how old was your son when you first gave him food? One of my twins looks in amazement at food and am wondering if it's time
I think Rach would just tell me to give them ice cream
At 6 months old with my first born, he was eating a mixture of homemade purées and baby jars (all organic...obvs #firstchild). I worshipped at the alter of Annabel Karmel and was frighteningly focussed on making sure he got the right balance of food.
At 6 months old with my third child, he was eating strips of chicken, steak, whole florets of broccoli, peas, pasta, pizza (
)- baby-led weaning had come into fashion and I was simultaneously delighted/amazed to learn that in fact babies don’t need purées at all, and super pissed off that I had ‘suffered’ through the purée hard work of my first two kids! Baby led weaning ALL THE WAY. Did you know that babies have a really far forward gag reflex
(no jokes ladies....you smutty fuckers..I see you)? They have it naturally so that if they tackle something their throat isn’t ready for, it kicks it right back out. Once they start eyeing up your food....that’s your signal! Give em some long slices of toast to suck on, a whole banana......there are a million You Tube videos out there these days...honestly....any Mum who is making a Roast into a purée has a screw loose. Third child loved a roast potato (whole), Yorkshire puds, peas, carrots, chicken- low salt gravy was the only change I had to make for him.
My only caveat would be to watch some You Tube vids and/or buy a book or summat.....there’s obvs still common sense to be applied
[do not feed them your Saturday night Vindaloo...mainly because of the resulting nappies], oh and also be prepared for people from slightly older generations to stare and potentially judge- my Mum would watch my son in absolute horror as he happily chowed down on his roast with the rest of us
She would beg me to mash it up for him!
P.S interestingly, 10 years on, first child and last child both now have similar food tastes and appetites so I really wish I could tell every first time Mum that really you have a whole
bleeping lifetime to feed your kids, and what you do in that first year is highly unlikely to affect them for the rest of their life.
P.P.S I may have photos of third son enjoying MacDonalds pancakes (#easyweaning) and I am absolutely not sorry about that.