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Top Tips for weaning your baby

May 11, 2016 by Katie Bryson 6 Comments

Top tips for weaning your baby on feedingboys.co.uk

Introducing your baby to solid food can feel overwhelming after months on end of giving them milk. Where do you start? How do you start? What do you give them? How often should your try giving them a food if they’ve rejected it?

Being a foodie I couldn’t wait to get my two boys started on the road to trying proper food and testing out different tastes and textures. I’ll never forget giving Sam his first taste of baby rice and his face was a picture as he spat it out in sheer confused horror! Once I started giving him pureed fruit and vegetables he was much happier, and it wasn’t long before he was demolishing little portions of lasagne, fish pie and chicken casserole. I think we pretty much cooked every recipe in Annabel Karmel’s Baby and Toddler Meal Planner. Sam was my first baby, and therefore I bought every baby instruction manual going. I was far too terrified to follow my own instincts!

Top tips for weaning your baby on feedingboys.co.uk

By the time Arlo came along three years later, I was far more relaxed about motherhood and baby led weaning became more in vogue. So giving little ones soft foods to hold onto and chew like florets of cooked broccoli and batons of carrot was the order of the day. It won’t come as much surprise that Arlo was swift to catch on to the world of food, and hasn’t stopped exploring his tastebuds since.

As with most children, both my boys ate a huge variety of foods when they were weaning, but became more fussy about what they will and won’t eat as they got older and more opinionated.  They’re still brilliant eaters for their age though, and I hope my love of food and cooking has and will continue to inspire them.

Organix No Junk Journey on feedingboys.co.ukSo if you’re about the embark on this journey with your little ones, I’ve put together a handy list of hints and tips together with Organix to help you navigate the weaning stage.

Top tips for weaning your baby from Organix and Feeding Boys

Be prepared

Invest in a bib that has sleeves and gives good coverage and protection. A splash mat under the highchair can help to contain the mess – you could even use an old shower curtain!

Finger food

Dipping your fingers in puree and then pop them into your mouth to show your baby how they can do it too. If they’re tasting purees by using their own hands, rather than being spoon fed this will teach them how to feed themselves. It might only be little tastes and lots of mess at this stage, but it encourages independent feeding.

Fruity ideas

Top tips for weaning your baby on feedingboys.co.uk
Fruity purees are a fabulous way to have fun with new flavours. Apple, pear, raspberry and mint is a refreshing combo and not only lovely for introducing little ones to different fruits, but also ideal for stirring into Greek yoghurt or spooned over ice cream for the grown ups too! Find the recipe here

Matching pairs

Offer your little one a puree alongside a matching finger food to use as a dipper. Give your baby a small amount of puree on a spoon, then hand them the finger food dipped in the same puree. Join in and encourage them to copy you!

Dips and Dippers

Top tips for weaning your baby on feedingboys.co.uk

Fresh dips and roasted vegetable dippers are an effective way of introducing babies to new flavours and textures. I’m a huge fan of dips, so I came up with combos that i’d be happy to put on the table at a drinks party too! I love combinations like butternut squash, sage and cream cheese, pea and mint and a lovely cooling yoghurt and cucumber. For dipping I baked courgette fingers rolled in egg and breadcrumbs, along with sweet potato wedges. You could also add simple buttered toast soldiers to the mix. Find the recipes in this post

Tiny tastes

Baby food doesn’t need to be bland, so introduce small tastes of herbs and spices into their food. You could sprinkle some cinnamon on their apple puree, a little mild curry powder to their parsnip puree or add some nutmeg to their porridge.

Sing along!

Singing a nursery rhyme or song while introducing a tricky bitter flavour like spinach or broccoli will help build a positive association with a seemingly unpopular flavour. It’ll help keep your spirits up if they’re rejecting something. It’s worth remembering that it can take between 10-15 attempts before a baby learns to like a new food.

For even more tips and advice you can download of the Organix Little Book of Weaning
Organix Little Book of Weaning

Your tips!

I’d love to hear any tips or advice YOU might have for new mums embarking on weaning their babies for the first time! Add your comments to this blog post or head onto social media using the #NoJunkJourney hashtag. You can find @OrganixBrands on Twitter and on Facebook they are Organix Foods.

Disclosure: This is the third in a series of partnered posts i’m working on with Organix to promote their No Junk Journey campaign, as it’s an issue I feel strongly about and want to share with you here on my blog.

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Comments

  1. Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says

    May 12, 2016 at 9:18 am

    These sound like great tips! I imagine it’s a very messy job haha

    Reply
    • Katie Bryson says

      May 12, 2016 at 10:46 am

      yep it certainly is Becca!

      Reply
  2. Sarah Maison Cupcake says

    May 12, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Bit of a touchy subject for us, mine used to puke everything back out again unless it was jars of Heinz Creme Caramel and Heinz Baby Porridge out again until he was nearly 2. Then virtually overnight he ate normally. Thank god he eats properly now!!

    Reply
  3. Kate Hackworthy says

    May 12, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Weaning is such a special time. I did BLW with both of mine and it was such fun (messy, but fun). I love the matching pairs game.

    Reply
  4. Helen @ family-friends-food.com says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    Baby led weaning all the way – who has time to cook two lots of dinner or start pureeing stuff?! My daughter got what we got from day 1, although I did stop adding salt to anything. The only time I tried to give her something else was when I’d made a curry, so I did her some plain vegetables without the sauce. She could see straightaway that she didn’t have the same as us and made a huge fuss until I gave her some of the curry sauce. I needn’t have worried – she yummed it down!

    Reply
  5. Victoria says

    May 21, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    This is baby no3 & my first boy. My girls weaned with ease, purée then introduced lumps (that’s what you did back then). My boy is now 8mth & trying to BLW since 6mth but he’s just not interested. He used to like preloaded spoons but now just launches it on the floor, blows raspberries & spits food out. I just don’t know where to go from here.

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