Simon ate his first solids today. We waited for him to be six months old (minus three days!) as recommended these days, and have decided to go down the Baby-led Weaning route (see guidelines here or here). So when we had lunch today, we gave Simon some chunks of steamed courgette. Simon has been interested in food for a while, so we weren’t surprised that he got very excited about this. The idea of BLW is that the baby, being 6 months old, is at an age to be able to pick food up and put it in his mouth himself. This is fine in theory, but steamed courgette is pretty slippery, and although Simon did his best, he did need help getting a chunk off his tray. He got a pretty good system going of wedging it in one elbow, holding it with the other hand, and gnawing on it enthusiastically. Not a lot went into him, but the idea is discovery of tastes and textures, rather than stuffing calories into him (you’d be hard-pressed to find many in courgette, anyway!). After 10 or 15 minutes he started getting a bit fretful, so we took him out of his highchair and let him play on his mat. Breastfeeding will continue on demand as usual.
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Good luck! Weaning is fun. Alexander is still doing a mixture of purees and baby-led: but he enjoys the baby led far more. He's been dipping bread etc into his purees anyway, so we're going more and more down this way. (We took him to a pizza restaurant this week and he ate garlic bread and cucumber while we had a pizza.
Oh, but can I highly recommend that you use paper liners in your nappies for a while... early stage weaning is the worst time for cloth nappies!
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