I am awash with mixed emotions...oscillating between starting to soon yet not being able to stop myself and I realised I have been so caught up in proper food being flung everywhere that I haven't introduced myself yet!! My name is Miriam, my wee girl Ellie is 6 and half months old (she was a month early -my husband Barry, likes to point this out during our BLW sessions). We are practicing Attachment Parenting Dr Sear's styleee and have up until now had fairly rousing support from the family for all that we have 'subjected' our daughter to. Until now. MIL just cannot understand why we would want to put our precious baby through such torture, why would we want her to gag, why cant we just give her mushed up food? So..we bought the high chair and decided to give it a go. 6months and1.5 weeks. First night, she didn't even look at the food on her table, as if she knew, after 10mins she picked up the broccoli put it to her mouth and looked very unimpressed!!! Second night, gave her some millet and she puked up everywhere...excellent beginning????? She did particularly love the apple and blueberry puree on a spoon grrrr not very BLW although at least I didn’t puree it and she held the spoon herself!!! On her 3rd foray into with the whole BLW thing, I got completely carried away at inlaws Friday night dinner, gave Ellie asparagus, potato, banana(?) and chicken. She seemed completely underawed by the whole momentus occasion, even when she gagged and puked back her banana (AKA by MIL as OMG she is choking she is dying). MIL had shpilkes (yiddish for nervous energy freakout) and burst a blood vessel in her eye, FIL sat muttering at end of table at the utter nonsense of it all. She keeps asking me 'Would you like to gag?'. Would you, do you want to gag?’ What can you say to that? We went home and I spent the evening crying on my husbands lap feeling my baby was growing up and I had launched her too quickly into adulthood. Perhaps it was too early for me?? How did everyone else feel? great to read all your posts and could not work out where to post this so chose here, hope its ok! >>>off to puree some peach schnapps and lemonade (and freeze until after I finish breastfeeding of course) Miriam