Baby led weaning

The latest weaning recommendations are to wait until the baby is around six months old before you start them solid food. This is great because you can feed them pretty much anything at that age.

You can even go a step further and do something called Baby Led Weaning. This is where you put the food in front of them and just let them crack on. No need for mush - no purees to make, freeze and warm up - no letting your dinner get cold while you shovel it into their little mouths. Sounds great doesn't it!

Wee Man shoves everything he can in his gob so we though it would be simple - put food in his hand and he'd insert it in his mouth. But for some reason he doesn't put food in his mouth - he looks at me and opens his mouth like a little bird. If I pop a bit of food in there he munches away happily, but just looks at the food in his hand.

After a few days we had some success with a cucumber stick today - yay!