Anyone want to talk baby food?

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Purées or this baby led weaning stuff.

What should I do? How much? I can't remember this crap. What did you do?

Disclaimer - Yes, I will ask her pedi.

[Deleted]

No.

LOL.

[ginap]

We did purees. My H was a nervous nelly about the Baby Led Weaning thing though I really wanted to try it. I made all of her purees with my steamer and food processor.

[iamgrace]

How old? I stared with purées. Avocado was Henry's first food. I wanted to love bay led weaning, but it gave me anxiety. Lol.

I kind of did a combo.

[looseseal]

I did BLW with my first, and will with this one too. I chose it because there is a history of obesity and diabetes in my family and I'm hopeful that the method will cause him to keep his natural appetite control and not be an overeater. Also, I'm too lazy to spoon feed a baby. I want to eat for myself (see above, family history of obesity!).

I started when he was 6 months, and his first foods were steamed broccoli, avocado, and maybe banana. Now I can't remember, haha. He really didn't ingest much until he was 9 to 10 months old, which is perfectly normal with BLW. So, we would put a bit on his highchair and let him play while we ate. Win-win. When I started I remember being unsure how to know when to introduce him to new types of food, but it just became apparent that he was ready.


ETA:  Yeah, we started with supper and added breakfast and lunch at like month long intervals. 

[daisybuchannan]

I did purees for about a month. I did a blog post about how I made them (basically steamed and processed organic fruits and veggies).

Once he was about 7 months, I started giving things with more texture (smashed black bean for example). I also use herbs and seasonings, but no salt.

Now at 9 months, he really can eat almost everything we eat. Tonight he had cod for the first time! I let him feed himself small pieces of food like chicken and broccoli, so it's not like I'm letting him gnaw on a huge dinner roll.

BLW is an interesting concept, but I think there are so many "they throw the food around and eat nothing" stories that turned me off to it. I spoon fed first (and still do for things like yogurt and rice), but let him feed himself everything he can.

[sarahswim]

I got a lot of tips & recipes from this website.  My kid is 3.5, but I still refer friends to this site because it was so helpful to me.  We started when he was about 6 months, I think.  

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I dunno, we started around 4,4.5 months with rice cereal and avocado. I made my own food, which was easy. WE Didn't do much cereal until 6 months b/c they didn't like it but when we did it was store bought oatmeal.

Making your own puree is really easy but feeding toddlers is way easier lol. I did like being able to control consistency and flavors. The boys eat curry!

[pugz]

DD had no interest in feeding herself til about 11 months, so BLW didn't work for us. We did pouches as I am too lazy to make my own food even though I mostly SAH. Happy Family/Ellas/Sprout/Plum Organics are the brands we used. Get the boon screw on spoon! Makes feeding the pouches easy. DD won't feed herself from the pouch. She makes us do all the work, lol.

Avoid Gerber baby food, there is a lawsuit going on regarding chemicals/lead found in their food. Bullshit.

[pugz]

oh and Target puts the pouches 10% off regularly, usually like twice a month. Then use your Target card for an extra 5% off. And go to the FB pages of the brands for coupons. I usually paid about $1 a pouch. BRU also did sales on pouches but I fucking hate shopping there.

[lilybug]

I did a combo, I guess. Things that were super soft like banana, sweet potato, avocado, etc, I gave them in chunks. Things like green beans or broccoli went through the manual grinder.

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I'll ditto avoid Gerber. They also have a lot of sodium.

[pugz]

gerber can kiss my ass. We fed gerber the first month when we were introducing different foods and I found out about their shadyness after. I'm still pissed obviously although I'm sure it did no harm to my baby. Just pissed that a name with so much clout is so shady.

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Jul 10, 2013 17:14:19 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

No.

LOL.

I totally was going to write - except miso.

Lol.

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Jul 10, 2013 17:17:41 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

How old? I stared with purées. Avocado was Henry's first food. I wanted to love bay led weaning, but it gave me anxiety. Lol.

I kind of did a combo.

Ill starts around 6 months. Right?

[iamgrace]

Jul 10, 2013 18:09:29 GMT -5 @lazerus24 said:

Jul 10, 2013 17:17:41 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

How old? I stared with purées. Avocado was Henry's first food. I wanted to love bay led weaning, but it gave me anxiety. Lol.

I kind of did a combo.

Ill starts around 6 months. Right?

Yep. 

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I remember making ds's. I can just steam the veggies and mix it with breast milk if I remember correctly.

I think I'll start in the next couple I weeks.

Do y'all use baby oatmeal or regular oatmeal?

[game blouses]

We did purees from 6-9 months. He gagged on anything more solid than a puree, so we did those and baby oatmeal (mixed with breast milk). Now he eats table food like a champ.

[pugz]

We skipped cereal. Rice cereal is bad news due to arsenic levels. My kid was FF so that filled her iron quota

[speckledfrog]

We did BLW and I really liked it. I didn't follow a book or do it exactly this way or that. A lot of it was just what I felt was best. I think many people do a mix of both. Do what you want!

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Jul 10, 2013 17:57:01 GMT -5 pugz said:

gerber can kiss my ass. We fed gerber the first month when we were introducing different foods and I found out about their shadyness after. I'm still pissed obviously although I'm sure it did no harm to my baby. Just pissed that a name with so much clout is so shady.

Wow. That's awful.