The Pickle, my husband and I have had the MOST wonderful time with BLW. We love watching her experiment and try new foods. The excitement on her face, the mess is brilliant, the pictures and video clips we have are just amazing. I get so many comments when we are out and about and my little one is quietly getting on with her meal by herself - I even heard my MIL bragging about BLW. It just made so much sense to me when I found this blog, and read Gill's information - I packed away the AK books and pulled the steamer to the front of the cupboard (doesn't live in there much it is always being used - made a great steamed fish dish the other day, the Pickle positively shovelled it in). My gorgeous daughter has not lost weight being weaned this way, quite the contrary she is a very happy, energetic, mischievous, cheeky, chubbly, rosy cheeked little minx. She has never choked, she gagged a handful of times in the first 2 or 3 weeks, she tries everything I put in front of her (broccoli being the only exception but we're still working on that one), she steals food from our plates, she adores eating out......... Brilliant, just brilliant - baby led weaning has been the best thing, and 7 months down the line in the whole process a HUGE thank you to Gill for her research and Aitch for this blog.