First try with food

Indigo has been joining us at the table, in her highchair, at meal times for a few weeks now. She has increasingly got more bored with her toys and interested in the food on our plates; following fork from plate to mouth slightly beyond herself with excitement and a slight bit of frustration that we are not sharing this very interesting food with her.

So, the other day Simon handed her a piece of lettuce from his plate (not the most exciting item of food some might say, but homegrown from the allotment nevertheless)... It went straight in the mouth and got a good chew - success! The lettuce leaf went limp quite soon, from being covered in saliva and scrunched up in little hands, and she probably didn't swallow much, but she seemed to have fun with it!  

The following day we had a go with sliced cucumber, a stick of raw green pepper and some avocado from our salad. The cucumber was good to hold but too hard to chew, so she sucked it a bit and I think managed to eat the soft center part with the seeds in. The avocado I thought would be the perfect consistency to chew, but turned out to be tricky to hold as it was rather slippy. She did manage to get some in her mouth though, and when it proved too difficult  to hold she worked out that she could pick it off the table with her mouth, what a clever baby (must get that from me). The green pepper was perfect to hold, and she seemed to enjoy chewing on that the most (that could have to do with it being cold and having a good effect on her teething gums??) but it was obviously a bit too hard to take a bite off and eat, so maybe we should steam that next time.

All in all, our first few tries with BLW has been a success. We have enjoyed watching her exploring her food and she has definitely had a great time with the few diffierent things we have tried so far. I shall be inspecting her nappies closely in the next few days and report back on my findings - I have never been quite this excited for her to have her next poop... oh dear!