h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've done puree weaning and (mostly) baby led weaning with my first and second children respectively. Mainly, I must say, because that's the way each child seemed to lean. I found advantages and disadvantages to both of course.

My son, the puree baby, really hates to chew even now at nearly five and has the manual dexterity of a slug and my daughter, the diy baby, is currently driving me nuts by refusing to eat more than a few bites of anything at any one time and also refusing food randomly so that I am constantly having to feed her bits of this and that and never get to plan meals for her properly.

On the other hand, my son eats healthily, with a healthy appetite and my daughter is much more handy and exploring than he ever was (as long as she only ever has to eat it once).

Anyway, nice article - I thought you did an excellent job of being informative without being preachy.

Thank you, especially for the bit about not being preachy!

Also lovely to hear your stories. also has days where he randomly decides that he doesn't like bananas, and seems to have decided that eggs are a no no. Olives and beetroot, however, are current favourites.