It all sounded very exciting, but sort of dull at the same time. Why did baby need to have bland baby rice and baby porridge mixed with breast milk/formula for the first few days? Followed by mild tasting fruit and veg. And what’s this baby-led weaning all about?

After reading about it whilst looking up papers regarding use of BPA free plastics for infants (thinking about ice-cube trays in particular), I decided to look more into it.  Of course I’d heard about it, but like most people I thought it just meant giving them things like sticks of carrots and cucumber instead of pureeing things, the article by Gill Rapley of Unicef suggested there was more to it.                                                                                                                                                                          Being the geek I am, I ordered the Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook from Amazon to see what it was all about, I figured I didn’t need to know the full score in the main BLW book and the cookbook was bound to have a decent enough introduction to the concept of baby-led weaning.

By the time it arrived, I’d read a bit more on the subject and was starting to become more intrigued and more sure that it was the way to go for us. Well, last night my husband and I read the book together and came away feeling very excited about the idea.

An easy decision once we’d read about it.  Really does seem like a no-brainer to us.  We’ve got a few weeks to go and we’re already excited about having Art share our meals.