ half of the peel removed.

Banana and cucumber

Trying 2 wings at once.

miniray · September 2012

Ok that makes sense. I think I will give it a try soon. I'll be watching him like a hawk though!! Thanks for posting pics Steel, makes it easier to understand. And now I want wings!

JFH2010 · September 2012

Gimme that homemade pita bread!!

And some veggies

miniray · September 2012

JFH2010:
Gimme that homemade pita bread!!

And some veggies

LMAO the pita bread pic!!!

babybug11 · September 2012

This is so interesting to me! ***Runs off to do research***

thadsrad · September 2012

These pictures are really helpful to me! I'm going to introduce table food in a few weeks, but I'm not very visual and am having a hard time figuring out how to prepare his food.

JFH2010 · September 2012

thadsrad:
These pictures are really helpful to me! I'm going to introduce table food in a few weeks, but I'm not very visual and am having a hard time figuring out how to prepare his food.

I really recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1615190309. Sorry it's not clicky, I'm on my phone. It talks about how to prepare different foods, gives basic recipes, etc. It also gives good information on BLW itself. From what I read, the cookbook gives the same info as the main book, but it's more succinct and it includes recipes.

Also, because DoJo taught me to be an AW and because I love BLW, a little broccoli for your viewing pleasure:

thadsrad · September 2012

JFH2010:
thadsrad:
These pictures are really helpful to me! I'm going to introduce table food in a few weeks, but I'm not very visual and am having a hard time figuring out how to prepare his food.

I really recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1615190309. Sorry it's not clicky, I'm on my phone. It talks about how to prepare different foods, gives basic recipes, etc. It also gives good information on BLW itself. From what I read, the cookbook gives the same info as the main book, but it's more succinct and it includes recipes.

Also, because DoJo taught me to be an AW and because I love BLW, a little broccoli for your viewing pleasure:

Adorable! I have read through that book and I "get" how it works, but seeing pictures is just so useful. Makes me feel less crazy handing the kid a steamed piece I veggie!

huahualove · September 2012

These pictures are all just adorable!

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