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Personally I’ve never heard of BLW until I joined this app so I’m not very familiar with it, both my niece and nephew started pablum at 4 months so my family expects me to start with that for my daughter too but I hear it has no real nutritional value so I’m just curious what everyone else’s plan is for their June baby? If you’re doing purées will you be doing the rice cereal or skip it? FTM lol

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A mixture of purées and BLW at 6 months! Skip the rice cereal crap, it has literally no nutritional value and it doesn’t help babies sleep better which apparently some people believe 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Food before 1 is just for fun. Your primary nutrition for baby should be formula or Brest milk . So I say six months/ baby led

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My 1st I did purees at 4 months, then transitioned to more of a BLW style of feeding at 6 months. My daughter wouldn’t take a bottle at daycare (only took 1-2 oz at a time) so we started purees and baby oatmeal to give her some calories while I was away. 
If you get into BLW groups on here or facebook, they’re super intense. They have some great ideas of types of food and ways to cut them for serving, which is nice.
I’m going to try to wait until closer to 6 months and do more of a BLW approach, but if my baby acts hungry earlier or rejects food then I’ll start purees and be fine with that.
What I’m trying to say is, listen to your baby and what he/she needs. You’re the parent and you get to decide what’s best for your baby.

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I had no idea what blw either until baby #3. But apparently I been doing it? Idk hahaha. My first baby wanted my apple at 4mo. So I would stick them in the fridge and peel them for her. Helped her teeth come in and felt better. She was barely getting the juice from them haha. But she loved them. We slowly introduced baby foods. She didn't care too much so we introduced tiny soft foods after 6mo. Food before 1 is just for fun.
Our second i did the same thing except he hated baby food. So I wouod take rice and mix his baby food with his rice for texture and he loved it. Again at 6mo. 
Food before 1 is just for fun.
Now this time around im not sure what we will do because he has a cleft lip and pallet. Probably do the apple thing again and then introduce baby food at 6mo or older.

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not doing blw but starting ourees at 6 months

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Purées at 6 months x

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What is BLW?

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Blw I did it with my 15 month old it’s so much easier

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I read a lot with my first about different methods and recommendations (2am feedings are for nothing else!) and by that I mean a or of full books, older and fresh articles, the history of, some research papers... It's not an easy decision to make so I have it some thought.
In the end I went with BLW but I put some extra restrictions on it. I pulled together a huge list of different foods and recommended times of introduction of them. I had like five different sources for this list. I then emailed it to my health visitor who added a few thoughts - it was along the lines of "in theory that's fine but in reality beetroot often collects nitrates from the soil which is a bit heavy on baby's body so I'd push it out with another month or two" - but generally okayed it.
In practice it looked like this:
While preparing lunch I made sure I had at least one thing I could offer for baby, like steamed veggies etc. And then at lunch she either sat on my lap or in the highchair, with the baby compatible selection spread in front of her. If something came out mushy, I loaded a handful of spoons and placed those in front of her (if she was interested in them I kept loading her spoons). If she was visibly interested in something but didn't succeed, I offered help with that, like when she had trouble with the spoons initially I helped her moving them in a way that the food stayed in the spoon long enough and then reached her mouth. Otherwise she chose for herself and fed herself from the beginning.
It was a great success.
She interested in all of the food we eat, including spicy things. She's extremely healthy, developing well physically and mentally both. We never had a problem with eating. She's three years old now and sometimes she'll insist she doesn't like something but the next day she eats that very same thing, so...
My mother in law kept insisting that she should be fed and even though I stopped her from pushing, she kept offering spoonfeeding her at every meal we ate together... Eventually after she was two years old it clicked, my daughter realized that being spoonfed was great fun and now when she's bored or tired she will request to be fed.

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For my 1st I did rice cereal first at 4 months then purees and stepped up in the different baby food stages then eventually did bite sized Whole Foods I knew nothing about BLW then.. I think this time I’ll still start with rice cereal, and purées at 4 months and at 6 months I’ll try BLW

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