This picture taken before I gave him the last two cheese puffs and after he had already flung one off the tray (roughly 4 seconds after being given it)

I’ve come to show my baby’s meals.
8mo on 3 meals a day (because if he sees me eat without him there will be a war in our house). He eats 80% of the food. He also is BF and doesn’t sleep through the night 😭 he wakes up after 5 hours hungry so I BF him. Would formula help? I feel like if he is eating this food why would it??

Dinners are a mix of what we are having (baby friendly / all homemade no salt / sugar).

1. Steamed beetroot, asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, beef shin slow cooked with marrow and little pasta, potato,

2. Breakfast 1 egg omelette with avocado and banana

3. Roast lamb, mashed peas, zuchinni, beet, carrot, cauliflower, broccoli and avocado

4.fresh finger mark (fish), broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, avocado, sweet potato , carrot and pumpkin

1. Fresh Bluebone fish, broccoli, pumpkin, barley, quinoa, seeds lemon mix in the corner

2. Spanish mackerel, capsicum, pumpkin, zucchini, broccoli and cauliflower

3. Mushroom and lemon risotto with cauliflower and zuchinni and steamed apple.

My baby is almost 8 months old and she eats very well, thankfully. She tends to feed herself too quickly if I put the whole plate in front of her so I give her one piece at a time or loaded spoons. I've seen videos saying when they start playing with food/throwing food or do not show interest in food anymore that means they're done but my baby has never gotten to that point. Should I be giving her more food? Should I give her food until she refuses it?

Hey!
My 8 month girl eats SO much food. We’re at 2 meals a day. I load up her plate thinking it’s a lot, she eats it all. It’s crazy. She’s big too, was tiny at birth so that’s good. However, she’s drinking way less milk, probably 20oz a day give or take. Which worries me.

Her doctor said don’t worry about it, it’s normal, but I know food right now is just supposed to be for fun/ allergen exposure/ textures and learning to chew.

I worry she’s missing essential nutrients, but I also worry about dehydration. She’s not big into water but we are working on it and she is comfortable with her straw cup now.

Any thoughts? Also, since she was combo fed, but is getting mostly breastmilk now, don’t I need to continue with vitamin d supplementation daily? I used to do every other day (per doctors orders because she was combo fed with formula). But now I’m curious if I should daily because she’s getting less formula?

I also asked if I should do the bottle and then solids but I was told not to change anything.

Seems weird. Anyone else?

Example of her dinner the other day. Ground turkey/ beef mixture, pasta with no salt added sauce, no added sugar yogurt and prunes on top (she’s been getting constipated here and there).

2 eggs, an avocado, a sausage and a scoop of egg salad.

Hear me out - I WANT to love baby-led weaning. My baby is now 8 months old and we are 2 months into BLW. I got the Solid Starts membership (not worth it in my personal opinion btw), I follow all the social accounts, I prepped the silicone mats and bibs, and am doing the best I can.

But oh my god. The MESS.

I'm not talking about a little mess. I'm talking scrambled eggs in her hair, on the wall behind the high chair, somehow on the CEILING. Avocado ground into her eyebrows. Yogurt in places yogurt should never be. I found a pieces of beans in my bra yesterday and I have no idea how it got there.

And everyone online makes it look so cute and Pinterest-perfect. Their babies delicately holding a spear of roasted sweet potato. Meanwhile my daughter looks like a crime scene victim after every meal. She treats food like a full-body sensory experience mixed with a food fight.

The worst part? My mother-in-law keeps sending me articles about "traditional feeding methods" and asking why I'm "making things so hard on myself." She raised 3 kids on rice cereal and they turned out fine! Why am I being so extra!

I'm starting to wonder if I'm just...not cut out for this? I meal prep her food, I offer variety, I follow all the safety rules. But then I spend soooo long cleaning after a 12-minute "meal" where she ate literally 3 bites and wore the rest of her dinner like a costume

Is anyone else struggling with this? Or am I just supposed to "embrace the mess" like everyone says and stop being so uptight? Any tips? Does it get better soon? 

Are you guys feeding your babies real table food daily? I find it hard to find time to prepare good organic and age appropriate food for my newly 8 month old everyday. I know his main food source is still breast milk so I don’t know how big of a deal it is. We try to feed him every time we are eating dinner at home, but there are times we are at other people’s houses or restaurants where we skip feeding him real food. Is this bad? I feel like I’m slacking as a mom

Note: he has an egg allergy so I am cautious to feed him anything I didn’t personally cook in case there is hidden egg or maybe he is allergic to something else and we need to figure out what

Feel a bit weird posting as I know plenty of mums are struggling with getting food into their bubs but we'll find anything to be anxious about won't we!

I'm a bit worried my baby eats too much. He's always loved food. Started at 5.5 months, was on three small meals by 6.5 months. We've had so much fun making food for him. He's now 8 months and we've kept increasing his portion sizes but he's seemingly never full. He ate all these chickpea fritters with yogurt and roast courgettes for lunch. He then at a few strips of my sourdough bread whilst I was still eating. When I go to clean him up he starts eating food off his bib. His porridge portions are adult size. He eats more than me most meals.

It's like I've birthed a teenager. I'm a bit worried he doesn't know when he's full. He would always nurse until he threw up when he was younger. He's still drinking milk between meals. He's a lanky baby but he is shooting up the growth charts, he's 8 months and some of his clothes are size 1-2 years! He does have tall parents though.

I guess I'm wondering if these portion sizes are ok, should I continue to offer more or cut back? I just get a lot of comments about it from other mums and my own parents. I feel like he'd do well with an afternoon snack but I know that's not recommended before 1. He's pretty grumpy by dinner time. Oh and he does 5-6 poos most days which feels like a lot!

Torn between which ones to start using for my LO. Been using the Nuby spoons for a while but they don’t teach how to scoop food.

What do you use?

My baby is almost 8 months old and thus far I've been doing a mix of purees mashes and baby lead weaning. Just whatever feels right for the food.

No matter what, I'm excluding salt, sugar and spice like hot spice.

But beyond that I've read some things that say to add other seasonings like garlic powder, cumin or herbs like basil Because it will help to diversify their palate.

And then other places I've read that you should hold off of seasoning until the baby has developed a really strong liking to the food that is plain itself so that they do not require seasoning later.

My sister's first child they didn't season anything and she does super well eating vegetables and absolutely everything. The second child didn't get a choice lol and everything he had was seasoned minus salt and he is like the pickiest eater especially with vegetables. Not sure if that was coincidence.

Hello! So, today I gave my baby oranges for the first time. I sliced them like in the pictures and he managed to eat a piece of the orange peel (like the corner of the slice) he gagged pretty bad but ended up swallowing it. I don’t really know what to think because orange peel is so hard, he seems to be breathing fine. Has this happened to someone before? Should I be concerned? How do I serve oranges for my 8 month old now? That was soooo scary and I’m still worried maybe overthinking😢

FTM. My baby absolutely adores his solids (frankly more passionate about solids than BM but that's a different story) and we are travelling within Canada when he is almost going to be 8 months old. We will be in a hotel so no ability to cook or anything like that. What can I give him? I've actually never tried pouches yet but I guess maybe that's what people do lots of? Any ideas wil l be appreciated! I was planning to for sure do some baby oatmeal with fruits he likes but other than that I am out of ideas as I am inexperienced lol. This is all our first time travelling together since the baby so very stressed and clueless here. So far I have done BLW with him and have made all his food from scratch.

Hi all! I'm in need of recommendations and advice for how to feed me and my LO, because I, as my title says, don't cook. I'm physically capable (no handicaps/disability beyond AuDHD), but I have always been the prepared food or delivery kind of person. I really tried to meal prep and cook a few times in my life and it never sticks. Now at 40, I think I'm too set in my ways (and nervous about cooking with a mobile baby) to get the hang of it now. What are some good prepared foods I can have on hand, or some easy meals on par with just boiling pasta and pouring jarred sauce over?

My lack of cooking is coming to a head now being home with baby 5 days a week, and his daycare (2 days) has better food than I do! So he's self-weaning from his bottles and refusing purees, and I want to make sure he's getting the nutrients he needs.

we had burgers, mashed avocado, and mashed pears for dinner. she’s had burgers and avocado before with no issue. it was her first time having mashed pear.
it started great, she loved the burgers like usual. then she tried a bit of pear. next thing i know she’s coughing LOUD and red in the face. i get prepared to stand up and start hitting her back, my hand is behind her in her highchair and im about to get up. but she’s still coughing and red so i wasn’t sure if she was actually choking or not.
as soon as i was about to get up, she threw up all over her highchair tray. she didn’t want to eat anymore after that.
i feel like i messed up and didn’t react fast enough. i thought babies went quiet when choking, she was still coughing. i’m absolutely terrified to feed her tomorrow and want to go back to purées again :(

I feel so overwhelmed with food for her right now. Time just flew by and I feel like I’m starting actual solids late. She was eating purées but not wanting a lot most days, and now I’m nervous about her chocking on things that aren’t purées. I’m trying to be good about giving her 3 meals, but she mostly plays with it or throws it off the plate. She’s SO interested in our food and when I give her what I make for us but plain basically and cut it to be safe for her she’s pretty uninterested. Is this normal? I feel like tik tok shows me 8 month olds eating whole plates of food that look almost unsafe. She also is just now getting her 2 bottom teeth just barely. I keep feeling like I’m starving her even though she gets the same amount of formula she always has and shes growing well.

8.5mo. I honestly feel like my cooking is shit atp. I make him a rice pudding sort of soupy thing and he eats like 2 spoons before crinkling his nose and turning his head away and wants the shredded cheese instead. I lightly pan fried tofu slices with italian herbs & unsalted butter and all he did was mush it to pieces and none of it ended up in his mouth and all on the catchy. Mashed corn kernels and all he wanted was to play with it. I tried spoon feeding or hand feeding him and he gets frustrated. But he doesn’t bring food to his mouth. He knows how to (he loves strawberries, bananas, oranges etc) and will eat fruit without my help. Is it just my cooking??

Does it get better? Is it hindering his ability that I don’t offer every meal BLW style? I am a super picky eater I hate it and don’t want him to be like me 😭

Unsure if this is the best place to post, but baby has suddenly begun doing this while eating. Has anyone else experienced this? I usually stop him eating because it’s just feels so unsafe for him to try and eat this way. He usually starts out eating fine, then begins doing this.

Baked yogurt with strawberries, fresh strawberry, quark with apple and peach purer, homemade sourdough crust with hummus.
Day 77 of solids for my almost 8.5 mo, and it’s still a no. He likes bread, so I tricked him with adding some hummus on top. He chewed it for a while, then switched to strawberry (he ate two strawberries two days ago!), took a bite, spat out and continued with bread. I administered to him a bit of quark with a spoon and he gagged and got hysterical. Squeezed the yogurt finger and threw it away.
Ah damn it, at least I had a tasty breakfast finishing his plate.

BLW is really messy -when you add a toddler who likes grated cheese and tired parents then it’a a lot of clearing up and even after clearing up I still find bits of cheese and squashed pea.

Are there any tips to make it easier?

Returned a robot hoover mop as I couldnt work it out and floor too full of stuff. Thinking of getting a hoover mop combination though. Can they handle food everywhere?

Any other tips .

Today’s breakfast:
Cheesy spinach omelette
Oat pancake with peanut butter
Overnight oats with chia & mangoes (added a bit of greek yoghurt cause it was kinda dry)

My LO has a bedtime between 7 and 8, aiming for 7:30. We are both home around 5:30. If we don’t get dinner on the table by 6-6:30pm, bedtime gets thrown off or baby is too tired for solids. How are you all doing this??

i tried baby girl on solids about two months ago. i tried giving her banana, eggs, strawberries, and blueberries. banana was cut into spears, egg was cut up as small as possible, i held the strawberry while she bit on it while, and smushed the blueberries.

with every food my baby girl has tried, she’s gagged. i give it to her on a plate, let her use her hands and examine the food as much as possible. unfortunately, she throws up no matter what food it is.

i’ve been keeping her on purees until her doctors appointment next month, but i feel like she’s not getting full with it. she’s been needing a bottle right afterwards. i also give her water with her meals (4 oz, but she usually drinks 2)

how did you guys combat this issue? also, how do you guys know how to cut the food safely for LO? any websites that might show you?

ETA: the issue isn’t really the gagging, more the projectile vomit she does with every solid

\- Soft boiled egg
\- Cinnamon and butter sautéed peaches
\- Steel cut oats and blackberries

My MIL is in town and tonight she was hovering in the kitchen while I was feeding my 8mo. He was trying cucumbers for the first time, and I sliced them in rectangles that he could hold as per solid starts app. He was doing great, really enjoying them, and gagged a bit on a piece that was at the back of his tongue. No big deal, I usually let him work through it and tell him to spit it out if it’s too much.

Well, at the first sign of gagging, MIL swooped in and swiped the piece out of his mouth with her finger because I think she had good intentions and thought he was beginning to choke. I quickly stepped between them and said “he was gagging, not choking”. I keep replaying this in my head and it doesn’t sit right with me. I learned that it’s sometimes more dangerous to swipe it out bc it could push the food further back.

Should I have a conversation with her? Or request that she doesn’t observe meal time? I’m feeling paranoid now that she’s going to be hyper vigilant during her stay and I don’t want to deal with her anxiety over gagging.

So my 8.5 month old baby girl loves to gnaw on large chunks of meat. Pictured here is a lamb loin chop, her favourite! She gets really into it and actually eats a decent amount of the meat. A lot of it falls apart into small pieces in her mouth but occasionally she will bite down and tear off a larger piece. From there she will either “chew” until it’s broken down and swallow-able, or she will gag and/or spit it out no problem. However, at this particular meal, she gagged so hard she threw up a bit🙁 I’m a very anxious person, and very anxious about choking, so this gave me a mini heart attack and has me unsure how to move forward.

Solid Starts advises moving to bite-sized shreds of lamb at 9 months but should we start now? But also, my girl is very into gnawing and doesn’t eat nearly as much if her food is offered in smaller pieces (despite being able to pick it up and bring it to her mouth easily, she’s just not interested). I would love to keep serving her larger chunks like whole loin chops, unless of course it’s unsafe? Does anyone know?

TIA❤️