Tell Heinz about your weaning worries, experiences and funniest moments: win a £200 Amazon voucher
DanielleMFM
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Hello.
Heinz For Baby are partnering with MadeForMums to understand how
you feel about the magical, messy process of weaning your baby.
We’d love you to share here your honest thoughts about how weaning is (or was) for you – the good, the bad, the joyous, the tough, the funny, and more.
And we’ll be using your posts as inspiration for a selection of warm, honest, helpful weaning diaries we’re curating with Heinz For Baby to share with other parents who are getting ready to wean.
So please post here how you feel about weaning your baby onto solids – whether you’ve yet to start, are just getting to grips with it or have come out the other side of the weaning journey. And you could win a £200 Amazon voucher for sharing!
To be in with a chance of winning, please post by scrolling to the text box at the bottom of this thread to tell us about your weaning worries, experiences and funniest moments. If you’ve started weaning, feel free to post pictures of your baby trying out new foods, too – Heinz For Baby would love that!
Everyone who posts (and answers the question fully) will be entered into a prize draw to win a £200 Amazon voucher.
We'll keep this thread open until 30/09/19 and we’ll announce the winners’ names a few days later.
This discussion is sponsored by Heinz. Please note that comments and pictures you post here may be used by Heinz For Baby in future marketing and advertising material. See full Ts & Cs here.
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Logan absolutely loves his grub! Not quite sure of the lumpier things yet and doesn't like blueberry but pretty much licks the bowl every mealtime.
We can't eat anything in front of him without the puppy dog begging eyes, even if he is eating at the same time!
My biggest concerns when weaning have been portion sizes and whether he is getting too much or not enough, and trying to ensure a varied diet.
I'm loving seeing him trying new things though! Especially my cooking!
started at 6 months just purées! Heinz Rice & porridge. She was ok with that. Then added fruit purées to porridge & fruit purées alone all good! Ditched the rice she really wasn’t a fan ( can’t say as I blamed her it’s awful 🤢)!!
Now we are on Heinz jars 7m+ but this bubba is 8 months and really not buying into lumps 🤣 gags splutters then hand over mouth & refuses haha but determined mumma will keep trying 🤣
Tried distraction doesn’t work tried washing down with water, yuk! Added baby juice kinda tolerates a bit but won’t suck just chews the teets /spouts 🤔
Baby no 4 is a challenge haha 😂
Now cooking our own & have a simple blender, naturally using the @MadeForMums app for recipes:)
Has 6 teeth so she’s a lazy chewer for sure!! 🤞🤞 she gets better or I’m going to get told off by my next health visitor visit 🤷♀️ Hey she’s our stubborn one but we love her 💗
My 7.5 month old Arden is absolutely loving weaning. I feel like this is my biggest parenting success. I’m an extremely fussy eater and my partner and I tend to get stuck in a rut with our meals but we make sure Arden tries everything. It’s been such a great adventure trying him with different textures and vegetables I’ve never even tried. We do a mixture of purées, jars and baby led weaning and all we’ve found so far that he doesn’t like is butternut squash! Every time I try him with something different I’m excited to see how he will react. So far his favourite thing seems to be fish fingers. In terms of the things he eats he’s so ahead of my friends children purely because I’ve tried to just steam ahead and give him a bit of everything and not concentrate on my fear of him choking.
It’s sometimes a struggle to come up with something creative for him to have but I use a variety of resources for inspiration. I was never a great or experimental cook but this has spurred me on to broaden my horizons.
Prior to weaning we had issues with constipation but now he has so much fibre and fruit we have no issues at all.
I genuinely have loved weaning, it’s been my favourite part of parenting thus far
We first started weaning Fern on Christmas Day 2018 when she was 6 months old! It has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for us!
At first she would eat/try pretty much everything you put in front of her which was great! As she has grown older though we’ve found she is becoming fussier and preferring sweeter foods! I just hope she isn’t as fussy as I was as a child!
I found it hard at the beginning with the mess and just totally changing your day to deal with meal times! From preparing, eating to clearing up it could take at least an hour!!
Thankfully we’re more into the swing of things now at 14 months but it took a while to get our heads round it as first time parents!
Hes taken to eating like a duck to water though, he loves his food.
Love this picture, her first encounter with blackberries. She loves all fruit and a surprising number of vegetables.
I find some of the faces she pulled with new tastes hilarious!