"you just have to pretend you're enjoying yourself when inside you're just pooping your pants" absolute favorite! hahaha im expecting and baby girl is coming in a couple weeks. :) I have been binging Shayla's videos!!!
PSA to anyone who doesn’t know - I believe Baby led weaning isn’t supposed to start until minimum 6 months. Some people introduce purées or “solids” as young as 4 months but that’s not really recommended either. 6 months is usually when you should consider starting.
i loved anything you could make into a french fry or wedge shape, like you said - something they can grab with their whole fist and gnaw on. and yeah - *steam stuff or make sure it's squishable*. my oldest kid's first food ever was a broccoli tree (floret and stalk). other early foods she tried were "french fries/wedges" of shredded chicken, mango, banana, apple, carrot, pickle, egg cut into strips. also gave her jar tops (like the kind you get with spaghetti sauce) with applesauce, smooshed sweet potatoes, or yogurt in them to eat with a baby spoon. like bitty plates. enough for her to eventually get some into her mouth but not enough to make a huge mess. and my favorite phrase - "food before one is just for fun." i would imagine that all the food i was putting in front of her was eventually going to go into the trash. then hell, anything she actually ate was cool. less stress about amounts. the best gagging advice i got - look at their eyes. if they're looking mostly bored and there's noise, it's gagging. if their eyes get big and there's no noise, they're likely choking.
Omg I feel like you are my brain talking out loud for me! 😂 thank you for this vid! Now I feel hmmmm… a bit more confident but still nervous, just a tad lol
Hello 👋 from New Zealand 🇳🇿 And Thank you!!!!! For this video!!! You really have had ease my mind and will definitely look into the info you suggested =)
This was SOOOO extremely helpful. My daughter just turned 4 months today and I have been doing a bunch of research to prep for this next stage. Thank you!!! 💜
Shayla, I swear... you amaze me! My kids are all in their 20's, so I am done with babies for now. I WISH I had a mommy like you to learn from. I love your approach. When I was raising my babies there was NOTHING to explore other than what a friend or cousin recommended. (Not that I followed them as a LAW) Your way of sharing is both inspiring and a lot of common sense! It's beautiful and helpful on every level! I truly believe you have wisdom that could and will help any mommy who is watching.
Choking is my number one fear 😟 My 3rd child is 13 months old right now and he's eating solids much later than my other two were at his age. I know it's all because of my fear of him Choking. Your video was helpful!
I can totally recommend Solid Starts. It is an excellent resource that explains how babies should start eating solids from a professional/medical perspective. Just very clearly explaining what to look for when your baby is ready. Lots of content on Instagram for free and it does really well to include food from other cultures.
OMG! So glad you posted this video, I was looking into baby led weaning yesterday to start the process with my 4mo baby (per ped. Instructions )and was already freaking out.
I have never appreciated or related to a video so deeply. I have a 7 month old and we’ve done purées since about 4.5 months. She’s showing some interest in food and we did try the BLW “oh here’s an avocado. *takes a massive bite* nope. Never mind. Not doing that.” So now we’re at the introducing her to food a little at a time and she’s loved everything. She does gag a little, but it has become less and less common. Also the squishing food between my fingers. Totally relate to that. I’ve resolved to really take it slow despite how excited I am to be able to eventually just give her food off my plate. This video makes me feel so much better about that decision.
Hey, I just found your channel because I was looking up hypnobirthing stuff even though I’ve already had a baby and am not pregnant with a second one at the moment. Lol. But I love your channel! You’re hilarious! Your birth story was great. And I’m also from Minnesota so I just got excited when I saw that.
We’re at 9 weeks now so I LOVE seeing everything we have to look forward to. Definitely going to be using our ninja pressure cooker and just making everything small and squishy. She loves putting her hands in her mouth so it’ll be interesting to see when she’s sitting up and holding things... I’ll swoop in with the food 😅
We're starting BLW in about two weeks, this video was super helpful! We also cloth diaper so I'm looking forward to you video about your new cloth routine since starting BLW.
Just started giving my baby mashed up foods... not that he’s really eating it but I’m dreading the solids poops! Breastfed cloth diapers are the easiest!
This is SO helpful. People are like oh the food stage is so fun but I have an anxiety attack with BLW. What’s SO difficult is my baby gags silently. I’m still trying to figure out how I can feel ok with her having solids.
Absolutely loved your video !!! I’m going to start solids in about two months and I’m already anxious 😬 I love how you explain how you started! Ugh 🥴🥴🥴
My bestie started BLW with a slice of cheese pizza at about 7 months. He gummed it, mostly ate the sauce and cheese and soft parts of the crust. Still one of his favorites lol.
I Loveeeee this video so much and I have to say I love you too 😭😭 I stress soo much about this cause really don’t want my princess to choke but you made me feel soo much better about solids . . Appreciate this video soo much ❤️ God bless you
We exclusivly breast fed until 6mos. The day she turned 6 mos I just gave her some boiled carrot sticks and made sure they were soft enough. We picked a new food every 3 days. Daycare was confused that we didn't do purees, so I had to send what I wanted her to eat. I don't know why we were so chill about it, but everything I looked into said she would gag, so when she gaged I figured we were doing it right?
Can you share how your cloth diaper routine has changed since you stated solid food? Do you use the toilet sprayers or bamboo liners? Is the washing routine different?
this might be a little excessive but if you want to avoid the added sugar in prepackaged peeled oranges, you can buy peptic enzyme drops that dissolve the membranes of citrus fruits. you just rinse it off. not a parent, I just like grapefruit without membranes
Haha omg our first time experience with trying BLW went the exact same way. Here you g- OMG NOPE NOPE LET ME ScRAPE THAT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH GIVE IT BACK NO!
It’s like you read my mind I’m 25 weeks pregnant and I’m like humm should I take a class so she doesn’t choke? This was helpful thank goodness everything I eat has been juice water, greens, vegetables, she’s going to be an expensive child. Thank you this video was helpful ❤️🥰
I went through this with my first baby! Now with my second baby I'm not so scared. Now they are saying introduce peanutbutter at 6 months. I was like "Wha"? My biggest problem now is having a 4-year-old leaving little bits of things everywhere and constantly picking up after her so there's not choking hazards on the floor for baby. I tossed all the toys that had little pieces to them.
My baby is 1yo and he just doesn’t like finger foods that much. He smushes it and it’s so difficult because I want him to eat table food like us but it just doesn’t work! He gags on literally everything and even though he’s always had rusk and puffs which he chows down - but the rest he just chokes on the rest! He prefers purées and I really don’t know what else to do… any advice? First baby here.
He’s not ready! No problem, let him have the purées, give him things that get soft like purée like raspberries, or soft avocado. But don’t stress, if he’s not ready just give him more time :) I was so worried when aj wasn’t ready at 6 months and she’s a fantastic eater. Unless your dr is concerned just take it slow, you’ve got this!
@@heyshayla thank you for your response, I know this is what I needed to hear. I will mention it to my doctor because I’d like him to make sure there’s no physiological issue (which I doubt). By the way, my son LOVES food. He has a whole plate of thickly puréed veggie soup and loves vegetables. My son however was not interested/ready at 6 months either. I feel he just prefers the simplicity of eating or swallowing purées - which is fine I mean he is only a baby still! There’s just so much pressure for a baby so small to be holding a piece of chicken drumstick and eating it with all of its complexities - the risk of choking is too high for me. I’m just going to continue introducing finger foods (some of which he is very good at) here and there as snacks, for example squishy veg and manageable fruits and when he is ready I’ll do the full transition. No need to force it, because it just makes it hard for him. It’s always the external pressure making us mothers uncomfortable! I literally couldn’t agree more with your video - translated my feelings ❤️ To anyone experiencing the same, my son loves his milk even in conjunction with lots of food - which I will not take away from him (rather I have reduced to 4 bottles or so in 24 hours) it’s fine, go at your own child’s rhythm.
This video almost made me feel bad that I worried so little about my babies and weaning 😂 what's wrong with me?! I literally just gave them food and let them go crazy with it. I guess it helps that my husbands a doctor and was totally chill so I just went along with it.
@@heyshayla my mom was also very jumpy about choking so I think I had to be extra nonchalant for her sake. I love the journey youve been on with BLW and how you've forced yourself to trust her. Especially loved you saying you were holding her back 😂
My daughter is allergic to dairy, soya, eggs, oat and coconut through my breastmilk, not gonna lie its kind of ruined the fun of weaning and I'm constantly assessing every poop and rash. I get the partner being more stressed too, my husband drives me mad, I have to feed her now when he's not home because he's constantly pulling food away from her or interrupting her when she's doing perfectly fine 😂 Today she had toast sticks with banana, gagged then vomited all over her tray and went straight back at it. I was just like "ah, cute, thanks"
My son didn’t even get his first set of teeth until he was 11months meanwhile the lady is wic was judging me for not giving him solids...I’m still trying but doing horribly.
I admit I find your fear somewhat surprising. I have a sister 10 years younger and I was an au pair at 22 for a family with an infant in Switzerland and so on. Which means I‘ve been exposed to the process of feeding babies for just about forever. I‘ve had lots of gagging babies, but never had to do the heimlich. I have had go do a finger swipe through the mouth to pull something out, but that was more with toddlers chewing something into a long string. I had a 9 month old as soon as we introduced finger foods completely refuse to be spoon feed. She wanted to do it all herself and baking whole squashes in the oven till soft was so easy. We made our own baby food for the most part. An immersion blender works great for this, especially if you want pureed with more texture to them. I also love the bibs that cover the arms for clean up. Good luck with this!
Thanks for letting me know, I did realize I said cpr instead of Heinrich and fixed it on the screen. But I’m no expert here which I also stated, and it sounds like you know a lot. Not a fan of shaming but I do love some knowledge so I’d love to know the other stuff wrong.
Iam so happy Iam not the only one that has anxiety when it comes to feeding my little one . Thanks for the tips!
"you just have to pretend you're enjoying yourself when inside you're just pooping your pants" absolute favorite! hahaha im expecting and baby girl is coming in a couple weeks. :) I have been binging Shayla's videos!!!
Same! Except my baby's not coming until July ... haha!
My baby is coming next week. It’s a marathon of videos👌
Shayla! Why are you not at 100K yet? You have the BEST content, so relevant and honest I love it. Thank you!
You’re so sweet, well get there 🙌
@@heyshayla I am sure you will! I am rooting for you :)
PSA to anyone who doesn’t know - I believe Baby led weaning isn’t supposed to start until minimum 6 months.
Some people introduce purées or “solids” as young as 4 months but that’s not really recommended either. 6 months is usually when you should consider starting.
Agreed!
you’re so relatable! my biggest fear is choking, if my baby coughs I panic until he takes his next breath
Exaaaaaactly!!!!!
This is currently me with my 3 month old I feel so stressed all day
hahah "because it looks like... a banana and two eggs" amazing
Currently going through the hell that starting solids is and i loved watching your video, laughed a lot. Great tips thank you
i loved anything you could make into a french fry or wedge shape, like you said - something they can grab with their whole fist and gnaw on. and yeah - *steam stuff or make sure it's squishable*. my oldest kid's first food ever was a broccoli tree (floret and stalk).
other early foods she tried were "french fries/wedges" of shredded chicken, mango, banana, apple, carrot, pickle, egg cut into strips. also gave her jar tops (like the kind you get with spaghetti sauce) with applesauce, smooshed sweet potatoes, or yogurt in them to eat with a baby spoon. like bitty plates. enough for her to eventually get some into her mouth but not enough to make a huge mess.
and my favorite phrase - "food before one is just for fun." i would imagine that all the food i was putting in front of her was eventually going to go into the trash. then hell, anything she actually ate was cool. less stress about amounts.
the best gagging advice i got - look at their eyes. if they're looking mostly bored and there's noise, it's gagging. if their eyes get big and there's no noise, they're likely choking.
Omg I feel like you are my brain talking out loud for me! 😂 thank you for this vid! Now I feel hmmmm… a bit more confident but still nervous, just a tad lol
Hello 👋 from New Zealand 🇳🇿
And Thank you!!!!! For this video!!!
You really have had ease my mind and will definitely look into the info you suggested =)
This was SOOOO extremely helpful. My daughter just turned 4 months today and I have been doing a bunch of research to prep for this next stage. Thank you!!! 💜
Yay so glad to hear!!
Shayla, I swear... you amaze me! My kids are all in their 20's, so I am done with babies for now. I WISH I had a mommy like you to learn from. I love your approach. When I was raising my babies there was NOTHING to explore other than what a friend or cousin recommended. (Not that I followed them as a LAW) Your way of sharing is both inspiring and a lot of common sense! It's beautiful and helpful on every level! I truly believe you have wisdom that could and will help any mommy who is watching.
I’ve heard pickles are really good for when they start teething. The vinegar helps numb their gums I guess
I feel this so bad 😂🙈. Same feelings same thoughts. Thank you!
Choking is my number one fear 😟
My 3rd child is 13 months old right now and he's eating solids much later than my other two were at his age. I know it's all because of my fear of him Choking. Your video was helpful!
How did everything go. I'm later with my oldest as well. Idk where to start..
I can totally recommend Solid Starts. It is an excellent resource that explains how babies should start eating solids from a professional/medical perspective. Just very clearly explaining what to look for when your baby is ready. Lots of content on Instagram for free and it does really well to include food from other cultures.
Blog: www.heyshayla.com/slow-baby-led-weaning/
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OMG! So glad you posted this video, I was looking into baby led weaning yesterday to start the process with my 4mo baby (per ped. Instructions )and was already freaking out.
Read your baby. 4 months is early from what I’m learning!
I have never appreciated or related to a video so deeply. I have a 7 month old and we’ve done purées since about 4.5 months. She’s showing some interest in food and we did try the BLW “oh here’s an avocado. *takes a massive bite* nope. Never mind. Not doing that.” So now we’re at the introducing her to food a little at a time and she’s loved everything. She does gag a little, but it has become less and less common. Also the squishing food between my fingers. Totally relate to that. I’ve resolved to really take it slow despite how excited I am to be able to eventually just give her food off my plate. This video makes me feel so much better about that decision.
Hey, I just found your channel because I was looking up hypnobirthing stuff even though I’ve already had a baby and am not pregnant with a second one at the moment. Lol. But I love your channel! You’re hilarious! Your birth story was great. And I’m also from Minnesota so I just got excited when I saw that.
Yay!!! Fellow Minnesotan!
Thank you so much for this video! It was extremely comforting & helpful.
We’re at 9 weeks now so I LOVE seeing everything we have to look forward to. Definitely going to be using our ninja pressure cooker and just making everything small and squishy. She loves putting her hands in her mouth so it’ll be interesting to see when she’s sitting up and holding things... I’ll swoop in with the food 😅
We're starting BLW in about two weeks, this video was super helpful! We also cloth diaper so I'm looking forward to you video about your new cloth routine since starting BLW.
Just started giving my baby mashed up foods... not that he’s really eating it but I’m dreading the solids poops! Breastfed cloth diapers are the easiest!
Agreed!!
That’s what the next video is about!
This is SO helpful. People are like oh the food stage is so fun but I have an anxiety attack with BLW. What’s SO difficult is my baby gags silently. I’m still trying to figure out how I can feel ok with her having solids.
First 18 seconds: literally my brain!
I had to stop trying BLW, it stressed me SO BAD!
Not let's see what the rest of the video says...
Thank you so much for sharing so much knowledge
My second baby is ready for food and I’ve started but I’m terrified 😢 LIKE TERRiFIED!!
I appreciate and enjoy your content SO much! Thanks for putting it out there for us to learn and enjoy. 😄
You’re so sweet!!!
Absolutely loved your video !!! I’m going to start solids in about two months and I’m already anxious 😬 I love how you explain how you started! Ugh 🥴🥴🥴
My bestie started BLW with a slice of cheese pizza at about 7 months. He gummed it, mostly ate the sauce and cheese and soft parts of the crust. Still one of his favorites lol.
I Loveeeee this video so much and I have to say I love you too 😭😭 I stress soo much about this cause really don’t want my princess to choke but you made me feel soo much better about solids . . Appreciate this video soo much ❤️ God bless you
Love you .., I am a Nana now but I laugh with you every video .... go momma ❤
You are so entertaining to watch and I love your content!!
Your videos are SO helpful!!
We exclusivly breast fed until 6mos. The day she turned 6 mos I just gave her some boiled carrot sticks and made sure they were soft enough. We picked a new food every 3 days. Daycare was confused that we didn't do purees, so I had to send what I wanted her to eat. I don't know why we were so chill about it, but everything I looked into said she would gag, so when she gaged I figured we were doing it right?
OMGGG haha you’re my hero.
I have been waiting for this video!!! HAHA. Thank you!! So helpful!!! Love your videos!
You’re the best! I’ve been loving all your videos! I have a 7 month old and it’s so good and so similar to all of my approaches!
Can you share how your cloth diaper routine has changed since you stated solid food? Do you use the toilet sprayers or bamboo liners? Is the washing routine different?
THIS!!
That’s next up!!
This video was so helpful! My baby’s due in May and I’m already nervous for feeding.
My baby started at 3- 3.5month to start SO much interest in food. I’m sorry for that i can’t give hin any yet but soon he can have some😅
wow i was just thinking about this topic the other day!
PERFECT!! It's such a scary thing to do, but we did it and I wanted to share some things to hopefully help!
Mini pancakes were a hit with my girl. Just took my basic pancake recipe and made little "silver dollar " sized pancakes.
Looking forward to this one! 🙌
this might be a little excessive but if you want to avoid the added sugar in prepackaged peeled oranges, you can buy peptic enzyme drops that dissolve the membranes of citrus fruits. you just rinse it off. not a parent, I just like grapefruit without membranes
Haha I love this! The ones we buy have no added sugar!
Haha omg our first time experience with trying BLW went the exact same way.
Here you g- OMG NOPE NOPE LET ME ScRAPE THAT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH GIVE IT BACK NO!
Hahaha right?! The slow build up is WAAAAY better
Looks like it’s a good idea to take something with peanuts to doctor just in case of allergy
It’s like you read my mind I’m 25 weeks pregnant and I’m like humm should I take a class so she doesn’t choke? This was helpful thank goodness everything I eat has been juice water, greens, vegetables, she’s going to be an expensive child. Thank you this video was helpful ❤️🥰
I went through this with my first baby!
Now with my second baby I'm not so scared. Now they are saying introduce peanutbutter at 6 months. I was like "Wha"? My biggest problem now is having a 4-year-old leaving little bits of things everywhere and constantly picking up after her so there's not choking hazards on the floor for baby. I tossed all the toys that had little pieces to them.
Cultural differences are so funny. Im portuguese and i have never heard of feeding babies peanut butter or pickles 😂
I am so nervous with self feeding my nine month old she has no teeth and I gave her some teething foods and she gags and makes my anxiety sky rocket
Maybe she’s not ready! No rush
My baby is 1yo and he just doesn’t like finger foods that much. He smushes it and it’s so difficult because I want him to eat table food like us but it just doesn’t work! He gags on literally everything and even though he’s always had rusk and puffs which he chows down - but the rest he just chokes on the rest! He prefers purées and I really don’t know what else to do… any advice? First baby here.
He’s not ready! No problem, let him have the purées, give him things that get soft like purée like raspberries, or soft avocado. But don’t stress, if he’s not ready just give him more time :)
I was so worried when aj wasn’t ready at 6 months and she’s a fantastic eater.
Unless your dr is concerned just take it slow, you’ve got this!
@@heyshayla thank you for your response, I know this is what I needed to hear. I will mention it to my doctor because I’d like him to make sure there’s no physiological issue (which I doubt). By the way, my son LOVES food. He has a whole plate of thickly puréed veggie soup and loves vegetables. My son however was not interested/ready at 6 months either. I feel he just prefers the simplicity of eating or swallowing purées - which is fine I mean he is only a baby still!
There’s just so much pressure for a baby so small to be holding a piece of chicken drumstick and eating it with all of its complexities - the risk of choking is too high for me. I’m just going to continue introducing finger foods (some of which he is very good at) here and there as snacks, for example squishy veg and manageable fruits and when he is ready I’ll do the full transition. No need to force it, because it just makes it hard for him. It’s always the external pressure making us mothers uncomfortable! I literally couldn’t agree more with your video - translated my feelings ❤️
To anyone experiencing the same, my son loves his milk even in conjunction with lots of food - which I will not take away from him (rather I have reduced to 4 bottles or so in 24 hours) it’s fine, go at your own child’s rhythm.
This video almost made me feel bad that I worried so little about my babies and weaning 😂 what's wrong with me?! I literally just gave them food and let them go crazy with it. I guess it helps that my husbands a doctor and was totally chill so I just went along with it.
No way that’s fantastic!!
@@heyshayla my mom was also very jumpy about choking so I think I had to be extra nonchalant for her sake. I love the journey youve been on with BLW and how you've forced yourself to trust her. Especially loved you saying you were holding her back 😂
My daughter is allergic to dairy, soya, eggs, oat and coconut through my breastmilk, not gonna lie its kind of ruined the fun of weaning and I'm constantly assessing every poop and rash. I get the partner being more stressed too, my husband drives me mad, I have to feed her now when he's not home because he's constantly pulling food away from her or interrupting her when she's doing perfectly fine 😂 Today she had toast sticks with banana, gagged then vomited all over her tray and went straight back at it. I was just like "ah, cute, thanks"
You would love solidstarts on Instagram! Amazing resource for BLW, I would say the best
So many people have recommended this!! Thank you
My son didn’t even get his first set of teeth until he was 11months meanwhile the lady is wic was judging me for not giving him solids...I’m still trying but doing horribly.
You got this mama!!
@@sarapella7752 thank you so much hun.
Im afraid my 4 year old will choke on food.. i can't imageni give my 4 month old a solid to control and eat himself
I admit I find your fear somewhat surprising. I have a sister 10 years younger and I was an au pair at 22 for a family with an infant in Switzerland and so on. Which means I‘ve been exposed to the process of feeding babies for just about forever. I‘ve had lots of gagging babies, but never had to do the heimlich. I have had go do a finger swipe through the mouth to pull something out, but that was more with toddlers chewing something into a long string. I had a 9 month old as soon as we introduced finger foods completely refuse to be spoon feed. She wanted to do it all herself and baking whole squashes in the oven till soft was so easy. We made our own baby food for the most part. An immersion blender works great for this, especially if you want pureed with more texture to them. I also love the bibs that cover the arms for clean up. Good luck with this!
You don’t do CPR on a choking victim until/unless they are unresponsive. You do the Heimlich maneuver for someone choking.
Thanks for letting me know,
I did realize I said cpr instead of Heinrich and fixed it on the screen.
But I’m no expert here which I also stated, and it sounds like you know a lot.
Not a fan of shaming but I do love some knowledge so I’d love to know the other stuff wrong.
@@heyshayla I wasn’t shaming AT ALL! I fixed my comment to remove the other portion!
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