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Original poster

to really not understand why I shouldnt wean DS on purees???

59 replies

dal21 · 26/01/2008 18:14

I mean...really, am I missing something? I have visions of DS living on Innocent smoothies and refusing to eat anything else for the rest of his life.....

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Lulumama · 26/01/2008 18:15

you can wean your baby however you choose

needmorecoffee · 26/01/2008 18:15

whats wrong with purees?

Habbibu · 26/01/2008 18:18

No, no reason why you shouldn't. It's just that you also don't have to if you don't want to. Win win, really.

Original poster
dal21 · 26/01/2008 18:21

maybe i'll go buy shares in Innocent just incase.

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andiemustlosehalfastonemore · 26/01/2008 18:21

you could do what I've done a mixture of mashed and finger foods ie sitting on the fence and doing neither one thing or the other

hatrick · 26/01/2008 18:22

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scottishmummy · 26/01/2008 18:24

wean on whatever DS will eat, the trick is finding what their wee preferences are. Any foods, just no added salt.

Happy Weaning!

BabiesEverywhere · 26/01/2008 18:32

Both methods have plus and minus.

I opted for BLW as to my mind it was lazier. No special food to make, babe just has a small portion of the family tea minus salt and I don't have to feed the baby myself so I could eat tea together with DH and DD.

That said she did choke on an apple at some point and frightened me very badly. However all was well and we are now back to eating at least one apple a day

I do have friends who swear by puree weaning and I must confess I am in awe, when I see bags of handcooked frozen cubes of puree in the freezer.

It is whatever works for you and your little one.

needmorecoffee · 26/01/2008 18:37

ok, whats BLW?

MrsBadger · 26/01/2008 18:40

baby-led weaning

ie all finger food

VictorianSqualor · 26/01/2008 18:40

needmorecoffe, see aitch's blog
It's a way of weaning that suggests at six months(ish) a child can actually chew food and eat it rather than having to be spoon fed purees.
When weaning was done at 4months, by six months babies were often on the finger foods stage anyway, this way just extends the period before weaning (as now reccommended) and skips the purees.

Can be done either way though, but as someone said it is easier to do BLW.

Wendyjayb · 26/01/2008 18:41

I was just thinking the same thing

VictorianSqualor · 26/01/2008 18:41

MrsBadger

needmorecoffee · 26/01/2008 18:53

oh. Didn't have no posh names when my older 3 were little
And dd2 still can't chew at 4.

Original poster
dal21 · 26/01/2008 18:56

Ahhh...BLW.

I was intrigued by this and looked into it. However am weaning DS before the 26 weeks so decided purees was the way forward at this stage.

What I really dont understand is that there seem to be some threads on mnet where pureeing gets a bad press. Genuinely - is there any evidence that shows that weaning on purees is not good for DS?

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FrannyandZooey · 26/01/2008 18:57

is it attractive to you because you've done purees before? Some people just see BLW as easy and advantageous, amongst other things

who is making you feel like you shouldn't do purees?

Original poster
dal21 · 26/01/2008 18:58

Oh and before anyone asks, I know all about risks of weaning before 26 weeks, have done so with complete consultation with my GP.

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MrsBadger · 26/01/2008 18:58

nope, tis just less hassle for us.

plenty of evidence that weaning before 26wks may be less than ideal though

Original poster
dal21 · 26/01/2008 18:59

f&z - xpost!

Pureeing is no hassle whatsoever, while I am cooking our things, just take an extra 20-30 mins to steam and puree batches of fruit/ veg.

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chipmonkey · 26/01/2008 19:00

Not bad for them at all! I have to say I am very fond of making my purees. Some of them are lovely as well! I used to make more than one portion at a time for ds3 but sometimes ate a lot of what I was supposed to freeze!

VictorianSqualor · 26/01/2008 19:02

I dont know about early weaning, so i dont know if feeding purees is better if you do it early or not.

FrannyandZooey · 26/01/2008 19:03

Ok, personally anything that takes me an extra 20 - 30 mins is classed as HASSLE

[slob]

helibee · 26/01/2008 19:06

just to add to the mix, my sil did blw and her toddler is the fussiest eater as she let him just eat what he wanted rather than introduce him to new tastes and textures via different methods.

personally i think a mix of both is the best-start with some purees and give finger foods as well-your baby needs to learn to associate taste with what the food looks like.

if your baby has eczema(as mine has) or of there is a history of allergies in the family, just take things slowly and introduce foods one at a time so that allergies can be identified much more easily.

most of all just enjoy this new stage.

p.s just a thought: for years babies were weaned by purees, then chunks, then solids and most of the population can eat food properly as adults!

Original poster
dal21 · 26/01/2008 19:07

lol chipmonkey! shame on you - stealing your DC's food!

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MrsBadger · 26/01/2008 19:08

(now I am an old hippy but that just makes me shudder - "introducing him to new tastes and textures via different methods." sounds suspiciously like "distracting him while shovelling in stuff he doesn't like"...)

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