Baby-Led Weaning

As you know, Miss Tallulah is 5 months and about a week old, and for the past 3 weeks she has been getting increasingly more interested in what I am eating, to the point where having on my lap at mealtimes is getting tricky! She will reach forward and grab food on my plate and put it to her mouth and I end up wrestling bits off her and worrying she will touch something too hot! She is sitting up on her own for about half a minute and loves being in the high chair too, so Max and I felt that why not let her have a bit of her own food to taste!

I absolutely ADORE breastfeeding her and am not ready at all to sto yet, so the food thing is more for fun for the time being! We have been debating, do we mush or do baby-led! Everything about baby-led makes sense and seems to click in my head, so that is the direction we are heading. I worry a lot about doing the wrong thing by Tallulah so I have told myself in my head that I am not going to get too obsessed about the whole thing and I could do a mixture, if she has a spoon and mushy sometimes that is okay tooo!!

So...tonight we gave Tallulah some steamed brocolli florets and some carrot batons! To my shock and surprise she was straight in, picking them up and putting them to her mouth and chewing! I wasn't expecting her to swallow anything but a few bits most definitely went down! I think Max was a little concerned about her choking but we kept a careful eye and she was fine!