BLW - Day 1

Hidebound by convention I started with bananas... well, no hang on, stop there, I actually started just before Christmas with the inside goo from a chocolate eclair which The Boy couldn't get enough of. Two months too early and chock-full of sugar and cream. Bad Mother.

Moving swiftly on to BLW Official Day 1.

The Boy is five months and four weeks and I started early because it's Chinese New Year and DH has four days off so can share the first food fun. And I started with bananas... because babies like bananas right?

Some hitherto unknown things about bananas will follow;

Babies do like them but not nearly as much as they like other things which we will come to on Days 2 & 3.

Bananas are gooey and squishy and really hard for a little unco to pick up and put in his mouth.

Banana goo sticks like cement to every surface and cloth it gets onto.

Banana goo leaves permanent black specks on clothing.

Meal 1 went like this;

Put together new much searched for aesthetically pleasing wooden high chair (Bumps to Babes in Ap Lei Chau, in case you are wondering).

Realise that although The Boy can sit unaided for short periods of time something about the aesthetically pleasing wooden seat and the designed-by-a-spanner harness makes The Boy slump unhappily to one side unable to reach the tray or use the arm he is slumped onto.

Try to take The Boy out of the high chair but not being an expert yet precipitate a "What are you doing to me Mum" screaming fit.

Worry that I have traumatised my baby without even presenting him with any food yet due to a desire to have a high chair that somewhat matches my living room furniture.

Enlist DH who points out that if I loosen the straps and stick a cushion behind him The Boy can sit comfortably at the tray with the use of both hands and arms.

Finally present The Boy with much longed for banana.

Watch and grin.