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<\/a>\u00a0One of the perhaps biggest deliberate changes I\u2019ve made from Honeybun to Doodle is how I\u2019m approaching solids.\u00a0 With Honeybun\u00a0 I did the typical \u201cAmerican\u201d way: I went to the store and bought a bunch of jars of food and boxes of baby cereal and spent my days painstakingly mixing her meals to just the right consistency and then spent (what felt like) hours spooning the perfectly prepared goo into her mouth.\u00a0 It \u201cworked\u201d for us at the time.\u00a0 It got her fed and we all survived.<\/p>\nWith Sugarplum, my choice of store bought baby food was more limited. With Honeybun I was working 4 jobs and spending 1-4 hours a day in the car so store bought was the only workable option but with Sugarplum I had plenty of wintery days stuck at home to make homemade food.\u00a0 Sugarplum was a giant pain to spoon feed, a few weeks in I declared \u201cSpoon feeding Sugarplum is what I imagine feeding a lizard would be like…\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from getting to spend extra time bonding with my girls, looking at their adorable faces, funny talking to them and spending valuable one on one time with them, I hated every second of spoon feeding.\u00a0 So I made a decision with Doodle:\u00a0 no spoon!<\/p>\n
<\/a>\u00a0There is a theory of baby feeding called \u201cBaby Led Weaning\u201d which focuses on letting the baby decide when an what to eat and letting them finger feed from the start.\u00a0 The idea is to let the baby be in charge of what they want instead of \u201cforce feeding\u201d them by spoon.\u00a0 Both of my girls were given puffed rice at the same time they started rice cereal (in fact Sugarplum had puffed rice the day before we started the cereal).<\/p>\n