Breakfast today was quite predictable...toast with butter and strawberry jam...BUT...there was also the exciting addition of strawberry yogurt (Rachel's organic kids yogurt).
Sam's first experience of yogurt was very enjoyable...and resulted in the most mess I have ever seen (apart from when Chris eats spaghetti). There was yogurty-gloop all over the table, the chair, floor, clothes, hair and up his nose...yummmm. I had to load the spoon and then hand it over for him to put in his mouth/lap/on the floor and he got quite excited when he saw the spoon coming towards him - so cute! Here's a video showing Sam enjoying his yogurt and then being a bit confused after dropping his spoon!
In the afternoon we went to Megan and Max's 4th and 1st birthday party...Sam had a whale of a time playing with all their toys and watching the older children play. He also had his first taste of party food - pizza, banana cake, cucumber and spinach leaf (not traditional party food but I think Chris felt bad for giving him 'unhealthy' stuff!).
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Intro to Sammy led weaning...
This is the story of Baby Sam and his journey into the wonderful world of food...
...up until introducing finger foods Sammy was exclusively breast fed (very proud of myself for this). At five and a half months old he became increasingly nosy about what hubby Chris and I were doing...and eating.
We decided to follow the 'baby led weaning' method; for those of you who've not heard of this it is basically a method of weaning your baby from 6 months (the WHO recommended age to start weaning) using finger foods and allowing the baby to explore foods at their own pace.
The baby experiments and learns by picking up the food, squidging it about and eventually swallowing some!
The theory is that the baby will not eat the food until they are developmentally ready to; i.e. they have lost the tongue-thrust reflex, they can control their hands and fingers enough to pick up the food and get it into their mouths, and they have the ability to gum and swallow it!
That's the theory - here's what happens in reality...
...up until introducing finger foods Sammy was exclusively breast fed (very proud of myself for this). At five and a half months old he became increasingly nosy about what hubby Chris and I were doing...and eating.
We decided to follow the 'baby led weaning' method; for those of you who've not heard of this it is basically a method of weaning your baby from 6 months (the WHO recommended age to start weaning) using finger foods and allowing the baby to explore foods at their own pace.
The baby experiments and learns by picking up the food, squidging it about and eventually swallowing some!
The theory is that the baby will not eat the food until they are developmentally ready to; i.e. they have lost the tongue-thrust reflex, they can control their hands and fingers enough to pick up the food and get it into their mouths, and they have the ability to gum and swallow it!
That's the theory - here's what happens in reality...
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