If you don’t follow @solidstarts on ig, I highly recommend you do. She said something in stories today and it was so eye opening!

She was talking about baby purées and how the corporations advertise “stage 1” purées and the. “Stage 2” a tad chunkier for older babies and then “stage 3” for toddlers with even bigger chunks etc... and these items aren’t made to get your baby to get used to textures or chunkier food, it’s literally CORPORATE GREED to get you to keep buying their products for longer periods of time... and the part that stuck with me...

“We are afraid to give our babies real food/finger foods because it’s been engrained in our minds that they’re dangerous.. we’re afraid to give finger foods because these food companies literally told us we should be”

Anyways, just for all you mama struggling to start solid foods.. I’ve done baby led with all my kids and we’ve never had an actual choking incident. (Gagging, yes for sure! But that’s normal) .. and here is a study done for you to show that finger foods don’t raise the risk of choking. .. you mamas got this! These babies will be eating chicken Nuggets off the floor in no time ;) kidding, sort of.