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So a few weeks before our little girl turned 6 months old, I started looking in detail into what we wanted to do for starting solids.  A few of our friends had done the whole "Baby Led Weaning" (BLW) thing and seemed to have a lot of success with it.

We decided to give it a shot.  We love food, and it was important that we could share it with our daughter, so why not give her every chance at liking lots of different foods??  I decided that we should probably combine the whole BLW thing with some purees... mostly for fun, but this was also reinforced when our pediatrician wasn't a huge fan of the BLW thing, and said she needed to start getting some nutrition from solids.  True BLW purists go by the "food is for fun until one" concept... but Im inclined to go with our pediatrician, especially as I am weaning her off of breastfeeding at 6-7months (mostly due to low supply), so rather than her getting all of her nutrition from processed formula powder, why not get it from healthy foods?

Along the way we found out that there were just some very simple things that no one tells you, but every parent trying it wants to know, so I figured it was worth sharing!

Here is our little eater trying out her new highchair on July 14th!