Baby Led Weaning

First of all I have to say that I hate that name, but someone thought it sounded good so that is what we are all stuck with.....   Basically it means that instead of feeding Myles a bunch of purees, we give him a bit of whatever we are eating and let him figure out how to eat it.  It is seriously the cutest thing ever. And Myles absolutely loves it.  He loved eating traditional baby food at first, but then he got increasingly frustrated with the whole thing, either I wasn't feeding him fast enough or he wanted what we were eating instead.  So one night I handed him a piece of bacon just to see what he would do with it.

He sucked on that thing until it was in teeny tiny pieces and loved every minute of it.  It was a huge success. So we have slowly started letting him eat what ever we are eating and he LOVES it.  Here he is eating rigatoni

And mushroom barley soup.

He really likes pancakes and any kind of fruit.  He chowed down on pieces of broccoli the other night.  

No he doesn't choke on anything, never has, he does occasionally gag on something but it is totally normal and he doesn't seem bothered by it and goes right on eating.  And he is so much happier at mealtimes.  And it's super easy to just give him whatever we are eating instead of trying to feed him something while trying to eat my own dinner before it got cold.  I know that he isn't actually swallowing most of what he is trying to eat, but I am totally ok with that.  I still feed him some things on a spoon, but I have also let him try and feed himself coconut yogurt and some of the baby food we have left and he does pretty good if I put it on the spoon for him.  He is still milk and soy intolerant but I figure if I can eat it so can he.  Happy Eating!