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.

CUNT anyone? Maybe I could get Jo Frost or even Gina Ford on board with that one?

PLEB
Can we have that as an official MN acronym?

I think you are being a little U.

As a new parent I was fucking useless and clueless. I thought that jar food or mushing food was the only way you weaned a baby.

I thought that you could 'spoil' a baby with cuddles and the only way to teach a baby to sleep was to let it cry.

I was so fucking relieved to hear of BLW and AP by the time the second one came along. It was horrific going against all my instincts the first time. But I was knew, and a complete novice.

Some people need to hear there are other ways. If that means giving it a name a sticking it in a book, then so be it.

nope i'm stuck

BOPs - Breastfeeding Other Parents

to be fair, all the literature only mentions purees etc. so the concept of using finger foods isn't just something people naturally do to start with anymore.

What literature is this?

Oooh I have another:

BINT

CUNT, by the way, was Childhood Upchuck Nettoyage Treatment

Does nobody trust their own judgement as a parent anymore?

I mean, really?

Do people honestly learn to parent from (expensive) books/militants on the internet?

why would you breastfeed other parents

I believe in mush for babies. And it's more natural in any case. Because animals pre-masticate food for their young. Not suggesting people do this so mush food is the nearest thing.

cleaning up sick? or being sicked on?

You'll like BINT

We should definitely get Jo Frost involved in this one.

Baby Initiated Nap Time

Food is food, can't understand fuss over it. Surely as long as it goes in mouth does it really matter what way it gets there. Personally fed ds with spoon partly because it was quicker and cleaner. And at other times let him get in right old mess.

cleaning it up

The phrase baby led weaning doesn't irritate me as much as baby wearing and attachment parenting. But BLW is a nonsense term because, as a pp has already said, it just means letting the baby choose what they want to eat. Mine is quite clear that she's an independent sod who will only eat certain things off a spoon. Therefore I am truly doing BLW but am not calling it that.

Anyway, what's CUNT stand for?

I honestly believe the term Baby Led Weaning was coined by a well meaning health visitor somewhere, in a bid to explain that ramming food constantly down children's throats is not beneficial. But then the Worthy-smuggintoons made it their own.

As for Baby Wearing. That's just Smugese for "I don't use a pushchair".

All literature, books, whatever have endless recipes for purees.
I agree with Wino! I saw the worst example of jar/puree feeding. Poor little kid in a pushchair being spooned jar food, whilst rest of family sat at the table for a nice restaurant meal. I know this isn't what most peope do but it made me want to find out whether there were alternatives. This book was the answer to my prayers. And if any of the haters bothered to read it, they would know that one of the key themes of the book is that it isn't new. Its been around forever but it hasn't been written down anywhere. You all have the benefit of experience. I did not. Don't understand such hatred when it doesn't impact you, but helps lots of people like me.

Worthy-Smuggingtons

The bastards got auto corrected

Ah, very good. Slow typer, me. By the way yanbu.

And a new brand of organic childrens' clothing:

WANKING

Wearing All Natural - Kids in Natural Garbs

Themobstersknife... "haters"? Really?

Blimey.

I think sometimes the smugness is in your own head. I never felt smug about any of my choices. Just made them to suit myself and my baby.

HoneyDragon that is exactly what has happened.

BLCC
Baby Led Career Choices
On implementing a programme for gels aged 16 plus on the importance of getting a little job that works around what their future DC and DH need from them. Too many gels are growing up expecting to have it all and it's time they were told. After all, it's what baby wants and needs