gosh it feels like it was years ago and dd is only 10 months this week! i was amazed at just how quickly dd took to food. her first food was a banana. her technique was to hold it against her mouth with one hand (she didn't know about holding things with two hands at that point!) and just sort of squeezing it against her gums and nibbling it. then she'd drop it, over and over, and just kept grabbing it again and squeezing it against her mouth. her poos became proper roll off the nappy poos alarmingly quickly, very little undigested food other than fruit and vegetable skin. lots of trumping, particularly as weaning happened around the same time she was experimenting with being on all fours, so lots of bending, bottom in air....and biiiiiig trumps. bless her. she doesn't trump very much now though. i remember going on about blw when dd was maybe 4 months old, telling all the family it'd be the way we'd do things. and everyone, including dh to a certain extent, kind of shrugged it off...i guess thinking ok yes humour her, it's a phase, she'll spoon feed along with the rest of us. well that was all put to bed when dd was tucking into full christmas dinner, lamb, turkey, yorkshire puds, sprouts, the lot, at 7 months old. all the family sat round the table in complete shock at how much she ate and how she happily laughed her way through her dinner. now the funniest thing is going out to eat with PIL. how they want dd seated so the WHOLE cafe can see her, talking very loudly about how YOUNG she is, and how NICELY she eats.....oh the shame.....