....when and how did your LO progress to finger food? Did they at all?? Or did you stick with spoon feeding till they were much older?
DS is nearly 7mo and we have been weaning since 5mo. Mostly homemade purees, alongside the odd Ella's pouch (now stage 2) when out and about. I have been making the purees quite lumpy since he turned 6 months old and do lots of fork mashing too. I also give finger foods alongside a puree once a day (ie a few toast fingers with some scarmbled egg at lunchtime). He gets on well with finger food but gets very little in his mouth and makes an almighty massive mess in our v v small flat with cream carpets, which we are currently trying to sell so I can't have food all over the floor all the time for viewings
Do puree-weaned babies need to 'swap over' to solely eating finger food at some point? Or do people normally continue to spoon feed increasingly lumpy/chopped food until they're old enough to use a spoon themselves? With bits of finger food on the side (ie fruit sticks for pudding)?
Any advice gratefully received. There seems to be lots of advice out there for BLW but not so much information for those of us who deicded to go down the puree route!
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BotBotticelli · 29/06/2013 08:53
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