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[Kamiro]

I read "French Kids Eat Everything" and inspired I began to adopt some of the practices in our home. Not 100% mind you, (heck, not even 30%) but some of the practices just made sense.

With the baby I breastfeed on demand and have begun feeding her what we eat (within reason). In the last 6 weeks shes ate turnips, parsnips, leeks, spinach, sweet potatoes, garlic, vinegar, lima beans, brussel sprouts, carrots..all kinds of fruit...basically what we eat minus my dh's affinity for the  vegetarian/kosher "pop tarts" lol.

I don't feed her much in the ways of meat and she hasn't had rice cereal though she has had the multi grain earths best barley oat and spelt cereal 1x a day or used to thicken when I puree stuff.

Shes drank goats milk, coconut milk, and carrot/apple juice freshly juiced.

I have given her cow milk based yogurt.

So far it has worked well for us. She seems happier and very regular (2x a day I can expect a poo diaper!)

With the older kids they've gotten into the habit of picking out the strangest fruit or vegetable at the store and us preparing it and eating it. (Per the book) "You don't have to like it, but you do have to try it!" has become our motto.

With my last kids--- by this age we were formula feeding, as well as offering diluted apple juice in a sippy cup every day. We were feeding them pureed baby food and 'sneaks' of food we were eating with this huge set of "Thou Shalt Not" rules regarding infant food hanging over our head and making us feel guilty for...well, now I'm not even sure why. Not to mention my idea of veggies was peas, potatoes, corn, with something like asparagus being 'exotic'.

I *think* we may have found what works for us as a whole family. Any one else done things this way with previous children?

I know Sarah mentioned feeding avocoda and egg yolk (iirc?) as a first food and I know others are only feeding breastmilk until 12 months etc. so I was just kind of curious what every one else is doing.

[Sky]

We basically do the same as you described, we did it with DD1 and our DS will tastes any new food offered even now and he is 5 he really loves the different tastes, DD1 does too but she is more picky but a great healthy eater, lots of veggies, fruits etc "exotic" foods and now with Sång. She dips her fingers and even a spoon in my plate she has tried soups, stew, (the liquid parts of it) sweet potato etc.. stuff like that,  she doesn't really eat much now and is still bf on demand but she does like to taste :-) no chunks of food yet but she has grabbed my chocolate shake straw and went at it LOL!

[Sky]

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[BubbleMa]

I've heard of that book, but haven't read it.

This is basically what we're doing:

http://www.rapleyweaning.com/assets/blw_guidelines.pdf

So far I've given her avocado, pear, green bell pepper, and lightly steamed carrot.  She mostly just plays with it.  I have also given her unsweetened applesauce mixed with plain yogurt and she did okay with that.  Overall, I don't think she's really ready yet.  But I put her at the table with us and I'll put a slice of something in front of her if we have something suitable.  I'll just keep offering.  Eventually she'll start eating it. :)