Hi there are two types of weaning, traditionally where you spoon feed purées and baby led where baby picks up easy to hold sizes pieces of food and feeds themselves. Have you decided which route to take? There are many opinions on each method and as long as you stick to the rules regarding what baby can eat at what age (gluten, dairy etc) you really won't 'get it wrong'. How old is your LO? I started off offering Harry just one or two spoons of carrot or sweet potato to begin with and I did this after his lunchtime bottle as milk is more important and he screwed his face up to begin with! I did this for a week then introduced something similar at teatime, maybe some apple or pear then another week later something similar at breakfast time. He's now 6 months and I've introduced porridge at breakfast time and included meat, carbs, diary into his other two meals. BLW is completely different and some mums prefer it as it gets baby used to chewing straight away, hopefully someone else can offer you some advice on this? Harry has finger foods now, rice cakes and toast and struggles with chewing as I gave him purées! Regarding reducing milk, I really don't know as my HV advised me to start now as he's 6 months, dropping a bottle every 3 days but I haven't done so far! X
