First up - Carrots!

So our little girl seemed to be ready a bit early for food... she was reaching for our food and enamored with watching us eat, so we figured we'd give it a shot a little early.  Try as I might, I couldnt find any definitive "here is the first food you should give your kid for BLW, and here is HOW to cook it".  So we took a guess!!

We decided to start with carrots.  I grabbed some baby carrots and steamed them for probably close to 20 minutes.  They were somewhat soft but had some texture.  I was a little nervous... what would her little gums do with them??  No matter what I did, they didnt seem soft enough, but from what I read, supposedly they needed to be able to pick them up with their hands, so they couldnt be too soft right?

We sat her down at her highchair, grandparents ready to film the whole thing, and we just put the steamed baby carrot in front of her.  She was curious, and put it straight to her mouth.  At first she didnt seem to know what to do with it.  She finally bit off a small chunk and it ended up coming out in a huge thing of drool.  Lots more drool, and then she got off a big chunk and started coughing.  From everything I read, they told us to expect gagging.  I didnt panic yet, she seemed like she was going to get it out... welllllll she got it out... and the entire contents of her stomach came up with it!! Yuck!  We cleaned her up, and put the tray back with a carrot I had somewhat mashed with a fork.  Not much more happened.

The next two trials of carrot, I was nervous, so I just gave her raw carrot sticks, knowing she couldn't actually get any of that down, she enjoyed chomping on the carrot, but didn't get anything from it... choking avoided, but no nutrition or negative nutrition!!

I think if I were to do carrot again I would either get it super steamed and mushy, or just give it to her pureed... or maybe it was mostly because it was her first food...