First Bites

Charlie has been so interested in food that we decided to start him on some solids.  I wanted to go about it in a different way than we did with Sarah Graves.  This time we are using a baby led weaning approach that I have read about several places, but found the information on Wholesome Baby Food helpful.  

For starters, the title is misleading in that we are not actively beginning to wean him from milk.  However, the start of solids is in a way the start of the weaning process.  This approach lets the baby lead the way in terms of how interested and how much they desire to eat solid foods.  The focus is more on feeding them actual solids from the start rather than feeding them runny cereal or purees.  

We started with some cut up banana for him to mostly grab in his fist and suck on a little.  

We also put some banana in his mushy for him to suck and chew on.  The mushy is a net that holds the food and lets him suck, but not get any big chunks.  

I'm not sure that he liked the taste a lot, but he certainly enjoyed trying!  He was interested and worked on it for a quite a while trying to get the little pieces to his mouth!

We tried broccoli another night and he seemed to really like it.  He sucked on the floret part of it.  I didn't think he was consuming much, but he was up a lot during the night uncomfortable with gas.  Broccoli may have to wait to show up on his tray again!