Reddit reviews The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook: Delicious Recipes That Will Help Your Baby Learn to Eat Solid Foods―and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy

I've never heard that before! Give him all the meats! My sons favorite thing to suck on/naw on was Pulled Pork!

Those little gums can do a lot, no need to wait for molars!

My MIL wasn't on board with BLW (or anything that I do LOL) so I got this book and let her read it.


https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Led-Weaning-Cookbook-Recipes-Foods_and/dp/161519049X

It's universal that solids should only supplement breastmilk/formula at 4mo, so keep on keeping on. I mentioned in another comment recently that from about 6mo to 1yr or daughter was eating 3 solid meals a day on top of a full 32oz of breastmilk/formula diet!? Cray.

It's pretty common for babies to battle the boob around 4mo, especially if they're distracted by all the new sensory developments they're going through. If you want to keep breastfeeding, do try to power through and it will get better. Head over to r/breastfeeding and you'll find a lot of common posts about stuff like this.

Poo: c'est la vie, you have to roll with a changing poo schedule. Our daughter would sometimes do one every morning, or two a day, or one every 4 days... you just need to roll with the changes as best you can. PS they make prune pouches, so you can give baby some solids AND help constipation!

We tried Baby Led Weaning and really liked it. For meal planning, you just plan for the whole family rather than just baby. Head over to r/BabyLedWeaning if that interests you. I can also highly recommend this Baby Led Weaning Cookbook. It lays out some really helpful ground rules and steps and stages for baby, plus great recipes.

Keep offering the foods she doesn't like, they often change their minds. Also, there is a cookbook to the baby led weaning bandwagon. I bought it and it gives the tl:dr version and then on to recipes! Offer her little bits of what you are eating, show her how good it is!

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Do your share of the work, plus some. Even if you think you’re doing “half” the work....do some more. It is often the case that dads don’t do as much work when it comes to parenting (yes, this is a stereotype but is often based in reality), but one advantage of twins is that you each can be holding one or changing one, etc. I know that when my wife and I looked at each other and saw a baby in each other’s arms, it was clear that we were BOTH working, not just her.

With that said, anytime she had both (tandem nursing, for example) I made sure I was cleaning the house or cooking food.

Other random things/books that helped us, not necessarily twin-related:

Baby Led Weaning

Unconditional Parenting

In that case, I found the full Baby Led Weaning book to be way more than I'd ever read or need to read, but the Baby Led Weaning Cookbook had just the right amount of info plus some recipe ideas.

Was is The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook? I've heard good things about it. There's also a book called Baby-led Weaning by the same authors.

We did BLW - I recommend the website and the cookbook. There's even a subreddit.

We started with toast, and carrots. Like previous poster stated I would take a CPR class, hubby and I did for peace of mind but luckily never have had to use it. It was really wonderful -- she ate everything, going to restaurants was easy. She would be happy with steamed broccoli but make sure when you order to ask for plain veggies - a lot of places add stuff.

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I recommend The Guide to Baby Led Weaning or The Baby Led Weaning Cookbook. The recipes are great!

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Also I would avoid chunks of apple. The texture makes them really "chokey". Grating apple until molars come in is best. Or bake them first.

Also check out infant CPR for choking on YouTube so you will know what to do if anything happens. It made me feel much more confident.

My MIL was dead against BLW and would yell "He's choking!" and freaking out... I let her spoon feed him when she babysat but she quickly came around and was soon bragging about how well he feeds himself and eats everything to all her friends.

We did BLW with my son and will be doing it again with my daughter once she's ready for solids. I really like the BLW cookbook. It has a summary of the philosophy behind it, recipes which are pretty much regular food but with ideas for how to prepare it to accommodate baby's skill levels with handling food. It has a nice chart where you can look at what skills babies develop and what kinds of food are easy at that point in development and what foods will help challenge them to develop their skills further but won't be completely beyond their abilities.

The Baby Led Weaning Cookbook by Gill Rapley is the one I suggest to people. http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Led-Weaning-Cookbook-Recipes-Foodsand/dp/161519049X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1453462832&sr=8-2&keywords=Baby+led+weaning

I think it's the best resource and has a good summary of food types, sizes, and concerns about things like salt intake.

There is an official baby led weaning cookbook. It has a good introduction that summarizes the whole official BLW book. Then it has lots of recipes. I used it alot for my first child since it helped me figure out what to add or remove to recipes to make them age appropriate. Here is a link to the book. https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Led-Weaning-Cookbook-Recipes-Foods_and/dp/161519049X

This one: https://www.amazon.ca/Baby-Led-Weaning-Cookbook-Recipes-Foods_and/dp/161519049X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478569225&sr=1-1

Baby Led Weaning Cookbook

Although it doesn't sound like you're doing baby led weaning (skipping purées and letting baby feed him/herself), I'd still recommend the baby led weaning cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/The-Baby-Led-Weaning-Cookbook-Recipes/dp/161519049X). I got mine at the library. It has a lot of simple and healthy meals that the baby can eat with you. Real food that adults would enjoy too. :)

I also recommend slow cookers, and freezing prepped slow cooker meals so you can just defrost the night before, and toss in the slow cooker in the morning.