Advice and help

Hi girl I'm a mom of one daughter and whenever I introduced her to solids, I began with small bite sized foods I would crush up or mash/chop up like tiny chicken pieces or mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes 😋 and even carrots (boiled soft though) even scrambled eggs, sliced bananas, cheese too is nice just think of softening the foods we all eat so that way it gives each baby a general flavor to different types of foods while also working with their hands and also don't worry girl I think every new mom goes through the stage of freaking out over whether or not their baby is going to choke even to this day I still sometimes get concerned with my daughter running around with food in her mouth .. 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is a post a little further down in this same group and I found it really interesting and helpful https://www.peanut-app.io/share/4GalBE8vM1b

I used pouches a bit and the melty sticks/fruit clouds etc but breakfasts I used to do toast and sometimes add scrambled egg, crumpets, pancakes or porridge/weetabix. Lunches were really hard for me as LG has CMPA but I done cheese toasties with yoghurt and veg sticks, I tried wraps and then sandwiches a bit later on, or I used the pouches/jars if I was really stuck. Dinner wise was a bit of anything really. Spaghetti bolognese went down a treat, tried beef burgers, roast dinners and they’re the few I remember at that age 🤦‍♀️🤣 but she’s never choked on food. I was told to wait about an hour after a bottle and start with breakfast and get them eating more while decreasing milk intake at breakfast time, then do lunch and then dinners so they’re having 3 full meals and not bottles at that time. Once meals are sorted move on to snacks, most childcare settings will do 2 a day, so a piece of fruit for 1 then a breadstick or rice cake or similar for the other

Download solid starts (don't pay for it). You can look up different foods to see how to safely serve it at each age group

Agree on getting solid starts for some guidance - they also have a great IG. Take a baby first aid course if you can, lots of community centres etc do them for free or reduced cost. The biggest thing to remember is that food and eating is a skill so teach them the basics - big exaggerated chewing, eat together, how to pick up and explore food, touching and playing is absolutely fine. Our early meals were a lot of things on toast, pinwheels, chunky veggie sticks, banana and avocado.

Oh and babies will go through 101 phases with their food, appetites will be up and down etc etc. Stay focused on the fun of it and don’t stress, NHS recommends three meals and snacks from 12 months so there is a bunch of time before needing to worry x