More pancakes please!

Since our last blog it's been a great week of Baby Led Weaning (BLW) with Georgia-Rose (G-R) trying more new foods, developing new techniques and finding some foods hilarious (who knew chicken was so funny!).

We started the week having a sleepover at my parents place, here G-R has a small seat with a tray rather than her high chair so with our floor mat packed I was keeping fingers crossed that this wasn't going to be the night G-R learnt how to throw food! (Bet my mum can't wait until G-R starts eating Spag Bol!)

We decided to try out tomatoes. I'd read that some babies react to raw tomatoes with red blotches around their mouths, not necessarily a sign of allergy in the long term I understand. With no blotching to be seen G-R delved into the tomatoes skin and all, (sucking them dry and then munching the skin), giggling away. Although some tomatoes ended up on the mat it was G-R doing her cleaning technique, telling us she has finished eating by
arm sweeping any food on her tray off and onto the floor!

This is the week I wanted to start adding more textures, we've focused on lots of fruit and veg which she loves but our aim is that she'll soon be eating smaller portions of our meals.

***let me stop here a second*** some parents who are going down the BLW route offer smaller portions or versions of their own dinners from the get go. This is our intention soon but at the moment it's a rarity rather than the norm. Again here there is no right or wrong way...we're just doing it our way and touch wood at the moment it seems to be going well.

So back to those textures...we've tried out pasta, we went for fusilli as it's easy to grip and this was a winner! A sign of a winning food seems to be her chatting loudly as she eats and giving us lots of food filled smiles.

Chicken...G-R's first meat! With a bit of flavouring she loved this, it shredded easily in her mouth and it's one of the meals she has eaten the most of! I've never seen the cats look more like vultures though, circling below her in case she dropped any!

Pancakes! One of my favourites, and one of the many reasons I am married to my fabulous husband...he makes amazing pancakes. Selfishly I was keeping fingers crossed she would like them so I could ask for them more often...luckily like mother like daughter. Pancakes are not just for Shrove Tuesday!

A Sandwich...G-R and I went to my sister in laws Baby Shower and whilst I was eating the yummy buffet food, G-R tucked into a bit of cheese sandwich sitting on her Oma's lap (Nan). Another winner and she loved the audience watching her!

Gagging and Choking

One thing that has reduced is the gagging, although she still does it she looks less bothered by it and gagging is turning into little coughs here and there. I was made aware of how scaring (scary) gagging can be though when whilst watching G-R eat and then gag two family members both panicked saying 'she's choking!'....we calmly reacted reassuring them she was just gagging. It reminded me of the YouTube clip I was sent by an NCT tutor which is worth a look to understand the reaction.

Of course on the flip side babies can choke, which I can only imagine is terrifying. I came across this St John ambulance video for choking babies which is well worth a look.




We're really enjoying watching G-R develop, pull faces at new tastes, giggle at different textures. Not so much a fan of the new smells but it comes with the territory lol!

Next week I'm going to get my apron out and using some BLW recipes I've found to do some baking...wish my luck!

Hannah