First BLW food? Your first experience?

[lanaross]

We are starting BLW "officially" on Saturday!!! Will make a big deal out of it, set up her new chair, both me and daddy will be eating with her. I am thinking should be around lunch time. What should I give my little BIG girl to start Was thinking maybe steamed veggies? And need something else? Also should I start with just feeding her once a day for the first week or so? I bought a book on baby led weaning but seems like I won't have time to finish it before we start.

 

[sahara]

hehe I am starting this weekend too, except I gave him some tuna last night as my daughter had some. I just blobbed a bit in his highchair and let him deal with it lol

 

[sahara]

today I am going to try some broccoli and cucumber I think.

I am just going to start him with bits like this for the time being. We eat too late cos of OH work, so in a few weeks it be lunch together i think

 

[CountingDown]

I started Olivia with things like steamed carrot sticks, cucumber, apple sticks etc x

 

[lanaross]

I started her with veggies today and it didn't go as well comparing to her reaction when she had food from my hands. She took a chunk of broccolli, kind of almost attacked it, gagged and then started crying. I tried tw later on (sweet potatoes) and she fed herself with preloaded spoon and liked it much more. Maybe I should wait a week or two more or persevere and just keep giving food to her?

 

[Nel]

How's it going now?

It can be an anticlimax when you've been so excited about starting BLW. My LO did nothing much for a week or so - I was expecting it to be like the videos you see on YouTube of little babies sticking whole broccolli florets in their mouths and chewing - but I just kept putting him in the highchair when I had lunch and giving him bits to play with. He caught on eventually.