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Everything with a first baby is a brand new adventure.  Thinking back to my pregnancy, I prepared so much more for labor and delivery than anything else!  It wasn’t very sensible when the labor and delivery are only a day or two, and the baby will be with you for much longer. I remember very clearly those early days of [...]

Like many moms and fellow Hellobee’ers, I was apprehensive to try BLW right away. We started solids at 5 months because Baby Squiggles was showing all the signs of being ready for food: he was reaching for our food and eyeing us while we ate, he had great head control and could sit up assisted, [...]

We’re coming up on Baby Stroller’s 10 month birthday and have been doing BLW for over four months now. I don’t think there’s anything Baby Stroller hasn’t tried, and of those things very few he hasn’t loved. We’ve got this whole eating thing down! While the eating and food prep part of BLW has been [...]

When we started solids with Charlie, we followed all the “rules.” We waited until he was 6 months old, we started with rice cereal and purees, we gave vegetables before fruits so he wouldn’t develop a sweet tooth (turns out there’s no merit to this), we didn’t use any salt, and we fed each food [...]

We started Baby Led Weaning (BLW) just shy of Baby Stroller’s 6 month birthday. The “weaning” part of BLW doesn’t mean to wean from breast milk as the U.S. definition of weaning might suggest, rather it means to introduce supplementary foods to a baby’s diet. For the first 12 months, breast milk is best (for [...]

Wonder Baby having her first solids. In retrospect, raspberries were a rather messy choice. Three weeks ago, Wonder Baby hit the six month mark.  A pretty big deal for a baby — she’s past that little, helpless infant stage, and is into a much more active stage.  She’s mobile (although rather slowly and mostly backwards), [...]

Toddler Girl at her second birthday. She ate all the icing and left the cupcake. I wrote previously about how we did Baby Led Weaning with Toddler Girl.  BLW is sometimes touted as the path to perfect eating habits later in life, so I thought I’d give you an update on how it’s worked out [...]