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To think most people don't understand baby led weaning

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Londonforestmum · 17/06/2024 08:46

I hear so often people say they are doing a mixture of baby led weaning and spoon feeding. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but this is 'traditional weaning', which always advised finger food from 6 months as well as purées. It's not doing a bit of both. BLW means you let your child feed themselves all the time. To say you're doing a bit of both is like saying you're a bit of a vegetarian because you eat some plant based foods alongside meat?

BLW also doesn't mean children don't use a spoon, you can use a spoon straight from the start but you just preload it for them and then let them hold it / put it in (or somewhere near lol) their mouths.

I think maybe people feel under pressure to do BLW but don't want to so they say they're doing a bit of it. There is nothing wrong with doing traditional weaning (purées and finger food) though!

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Hinkuy · 17/06/2024 08:50

Who cares? Why be so pedantic about it?

dastardlyglobetrotter · 17/06/2024 08:49

Why can you not mix it up?

Have I missed something? I have a 10 yr old and a 6 yr old and sometimes they were spoon fed and other times they did the feeding themselves

posts like this are so tedious. Just let people get on with feeding their kids.

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