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Izzy is 6 months old today. All the “official” advice says you should only start baby led weaning at 6 months old, but she was getting hungry and seemed ready, so she’s 20 days in now!

Breakfast:
Abby did breakfast (as she does most days in fact), and it consisted of nectarine, banana and of course satsuma. The nectarine just got sucked for a bit, and she ate a fairly small amount of banana and satsuma, but she’s never very hungry first thing in the morning.

Lunch:
We gave Izzy the remains of the sweet potato from last night (slightly warmed in the microwave), and some satsuma. She ate quite a bit more than at breakfast, but still played with it a lot. The softer pieces of the sweet potato were definitely the favourite. I think I am steaming it for slightly less time in the vague hope it will be a bit less messy, but I think I should make them softer. We’ve also decided that orange is her favourite colour of food!

After lots of grabbing Abby also gave Izzy a small piece of wholemeal bread from her panini (it had no cheese on that bit. Izzy was happy sucking on that for a while, and I think probably swallowed quite a bit of it. She’s starting not to like us eating if she’s not, which is hard because if we are eating ourselves we can’t help her eat!

Dinner:
Something a bit different this evening – Abby fried up some squash and courgette. Despite being a little firmer and our experiences at lunch time, she really seemed to like the squash, but the courgette didn’t go down well (I don’t blame her – I think it’s horrible). She also had a bit of banana.