I had a similar thread on this a few years ago, but will try to give this one a slightly different spin.
So here it goes: I am German-born, but have lived in the UK for a long time and am raising my two kids here. DS2 has just started weaning, and we do a mixture of finger foods and purees / mashed food, same as for DS1 really.
Spoke to my parents last week and my dad very excitedly told me that there is a new trend amongst German mums of feeding babies only finger food. Yes, I say, this has been known here for a long time, and it is called baby-led weaning. When I weaned DS1 in 2014, BLW was hardly known in Germany. I spoke to a German friend at the time who is a sort of health visitor (although her role profile is a bit different) and she had never head of it, despite having two kids herself.
After the phone call, I started looking for articles on BLW in the German press, and lo and behold, they started appearing in 2015. What intrigued me is that the main critique of BLW is that babies may not get the right amount of nutrients with BLW. This seems to be taken very seriously.
Now this may be because BLW is so new in Germany and quite established in the UK. But are there other parenting choices two which responses in other countries were quite different?
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dodi1978 · 02/05/2017 22:24
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