Welcome to Baby Lead the Way! If you're reading this, then you've discovered baby led weaning and have either started already or want to. I'm sure you don't need me to explain it to you, maybe you've made the choice, or are leaning that way. I'll give you some background on us and our experiences, so you'll know us a little!
We are Lolly and Beams (I'm Beams!). We are both in our late twenties, both gave birth to our first child in June 2012. I had a boy, D, and Lolly had a girl, E. We met in an online mums' group while pregnant, and have shared the highs and lows since! We both breastfed, but that's not a requirement here, and we both did blw right from the start, starting at six months.
We've loved watching our babies discover food, and become so independent (and wow are they independent!), but it was a steep learning curve. Both D & E have gone through fussy phases. Whether it was teething or sickness, something they loved today could be thrown to the floor another day. This can be tough and make you doubt yourself but in the end we have always adapted our routines to work with this.
In my own experience, D got an awful lot of vegetables thrown at him, I just didn't know what I should give him for lunches and small meals. Dinners are not too bad to come up with ideas, as often I can adapt mum and dad's, but trying to get the right balance of the best nutrition for baby all the time can be tough on your own. For Lolly she had to deal with E having digestive issues and worked on ruling out possible allergens.
We are both passionate about cooking and even more passionate about motherhood. And so a blog was born!
Just a disclaimer here, we're not medical professionals, nutritionists or dieticians. This is not the blw bible, just a helpful space where hopefully you can gain some inspiration!
So welcome to our wonderful world! We hope you can use some of what you find here, and that what you find is tasty!
Enjoy reading, and have fun letting baby lead the way!
Thanks for visiting!
Lolly & Beams
