I'm sure this has been done before but...

[LoopsInHoops]

Fuck off with your BLW wankery. It's feeding your frigging baby. Normal food. Why does it need a crappy name? So new mums who do it feel special, and those who don't feel like outsiders?

It's not a THING.

[WorraLiberty]

Blimey, who knew it could make someone so angry?

YANBU though

It's always been called 'finger foods'

There I said it and you know what? I'd say it again....

[pictish]

Yanbu.
To me it's simply 'weaning'.

[sydlexic]

I did attachment parenting and BLW before they were even invented.

[BumpingFuglies]

What is it anyway?

[CheCazzo]

YANBU - as I said on another thread (perhaps a little forcefully! ) - this kind of wordy nonsense just boils my piss. I can't think of any justification for it except to make the parent feel like a dog with two cocks about how frightfully bang-on they are. Actually - breaking news people - it makes you sound like your brain is made of baby rice!

[HecateWhoopass]

isn't it just giving them stuff and letting them try to get it in their mouths, as opposed to spooning stuff in yourself?

Mine are teens now, so it's a long time ago, but I'm fairly sure it's always been done that way, hasn't it? bit of feeding them, bit of watching them shove a strip of toast up their nose

I mean, it doesn't bother me if people want to make a big thing about it. I think when you're actually weaning your child it IS a big thing to you. But I don't know how it's any different from what's always been done.

Am prepared to be told just how wrong I am and why, though

[RuleBritannia]

Right. For those of us who have grown up children, what is BLW? Ah! Baby Led Weaning?

We were statying with my parents when my son was 5 months old and I fed him a jar of baby food. He wanted more so I gave him half a jar. He wanted more so I gave him the second half of the jar. He wanted more and he finished up with a large tin of Ambrosia creamed rice inside him as well, spooned out of the tin. Had I been starving him? Since then, he has always eaten like a horse.

[JohnBender88]

I HATE seeing all those "signatures" on another (fluffy as fuck) forum. "Mummy to cloth bummed, BF, BLW, co-sleeping, baby wearing enter ridiculous hippy name"

Excuse me whilst I put my Aptamil loving, self settling, pampers wearing baby down to applaud you....

[WorraLiberty]

[HollyBerryBush]

This is the first commn sense thread I think I've seen on MN

[HecateWhoopass]

really?

That honestly surprises me.

[BumpingFuglies]

Big Loada Wank?

[BumpingFuglies]

Bollocky Lady Waffle?

[wigglesrock]

My granny was doing it with her kids and she's 100

[noddyholder]

Yabu to be so aggressive about it though.

[LoopsInHoops]

Do you think it's just so some people feel like speshul mummies and daddies?

Or do people actually read the book? Yes, there is, indeed, not only a book but a website too. Trademarked. Someone has trademarked bloody baby feeding.

[FairhairedandFrustrated]

Ha!!!!

My dd ate anything that wasn't tied down, including the toilet brush

More like baby led gorging than weaning...

[LoopsInHoops]

No no, aggressive would be if I were ramming it down your throat. For BLW, you have to ram it down your own (if you're a baby).

[manormuppet]

Baby wearing, blw , attachment parenting, cosleeping
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh

[KentuckyFriedChildren]

Ha I didnt know what blw was when I had my first but I'm pretty sure I did it. I called it weaning though. I have a pic of the results on my profile :o

[noddyholder]

Fuck off,wankery,frigging,crappy sounds pretty aggressive to me. Its just a new name for a traditional thing

[LoopsInHoops]

No, words aren't aggressive. They might be offensive to delicate flowers, but they won't hurt you.