Weaning 7 month old
I need some advice as a first time mum. We started the weaning journey a couple of weeks ago. When feeding solids we always use a high chair.
So far we have tried carrot puréed with my breastmilk, brocolli finger food, watermelon, baby rice banana porridge, rusk biscuits mixed with my milk and whole to suck on, weetabix with my milk.
I know at this stage it’s not about quantity, more about textures, motions and tastes but she nearly choked on some watermelon earlier even though I gave a safe big chunk.
She doesn’t yet have teeth but I think they’ll be soon!
I don’t want to slow down her weaning journey for fear of her choking!
I have bought avocado to try this week, would you suggest spears or mushed style?
Any other early weaning things to try please let me know.
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She almost choked? Or she gagged? Gagging is scary but an unfortunately required part of things if you're doing whole foods/baby lead weaning.
That is a totally personal choice. Baby lead weaning involves a LOT of gagging as they learn for themselves that they need to chew, tongue control and how to swallow. We picked BLW in our house because there is a strong family history of autism, and autistics struggle with a lot of the fine motor mouth control that BLW teaches, so it was a step toward developing speach we wanted. But I won't lie it can be scary at times.
Purees won't stress you like that, but they are learning a narrower range of skills and I understand you're mostly putting off the gaging until you are introducing whole foods later. When admitedly they might have enough vocab for you to admonish them to chew...
That's totally legit. Some of the textures you already introduced are some of the ones my step daughter struggled with most (porriges and cereal/crackers) she honestly did better with strips of things (avocado, banana, home fries, omlette strips) where she had to gnaw to get the food.
It is un intuitive since if fed with a spoon porrige is no problem but Kalila just kept thinking a handful at a time should go into her mouth... and she struggled with the dryness of cereal or goldfish 🤷♀️
That’s given me a few more ideas of things to try. Thank you
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