Its All So Yummy!

At 6 months we started with baby food jars and recently started to BLW at 6 1/2 months. My little Emily loves it. I want to share how we BLW, because its just so much fun to watch her play with her food, eat and expirement with. I will also be sharing photos of my older daughter Katarina at around the same age. Today we start the full on BLW, because I recently learned that I was doing it partially incorrect. When feeding her mashed potatoes or anything pureed I was feeding her with a spoon. The correct way is to load the spoon and hand it to her so she can self feed. :)

What is BLW? Baby-led weaning (often also referred to as BLW) is a method of gradually weaning a baby from a milk diet onto solid foods. It allows a baby to control his/her solid food intake by self-feeding from the very beginning of the weaning process. Infants are offered a range of foods to provide a balanced diet from around 6 months. They often begin by picking up and licking the food, before progressing to eating. Babies typically begin self feeding around 6 months, although some will reach for food as early as 5 months and some will wait until 7 or 8.

 

Here was todays Breakfast 5/6/12

(Emily will be 7 months tomorrow)

She had Chorizo and Egg with Beans... Its her Favorite!

I will come back and add her lunch and Dinner, but for meanwhile her are some photos of my older daughter around the same age. Hope you enjoy them..

Todays Lunch 5/6/12

For lunch I threw a Bed Pad on the living room floor and let her go at some Chicken Noodle Soup. I think She enjoyed herself.. Chicken, Noodles, Carrots, Celery

Photos of Lunch...

 

I think she really liked the feeling of her food in her toes too.. haha!



Dinner: 5/6/12

So for dinner she did not want to sit with her food.. So I decided Just to sit her down with some Cinomon Apple Toast on the floor. She did good. I took video! Enjoy..