Hi All, I've been a bit MIA, some idiot thought it was a good idea to do 2 uni courses through summer semester, oh yeah that idiot would be me I hope everyone had a lovely christmas and welcomed in the new year.

Persephone, I had to giggle at the chilli thing, it reminded me the night we gave DD2 curried sausages, she started off chowing it down, then half way through stopped and grabbed her water bottle lightning fast, had a huge drink and straight back into it, except she kept stopping to vigorously rub her mouth and face, while still attempting to shovel more in . DD1 used to love sweet chilly philli too.

Kate, bf bubs wil find it very hard to get truly constipated, bm is a natural laxative. Its not uncommon for them to go up to 10 days, although this lack of frequency should reduce as they get older and solids becomes the main source of diet. I'd say she is adjusting to the new sensation, they are quite used to very soft mushy stools and I found with both mine they weren't too fond of it when it got harder, they would get a little irritable and grunt and stop to do them. To begin with though I found DD2 couldn't have banana everyday as it upset her, she can now though.

Tal, in fact rice cereal causes problems for a lot of babies, too much iron in it and upset tummies. We gave anything to begin with except high allergy foods, like egg, nuts, strawberry, seafood. But why 9 months we have introduced all these except nuts (although I know she has stolen some of her sisters penut butter sandwich). We just took steamed vege when we went out to begin with. Now its anything, sandwiches, fruit, cheese anything I can quickly shove in the bag.

Humanbean, we don't peel, mainly because I want her to learn without having to do it. I just start her off a bit so she can get her teeth into it. She does great now, eats apple skin and all, nectarines, peaches etc she will squish away at until she gets past the skin.

Starangelk, tuna, salmon and egg are fav's here. I have to cook the scrambled egg when she isnt looking cause if she knows its coming she throws a fit until she gets it, which takes forever to cool down.

AFM, things are going great here. Her straw bottle is a fav, she loves crawling around with the straw and bottle hanging out of her mouth. DF gave her a tupperware sippy cup the other day, which went really well drinking wise, until she realised when you turn it upside down water spills out on the floor Her favourite atm is rice, anything rice related is demolished.

Seen as everyone was discussing what they give their LO's, this is what we normally have. I don't worry atm about separating breakfast lunch and dinner, she tends to have whatever whenever. She usually haves porridge with cut up fruit, yoghurt with muesli mixed in, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, avocado or vegemite toast, any fruit we have on offer, any vege or salad too, salmon, tuna, spag bog, sausage, coucous, risotto, rice crackers, mini salad wraps. Sometimes she is way hungry before 5 and before I have dinner ready, so I just chuck fresh salad stuff like corn, peas, tomato, grated cheese, mushroom, grated carrot on her highchair and she eats away while I cook dinner. She also loves sultanas, doesn't really eat them properly cause they come out the other end looking like grapes