I mentioned a couple of times that Mark and I wanted to try baby led weaning with Elias. While I like the idea, I’m not really sure it’s going to work for us because of our own eating habits and schedule. I certainly hope this changes a bit before baby number two comes around, but Mark and I don’t usually eat dinner until after Elias goes to sleep and we don’t eat breakfast and lunch together at all. I feel baby led works best when your child is sitting with you every time you eat a meal and if every meal includes food you can share with your child. Mark and I don’t eat a lot of plain vegetables, though. We eat a lot of spicy foods which aren’t suitable for babies.
I’d also wanted to make my own baby food, but time and my complete inability to do anything domestic prevents me from that. I actually think it would probably be more expensive in the long run. So I broke down and bought some pre-made baby food. For the amount Elias is eating, it’s not very expensive and by the time he’s eating complete meals, he’ll be moved over to “real” food.
I guess all that was a disclaimer for what you’re about to see: me spoon feeding Elias some squash. There’s a part of me that feels a little guilty about putting a spoonful of food in my son’s mouth instead of letting him feed himself, but I really don’t know why. We waited until he was 6 months old to start solids and we didn’t go with rice cereal first (or at all. I still don’t understand the point of it) and those were the two things that were most important to me.
That being said, Elias makes the same faces no matter what we offer to him. I think it’s the texture that disgusts him and not the taste of the food. Here’s a video of his first experience with squash. There are three other videos of this which can be seen over here on Flickr. At one point he decides he’s finished with the squash and starts blowing it back at me with raspberries. The videos also feature some of his babbling and a high pitched squealing thing he started doing a couple of weeks ago.
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