Re: Meat (& dairy) and BLW?

Chicken was one of DS's first foods and now his favourite. We always steam-boil it until it's soft.

We usually offer chicken breasts (methods below) but I know many people give their los a leg bone because the meat there is less easy to fall off as tiny bits. But remember to remove any soft, splint or thin bones first.

We have tried the following methods

1. As meatballs (e.g. + potato, spinach, tofu, vegetable broth)

2. As bits (spread in congee (or porridge), macaroni, etc... [in preloaded spoons])

3. As strips (for being held by the fist)

4. As bite size pieces (only when the pincer grasp has appeared)

We have only offered beef and pork in method 4, after we are quite confident that DS can handle it.

DW has no history of allergies to dairy foods (but her brother does), but I am rather lactose intolerant in recent years. We have given DS butter (first in homemaking bread and then spread on bread and potato), and whole-fat yogurt (dipped by fruit sticks) at the 10th month. We haven't given cheese yet primary because most cheese we can find here contains a lot of sodium [>300mg per 100g food]. We will not give cow milk before 1 year. (Actually diary foods are not parts of our usual diets to obtain calcium and protein, so I'd like cow milk be avoided altogether as much as we can).

The culture in yogurt has modified cow milk and made it less allergenic, so I think that's why it is more acceptable than cow's milk.