Shay is now six months old and interested in what we're doing at the dinner table. So, after some reading and chatting with some other parents, Tyler and I decided to adventure into the world of baby-led-weaning. Weaning being the next stage of eating and not weaning off breast-milk. This means that we aren't going the conventional route and feeding Shay "baby food" or mashed up food. We fed Finlay home-made baby food and found that it was a lot of effort and he had difficulty digesting most of it.
And so, the new adventure with whole pieces of food began.
Some rice cake went over well. He gummed at it and drooled and got some down. The idea is that he is interacting with the food, exploring it, playing with it. There are some new smells, tastes, textures, and maybe he will get something into his belly. All of his actual nutrition still comes from milk.
Finlay is trying new foods too. We are starting to feed him eggs (free-range and organic) and, after months of just trying a little his is now really going for it. Not a vegan anymore!
Yummy rice cake!
He loves a cool peeled carrot on his sore gums.
Especially with hummus!
Finlay loves avocado, "it's my favourite!"
Check out this video of Seamus eating with a spoon for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kWfJtawPrU
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