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.

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....

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

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

What is it anyway?

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!

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

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.

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....

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

really?

That honestly surprises me.

Big Loada Wank?

Bollocky Lady Waffle?

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

Yabu to be so aggressive about it though.

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.

Ha!!!!

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

More like baby led gorging than weaning...

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).

Baby wearing, blw , attachment parenting, cosleeping
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh

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

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

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