Hi,

The thing with babyled solids is that, really, as humans have done from the down of time, we just offer them a bit of what we are having. No drama, no stress. At 6mnths your baby is ready to move onto eating just what the rest of the family eats at a fairly rapid rate. As a *nod* to our recent baby feeding culture, we tend to suggest starting solids one at a time so that if any allergies occur we can easily identify them. But really, this is only likely in a small number of cases - usually where there is a history of food allergies. Babies can and should start meat very early in the piece - soon after they are 6mnths. The key to successful babyled solids is that eating is a social interaction. It's fun. It's about children sitting with adults, eating, conversing, learning from each other. Babyled solids never says "though shalt not eat off a spoon" Some foods work much better with a spoon - but foods you can pick up in your fingers are fun too - and you feel so grown up when you can do it yourself. But mum and dad, brothers and sisters are there to be a cheer squad, a support when you can't quite grasp that pesky little bit of food. Let's make food fun again!