Over the last few months, regular readers will have been following our weaning story. With Gemma and Jacob we tended to follow the ‘traditional’ weaning approach – a mix of spoon fed purees and finger foods. Max has been a much more baby led approach. We noticed at an early age that he liked to sit at the table when we ate, he liked to explore food with his hands, and he liked to copy us, trying to hold a spoon and fork as soon as he gained control of his hands. Because of this, we followed his lead, and let him choose what to eat and when. It has resulted in some very odd combinations – cheese and orange, pineapple and cabbage – but he is the least fussy eater of all 3 children and we have yet to find anything he won’t eat. Baby led weaning has definitely worked for us.
I have recently teamed up with the lovely team over at Tesco Baby, and we have a very exciting #BabyFoodChat planned for next week. I will be meeting with a panel of experts to chat about all things weaning and baby feeding related – and we want YOU to get involved too!
What does a good diet for little one look like? How should you deal with food allergies? Is it five portions of fruit and veg a day – or seven? And what about vegetarian and other specialist diets? For the answers to these and other questions, don’t miss your chance to quiz the panel of baby nutrition experts. Post your questions here, email me or Tweet me using the #BabyFoodChat hashtag and I can ask the experts for you!
So who will I be talking to?
Katie Fordham ANutr – nutritionist at Danone Baby Nutrition UK
Dr Rebecca Chicot PhD – child development and parenting expert, and co-founder of The Essential Parent Company
Dr Sarah Temple – children’s GP
As you can see – there is an expert available to answer any type of weaning/feeding question you can throw their way! I am really excited about putting all your questions forward, so please do get in touch! Everyone who leaves a question will be entered into the prize draw to win a £25 Tesco gift card and a weaning set.
Win competitions at ThePrizeFinder.com
What would you say most fussy eaters refuse to try but after they eat it they enjoy it
been through weaning 3 times now and every childis different and has own likes/dislikes but how do you get health food into a child who decides they will only eat food of certain colours? we have has an everything white phase and a red phase
Don’t rush it
Great competition 🙂 Turtles rule!
My youngest son won’t eat vegetables, even when his brother and sisters are eating them he just refuses, It’s quite worrying. I would love some tips to get him to try more
Luckily my son will eat most things, except peas!! lol
oh dear I’d have the wet wipes out.
I did BLW because my little girl refused anything on a spoon. Seemed to work for us although will still try a mixture of both if we have another 🙂
do u feel that in young babies or children that theres a colour of fod that they find off puting ?
My niece always loved fruit and veg as a baby. x
My daughter only likes sweet things how do I get her to eat savoury
my little boy hated bland food, never touched baby rice, rusk or anything similar. he loves anything cheesey.
when can my daughter eat eggs, and how should i introduce them?
as a toddler my son ate anything put in front of him now he is fussy as anything!
I have also weaned 3 times, there is no hurry!
How can I get my daughter to eat more fruit and veg
An inspirational post!!
I love a bit of sweetcorn!!
He looks like hes enjoying that
I’m very fortunate, anything I give my girls they will eat, it’s unusual to find something they don’t like 🙂