Weaning

Charlotte Stirling Reed's book is excellent. There's a clear plan for the first.. I think...four weeks. Loads of recipes and advice. We started with broccoli yesterday, avocado today, courgette, aubergine, potato the following days.

Just first tastes initially, puree and BLW, building up to chunkier textures over a few weeks. Xx

I started with non allergens and just pureed one beg a day, then increased it to 2 per day. I usually do lunch and dinner as I have more time and I'm doing bottles instead of boob. I'll offer 3 quarters of her feed, then do food, then rest of milk.

I follow the baby led weaning book by Charlotte Stirling reed too, it takes away the mental load and super easy x

I just started getting her taste things here and there a few weeks ago.

First taste: licked cucumber, sucked mango…lol. She was just so interested in food that I decided to give her a taste.

First actual food: mango, smashed by hand

Second food: avocado, smashed by hand

Third food: roasted Japanese sweet potato, smashed by hand

Fourth food: brisket, smashed by hand

She later had a tiny bit of mashed cauliflower rice.

This past Sunday I made her first actual meal. I made okra soup for her (boiled smoked fish, okra, onion, locust beans, some cooked snapper, and a little red palm Oil. Plus a little bell pepper, carrot, celery and a few spices for taste). She loved it and ate it with Amala (dried yam flour swallow).

Today we ventured into sardines (in water, no salt added) and I let her try some blackberries.

I’ve been checking the Solid starts website just in case, but for the most part, I want her to get to know textures we enjoy as well as start introducing iron rich foods.

I’ve started introducing a different vegetable for the first two weeks, she’ll only have a spoonful or two each day but it’s brilliant for her to try it. I’d recommend buying Ella’s kitchen weaning book off vinted for cheap. X