Hellobee Boards

We did! Those are some great posts to start with.

We started with small shreds of chicken. We baked it and shredded it with a fork. Also steamed broccoli (easy to hold and eat,) tortellini cut in half, steamed baby carrots cut up into chunks, shredded cheese (dont buy the pre-shredded stuff, it has nasties in it,) pasta noodles with butter or red sauce. Baked apples (skin removed) with a little cinnamon, toast with cinnamon cut up, baked sweet potato. Basically whatever we were eating. You want to make the pieces small enough to not choke, but easy for them to grab and feed themselves.

We did this because I tried to give Liv purees at 6 months, and she made this god awful face like "GROSS!" I tried again a week later and got the same face, but she was gnawing at our food so I knew she wanted more than milk. So we have BLW a shot and she LOVED it. I think she didnt like the texture, because even now she wont eat anything with that consistency. No oatmeal, applesauce, those squeezy fruit pouches, etc.