Loves it!

I'm loving BLW and there's so much info in the book. So far he's had pasta with cheese sauce, honeydew melon, banana, chips, brocolli and today he had some of my cheese panini whilst we were out.

Most of it goes down his front (or round the kitchen) as he doesn't have the ability to swallow proper food yet...it's too early, it'll come with time...like the ability to roll over, sit, stand, walk. But he loves being included...able to copy mummy and daddy and have what we're having. And mummy an daddy love seeing him so curious about real food...working out what stuff tastes like, different textures, how to handle it and ultimately what it's for. And it's so much easier...don't have to buy any baby food jars, don't have to make our own purees, don't have to spoon-feed him whilst my dinner goes cold, don't have him refusing the spoon, no need to work out whether he's full or wants more...he does it himself with food we were cooking anyway and stops when he's done with it.

Sometimes he does get a bit frustrated...like if he can't quite do whatever he wants to do with a slippery slice of melon...or drops a bit of pasta whilst he was in the middle of gumming...or when the brocolli he was studying and tasting starts coming to bits (he looked very confused "huh...my toys don't do that..waahh mummy I think I broke it!"). But this is all stuff he needs to learn or get better at with practice at some point in his life...so why not give him the opportunity now. There's no reason not to give him control of food (what he eats, how much, how fast, etc) right from the start.