Three weeks today since we started offering Arthur food, though he was poorly for one of those, and we are so pleased that we chose to let him lead his own feeding.
Every day he amazes us more and more with his eating skills, and also his hand co-ordination skills, which is actually what amazes me the most at this stage. If he goes to put something to his mouth but it isn’t the way around he wants it, he brings it back down, swaps hands or uses the other hand to rearrange it, then puts it back to his mouth.
Why don’t more people do baby led weaning?
It would appear that the only reason more Mums are not doing BLW is that they don’t eat healthily enough themselves or don’t cook from scratch for themselves, therefore it seems like a big chore to do baby-led.
We have found it so easy, but we primarily cook our meals from scratch and generally eat a lot of fresh vegetables. I really do think that anyone wanting to have a child who eats healthily should consider BLW. More than anything, it helps you eat more healthily yourself, which has got to have an impact on them, hasn’t it?
Highs and Lows
Top food so far is probably dried apricots, cucumber and celery. Oh, and broccoli.
In fact, he likes most food. Apples, banana, mango, carrot. He wasn’t interested in omelette, some that even hit the window behind him. Unfortunately I forgot until the day after when Art’s Dad asked what it was 
Lorna has not been interested in omelette either, though for some reason hard boiled egg was quite a success. Hmm, not tried dried apricot yet, that sounds interesting. She had a rice cake at baby group yesterday which was a big hit, so I bought some (they have barely any salt in) as I thought they’d make a useful portable snack. She had chilli con carne last night (without the chilli for her), and lamb casserold the night before, which seemed to go down very well! I’m with you on how quickly they develop their eating skills, and I do think that it really helps with their hand-eye coordination. And it is definitely making us eat more healthily, though I’ve noticed our weekly shopping bill going up with all the extra fruit and veg we’re now buying! I know you said that Art has porridge fingers for brekky sometimes, I’ve found making ordinary porridge, but extra thick is a bit easier for Lorna to eat as she doesn’t have any teeth. She just picks up handfulls and shoves it in her mouth.