Pitta patter

My friend in England posts a pic on facebook of her daughter, Lola, in her high chair. Lola is 9 months older than Mae and is well and truly baby-led weaned, so after the carrot crisis I solicit suggestions for Mae’s first meals in the comments on the pic. The suggestions come thick and fast from friends over there who have all had great success with BLW. Pitta bread with avocado, brocolli, humous, rice crackers. Reassured by all these people and their happy babies who have survived carrot and worse, I decide on the pitta bread for today’s adventure.

Mae is able to pick it up herself without me handing it to her – yay! And she is able to suck and suck all the avocado off, AND keep it in her hand without it slipping out. The pitta starts to disintegrate as she sucks it, but I’m not at all worried that she will choke as it seems to just dissolve. Most of it is coming out the front, but she seems to enjoy the flavour and I am happy that she is getting the good fats from the avocado even if she is a long way from chewing and swallowing bread.



Learnings

• You could put any topping on pitta bread, like cream cheese, humous or more traditional purees if you wanted to make sure your baby was getting goodness from foods that can’t be cut into finger foods themselves
• She is getting the hang of this lark!