Wow I had no idea you could microwave sweetcorn while still on the cob, brilliant idea! New to this site (son hitting the six month mark next weekend so familiarising myself with how BLW works - you'll love to hear that my GP recommended it! He's my second so possibly more relaxed about the whole idea than I might have been first time round (Annabel Karmel was my weaning goddess and stuck to her timetables of mush rigidly, real hassle not doing that again!) - although from looking at alot of my friends with two I'd say that second babies often naturally do BLW - my niece has been feeding herself from the word go - simply because by the time one's sat down to start feeding them they inevitably have got bored and started helping themselves! Just seen on one of the postings that you now have a forum which I will have a look at too but for now working my way through all these postings as am rather enjoying the reading.