Baby led weaning update.

In an earlier post I explained how we are combining baby led weaning and the spoonfed mush. As we started weaning Penny at 4 months, by giving her baby rice, which she hated unless there was jam in it, and apple puree. Our range of food mush now includes pear, pineapple and apple, plum and apple, damson and apple, carrot and swede, sweet potato, and broccoli and carrot. These have all been super smooth purees.
Now she is a little old we have started in introduce finger foods and less blended food. The blended food we now give her is exactly the same as the food we eat. The makes meals times a lot simpler for us all. So far she has had lasagne,  spag bol, any veg we had, soup, banana and beans.
We had offer her a range of finger food with she can taste and play with. This allows me to eat my food while it is warm rather than feeding her first. So far she has tried toast, spag bol, chips, breadsticks, cheese, yorkshire pudding, biscuits, rusks, carrot, cucumber,  pepper, noodles, broccoli, cauliflower and banana. After she has finished throwing it around she has her puree. I don't think she eats much apart from the cheese, some goes in but comes out again. It is just getting her use to different textures and flavours. We did the same weaning method with James and he eats really well.

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I know we are a little early to starting weaning and the guidelines are not to until 6 months, but we have started and Penny is doing beautifully.
Right from weeks old she would have a little taste of something off my finger, this then progressed to the tiniest amount on a spoon. Now she is having a few spoonfuls while we have out dinner and tea. I think she thought she was missing out because out normally placid daughter turned into a growling monster when we were eating despite being in her blue chair.
So for the past weeks I have peeled, chopped and boiled all the free Autumn fruit I can get my hands on. Froze it in ice cube trays in preparation for the months to come. We have pear, apple, damson, plum and blackberry to try as well as carrot and sweet potato mush.
With James, who started weaning at 4 months due to being very sick after every feed, we did puree until 6 months then had a mixture of baby led weaning and mush. It seem to work and at the moment at 2.5year old he eats very well.
Here is a picture of Penny in her highchair, she looks so tiny. James likes to sit on my knee and help feed her.