Spoon fed or baby led? That is a big question, with pros and cons for each of them. In my ten years of parenting and three previous children, I always spoon fed weaned them. This
Spoon fed or baby led? That is a big question, with pros and cons for each of them. In my ten years of parenting and three previous children, I always spoon fed weaned them. This was due to no information known, or even offered to me on baby-led at the time. Now baby led weaning is more common, I decided that I needed to do what was right for baby Emma.
I decided to do combination weaning, I give her spoon feeds and also baby led weaning where I let her feed herself. Now I have found that Emma loves having porridge from a spoon, and I am quite happy to know when she has had enough. But she also LOVES feeding herself too, and takes great delight in joining in family meal times with food for herself.
It seems to work well for Emma, and she seems happy with the way things are going, which is the most important thing.
What did you do? Any opinions on our combination feeding?
