Syler's First food!

6 months is such a milestone for babies. They start to really interact on a much higher understanding level. They start to move around and learn how to get from sitting to tummy, back to sitting all on their own. They also get to start on solid foods. A bitter sweet moment in my mind.

With both Zander and Drezden we did a program called Baby Led Weaning(BLW), and loved it. BLW is when you provide the baby with regular foods that have NOT been mashed at all. Things like sliced avocado and banana, steamed carrots, steamed broccoli and steamed apples. Toast in slices, potato slices and more things similar. Then you gradually upgrade to different more difficult to chew foods. The concept is that a baby learns to eat by learning proper bite size and how to actually chew the food instead of suck from a spoon and swallow. 

With Syler we are receiving WIC (women, infants & children) benefits. They provide food checks to ensure that children and mothers receive the proper nutrition. So for him we receive a lot of jarred baby food. So we are doing a mixture of BLW and mashed foods for him. He LOVES babyfood, and has not yet shown much interest in feeding himself real foods. So we will keep offering BLW foods at every meal along with the jarred baby food( Zander was feeding himself at 6 months, Drezden not till 7, every baby is different).

Anyway onto some fun pictures of his first meal, he kept diving for the spoon, it was very very funny, Paul got a video on his phone and I will try to get it uploaded as well.

Enjoy.


Getting ready:

Checking out the spoon:

Steamed carrot:
He was not interested and kept throwing it on the floor

Squash: HE LOVED IT