Baby Led Solids chatter #5

:o So...following what the BLW book says about baby eating what parents are eating...

I had a gourmet pizza tonight, with chilli flakes sprinkled on it. It was strong, but pretty mild itms. DS wanted some so I gave him a crust to suck on. Five minutes later all hell broke loose - he was red in the face, screaming, rubbing his face. I pulled the bits of crust out of his mouth and we dunked his mouth in water, then gave him some cucumber to suck on. All is well now...but I think we'll be avoiding the chilli for a little while :rofl: Oops.

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:o I think we'll be avoiding the chilli for a little while :rofl: Oops.

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:ROFL: Bless him!!!

I was on the opposite end of the spectrum when I gave DD her first piece of Milky Way. The look of pleasure on her wee face - it made me want to give her the whole thing! :) (I didn't though coz it was MINE!)

Ah yes! I DON'T SHARE CHOCOLATE. Which means I'm now a closet chocolate-eater - only when DS is asleep!

Maybe you need to offer some of that chilli chocolate first. ;) DD once downed some lemonade as if it were water and now won't touch any kind of fizzy drink. Put her off for years so far!

Hehehe, Jennifer, that's funny.

You know, DD LOVES sparkling water too. When we pour ourselves some water, she starts yelling at us because she wants some and DH gave her some of his sparkling one day and she loved it! She's a funny wee thing.

My DD is loving her sippy cup at the moment, can't seem to get enough of it. Still BF'ing heaps so not sure if it's more novelty then thirsty?

She was doing really well with chewing up her food, but for the last week she seems to be just shoving the food in, gagging heaps, then shoving more in on top. It's a noticeable change and DH thinks it's because she's actually more hungry, I don't know? She really gets excited now if I get the high chair ready, or am preparing food in the kitchen, so I know she's making the connection. But the size of the bites and the amounts of food she's putting in her mouth are huge, even if I only give her things one at a time (we tend to hold out the plate and she picks things one at a time). Is it just a stage? There's nothing 'wrong' with it, so to speak, just odd to see her go back to gagging heaps again.

That is a crack up about the chilli! I would have done the same thing because I've read heaps of babies love spicy foods.....hee hee.

Another sippy cup lover at this End but she seems to love the sip part the most and often dribbles it back out.

The gagging thing must be a reflex for so much food in her mouth? So amazing how apt they get for getting the food in.

We are at Grandma's for Christmas and while she is fully supportive of BLS, she has produced this plastic mat for Dd to use as a placemat instead of eating straight off the table. My het is the placemat goes firstly in her mouth and then on the floor. Lol. It's good to be here though, it will give Dd the opportunity to try moe foods than we eat regularly at home. Hope she doesn't develop a taste for expensive lychees!!! ;)

We are going good here still.
Sippy cup is a winner, she loves it, and if i have a drink of water from a normal cup DD has to have some as well lol

She loves Tom yum flavoured noodles heheh ... I just love it when she has finished eating she starts to pick up each piece of leftover food from her highchair and slowly throw each one over the edge while she giggles heheh so messy but ahh to cute to stop her ..

So wondering with chrissy coming up, can they have prawns ? I'm not sure if we should offer her any of not.

We still gag every now and then but not so much anymore , funny thing she gagged on mash potato the other night of all things!
Oh i made risotto the other night she cried coz she wanted more , she scoffed it down

I'm totally offering prawns tomorrow for Christmas Eve dinner, DD loved them a few months ago (at a restaurant.. yes I gave her one of those precious few king prawns that come with the pasta..).
DD loved the gingerbread men I made for her birthday, as well as the spinach and ricotta boreks AND smoked salmon!
She also sucked the chilli off the olives with no fuss at all!
I've started a morning ritual of having cereal for breakfast, love it, coz it's finally a meal that's easy and I don't have to do all kinds of planning. She's been using a spoon too!
it's as if turning 1 turned on her appetite and appreciation for food!

I'd link you to my Facebook Shel, but I'm on Tapatalk - I have a photo of my DS chewing on a prawn the other day. He loved it, but it's raised a few eyebrows from the family :rolleyes:

And I gave DS some mashed banana on a spoon the other day, cause he loves playing with the spoon...only he GAGGED on the banana! So poo to all those people who think BLS makes babies choke or gag! Mashed food is just as likely to trigger the gag reflex too!

I would love to try her on prawns Christmas day, but it is the only allergy in the family, and in the slim chance she might have an allergy or sensitivity too, I don't fancy a rush doc or hospital visit on Christmas day!

hey!
How was Christmas for our little finger food peeps?

DD has been really sick with a bad chesty cold so she's not been able to really eat much. Everything that we've given her has come right back up in a ball of phlegm (sorry, tmi gross I know). Wee darling.

Oh, DD had her first fully formed poo the other day - before she got sick (again sorry TMI!) - so I know that she's getting the good food into her now! YAY!

Anyway, I'm looking for some ideas for dinners. I got 2 really awesome cookbooks for christmas (I'm a total cookbook $lut) so am going to make some things from there. Am just wondering what others have for dinners?

What do you give your little ones?
Thanks
Sue x

We had a lovely Christmas (but bub is over driving in the car!). Christmas Eve she tried a bit of sponge and loved making a mess with that. Christmas Day she loved eating pancakes, mango and dragon fruit for breaky. The family were excited to see her eating the food they had made. I took an extra t shirt and popped that over her 'good' clothes and then a bib on top, and this kept her pretty clean. We went to a mates place Boxing Day and had her highchair in the car which came in handy. (love the Ikea high chair for portability and cleanability). DD also got an Unbelievebowl for christmas that she has been very excited about.

Couple of questions;

Bub has always had at least one poop a day, more when she was little. She has been missing a day or even 2 and is much happier on the days she does go so i think she might be bit blocked up. we have also been out a bit later and she doesn't BF as well when there is too much excitement. I have been giving her cooked apple on her toast as well as vegies often. is there anything else i should be giving her (or not giving her)?

what sort of foods do you take when you go out for snacks? she is not really up to sandwiches yet, and i need some more ideas.

ta

Hey Kate, I take those Vita wheat round crackers out, with some cheese, sticks of watermelon, rockmelon, maybe a yoghurt. I'm also going to try grapes this week and some raisins, she's really going great guns with her chewing.

Not sure about the pooing thing - DD is the same, she really struggled yesterday with her poos but I'm putting that down to her being sick. Maybe try some pears and prunes? Some kiwi fruits too?

xxx

Hi everyone, just thought I would pop in and say hi.. we have recently begun giving dd food at dinner time while we eat because she has been getting very unsettled at that time. she mostly just plays with it and makes a mess, but we've been having alot of fun. we tried a few weeks ago but dd had a rather scary choke so we held off for a bit longer. She is now 6 months and so far she has had a go at banana, strawberry, peach and cauliflower. She no longer gags when she eats so I thing she may be getting the idea that food is for eating.
It's just one food, once a day atm, and we just put it in front of her and she picks it up herself and destroys it. When we are at peoples houses though, I will usually hold it for her to avoid the massive mess and she holds my hands and brings it to her mouth herself. dh and I are pretty healthy eaters.. well we eat alot of veges and fruit so its not hard to give her healthy stuff to begin with. We have had friends down the road tell us while we were at their house giving dd banana that we were not doing it right and its much safer to start with rice cereal as that is the only food that babys wont be alergic to. wasn't sure how to respond, so I changed the conversation instead.
I've been stalking for a while, but now that we have begun, thought it was time to join :)

Kate, it could be that she needs a bit more fluids. Usually enough to drink is the best way to keep these moving well, although of course fruit and veg never hurts either. Have you introduced meat yet? That's an important early food for the iron and zinc.

I take out sandwiches with avo and cheese she pulls them apart but it doesnt matter, bannana, nectarine, avo, cucumber slices, capsicum, cherry tomatos , grapes( she eats the inside spits the skin Sue) Cruskets with hommous,yogurts ..Just depends what we have at the time really

Hope everyone has a lovely christmas

We tried DD with a couple of prawns yesterday which she loved but today she came out in a very nasty ecxsma (sp) rash,she gets it anyway but we have it under control ,so we had to get out the special medicated cream as it was very bad, all clear now ..Wondering if it could have been the prawns this time