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Good day associates! How’s the day going?
So this has been a typical request over proper right here on the family net web page since we combined baby-led weaning with purees for every of our kiddos, and it labored out correctly. As always, converse with you pediatrician to help resolve among the finest feeding approach in your family members. Most pediatricians will counsel introducing steady meals spherical 6 months, when little one can sit up upright on their very personal. Some start somewhat bit earlier, and some wait longer. Do what’s biggest for you, and what your doctor suggests, okay?
So for Liv, I had study fairly a bit about some great benefits of baby-led weaning. Within the occasion you’re newer to the thought much like I was on the time, baby-led weaning (or BLW) entails giving the kid mushy meals that they will keep onto and chew (like a little bit of steamed sweet potato, banana or avocado). They chunk off the appropriate amount. the time interval “weaning” doesn’t indicate that you simply simply’re weaning them off of breastmilk or system; in its place, you’re together with steady meals into the mix.
I bought a toddler led weaning how-to e book, and principally it talked about, “Give you little one mushy meals they’re going to keep, and permit them to chunk it.” Aka it was a waste of $12.
Why I Like Little one-Led Weaning:
-The toddler will get to resolve how rather a lot to eat, and what they should eat, when provided a plate of assorted mushy meals. That’s fully totally different than spoon-feeding, on account of they’ve additional administration over their consuming experience. Whereas they might not *eat* quite a few the meals at first, they’re able to uncover tastes and textures. They might merely keep the meals, or lick it, nevertheless they’re being uncovered to fully totally different tastes whereas enhancing their very good motor experience (choosing up the meals) and oral motor experience (actually chewing, swallowing).
-It’s EASY. Whereas I like making purees, it’s large simple merely to supply a toddler a bland, mushy variation of what you can be consuming for dinner.
Why I Don’t Like Little one-Led Weaning:
-Gagging. Whereas the gag reflex is a defending measure and helps the kid to be taught his or her private limits, it nonetheless scares the sh*t out of me, significantly with P’s reflux-induced choking incidents. Regardless that Liv didn’t have reflux, she undoubtedly gagged as soon as we tried positive solids collectively along with her. I actually really feel like with purees, there isn’t virtually as rather a lot gagging; each they swallow it, or spit it out.
-It’s pretty messy. Whereas infants are good at making a mess, this might take it to the next diploma, significantly with additional liquid-y meals like applesauce or yogurt. Little one-led weaning suggests giving the kid the spoon and help instructing them strategies to eat, nevertheless positive, this suggests applesauce of their hair and throughout the bottom. We’ve been using much more Reliable mopping pads than typical.
How We Blended Little one-Led Weaning with Further Standard Purees:
(please have in mind I am NOT telling you strategies to feed your little one. That is as a lot as you with the advice of your pediatrician. Every family and little one is totally totally different. It’s as a lot as us to make among the finest selections for our distinctive households, infants, and wishes.)
Initially we offer large mushy meals, nevertheless in sizes that wouldn’t alarm me as a choking hazard. With baby-led weaning, they counsel giving a toddler a little bit of banana and letting them chunk off gadgets. P take monumental bites, so that didn’t work initially. She’d end up gagging and spitting it up. So I roughly diced the banana, and it was somewhat bit slippery, nevertheless she made it work. This stuff had been terribly small; nothing {{that a}} swig of water wouldn’t be able to wash down.
Some favorites:
(I separated these into the phases we provided each meals)
Stage 1: Spherical 7-8 months
Scrambled egg yolks (later, the whole egg, scrambled)
Avocado (I might give her the larger gadgets of avocado on account of she took additional low-cost bites)
Sweet potato
Widespread potato
Banana
Steamed zucchini, peeled and diced (as soon as extra, large small gadgets)
Stage 2: So much later, after chewing and swallowing skins had been established
Blueberries, cut back into quarters (later, cut back into halves)
Peeled beans, cut back in half (later, leaving the peel on and chopping them in half, until lastly she was ready for regular beans)
Grapes, peeled and diced (later, cut back into quarters)
Strawberries, diced
Salmon, plain, baked and diced
Mango, diced
Steamed butternut squash, peeled and diced
Steamed carrots, peeled and diced
Apples, peeled, steamed and diced
Steamed peas, full
Ground turkey
Steamed broccoli florets, diced
Stage 3:
Bread gadgets with butter
Rooster
Rice
Pasta
Now we have now always initially provided each kiddo selections on their extreme chair based mostly on what stage they’d been in, after which provided purees in route of the highest of the meal. We use the pure ones from objective, selfmade, or oatmeal pureed with steamed apples or a fruit pouch.
Transition slowly
Feeding our girls continues to be thought-about certainly one of my very favorite points. The snuggles of breastfeeding or a morning bottle, the grunts of satisfaction whereas gulping a handful of berries, or in Liv’s case now, sharing an unlimited bowl of pho. A comforting facet of introducing solids is that it’s not meant to be their sole kind of eating regimen; breastmilk or system does all of that for you! So the steady meals are additional for pleasurable and as a instructing different. Within the occasion that they eat, good, however when not, they’ll be getting breast or bottle later for his or her precise eating regimen.
So, inform me associates: did you do the baby-led weaning issue or persist with purees? What’s your little one’s absolute favorite meals? I actually really feel choose it modifications frequently, nevertheless correct now Liv is totally into bagels with cream cheese, and P goes crazy for avocado.
xoxo
Gina
Further little one meals posts proper right here:
My favorite selfmade purees spherical 1
Favorite selfmade purees spherical 2
Little one recipes 6 months – 1 yr
Preschool snacks