well, we're on day three of solid foods. yesterday afternoon a poopy diaper revealed that the day before, bebe marie had indeed managed to ingest some carrot. i learned from all of my reading on baby led weaning that it can often take babies a whole bunch of tries before any food actually makes it into their bellies, so we were impressed.
although the general recommendation is to introduce one food at a time and only give that food for several days, to make sure the baby doesn't have a reaction to it, i am being surprisingly (if you know me and know how worried, neurotic, obsessive, choose your adjective, i am) cavalier about it. part of the point of BLW is to feed your baby whatever you yourself are eating, and we eat different things every day. so, on saturday bebe had carrot because that was what was in our stew. yesterday she had some avocado with me at lunch. this afternoon, while on a play date, i was eating an apple and i gave it to her for a while. she held it between her hands, licked it, and somehow managed to gum off some little bits. and tonight, she had some broccoli from our dinner.
i had expected that introducing bebe to solid foods would be a bittersweet experience for me. from the moment of her conception she has needed nothing but me to grow and thrive, and although i hope to nurse her for a long time, the beginning of the transition to solid foods nonetheless marks another separation, another phase of her becoming her own person. i have found, however, that so far there is no "bitter" in this transition for me. i'm not sure if i'd feel the same way if we were doing the traditional rice cereal and purees, but watching her learn to eat food all on her own is an amazing experience. i am so proud of her i feel like i could burst. she is such a big girl, and she's working so hard to figure it all out.
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although the general recommendation is to introduce one food at a time and only give that food for several days, to make sure the baby doesn't have a reaction to it, i am being surprisingly (if you know me and know how worried, neurotic, obsessive, choose your adjective, i am) cavalier about it. part of the point of BLW is to feed your baby whatever you yourself are eating, and we eat different things every day. so, on saturday bebe had carrot because that was what was in our stew. yesterday she had some avocado with me at lunch. this afternoon, while on a play date, i was eating an apple and i gave it to her for a while. she held it between her hands, licked it, and somehow managed to gum off some little bits. and tonight, she had some broccoli from our dinner.
i had expected that introducing bebe to solid foods would be a bittersweet experience for me. from the moment of her conception she has needed nothing but me to grow and thrive, and although i hope to nurse her for a long time, the beginning of the transition to solid foods nonetheless marks another separation, another phase of her becoming her own person. i have found, however, that so far there is no "bitter" in this transition for me. i'm not sure if i'd feel the same way if we were doing the traditional rice cereal and purees, but watching her learn to eat food all on her own is an amazing experience. i am so proud of her i feel like i could burst. she is such a big girl, and she's working so hard to figure it all out.
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I love that you are doing this- I am actually thinking of trying this now since it would actually be much easier (if I can get over the fear of gagging/chocking) to give him what we are all eating rather than mixing the stupid rice cereal and expensive baby food! Now- getting daycare to do it might be a different story altogether.
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