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We have been working on introducing solid food....  We wanted to wait until the Tot was well into his sixth month, especially since he was a preemie baby (and in fact at about 4 months old, when our doctor said to start with rice cereal, a new study came out saying that parents should wait).... we also read a lot about solids and got a lot of great advice on how to introduce solids... puree vs. chunks of food.  This has not been as easy as everyone says.  We are taking tips from all methods, so the Tot gets some pureed food and some solid chunks and we let him kinda decide.  

A Mom I trust told me about Baby Led Weaning and after reading everything I could get my hands on, decided that I wanted to try that.  I am not opposed to pureed foods, it just didn't make much sense to me.  I also did a lot of research on Rice Cereal and realized I had no interest in that stuff.  So, just like everything else in parenting, there are a lot of opinions, and I am learning that people get quite angry if you don't do it "their" way.... So, we plod along doing some pureed food and give the Tot chunks of food to suck on and we laugh and try to make it fun.  The Mom I trust gave me great advice months ago... she said don't worry so much about it.  Babies get all the nutrition they need from milk for the first year and that solid food is just for fun.  So, we try to make it fun.  

Noodles thinks it is awesome.  She has decided that Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato are DELISH!  So although the Tot doesn't get much food in the mouth, Noodles certainly does.