To BLW my dd in restaurants without comments or disaproving looks?

[hughjarssss]

I have always done a mixture of spoon feeding and BLW.
When me and dp go out with dd (10 months)to a restaurant, we make sure we order something she can eat as well.

Then we just put it on her highchair tray and let her get on with it.

So if we go to the local carvery, we give dd lots of different vegtables, yesterday we went to a Tapas restaurant and she tried a little bit of what we had (as long as it was suitable). She had fun and tried new and different flavours.

But other people seem to have a problem with feeding her like this, and along with the nasty looks I get, people also make snide comments like 'shouldn't she have a bowl', 'can't she eat from a spoon?'.

This makes me feel like a bad parent, so am I being unreasnable in feeding her like this?

blardy loopy wankers

no its baby led weaning
ie give the kid food to shoev in own mouths
and somehting to do with porrideg pancakes

why not just giev em a banana

oh, so the baby just feeds itself, don't they all ,once they can pick up stuff ?

thast it
it ahs a FOLLOWING m.a.s.

why on earth would people object to that though ? weird

no idea

I don't think BLW has always been the norm, -even if you are amazingly ahead of your time Cod , it is a bit of a movement, suggesting people start their babies on solid finger foods and not work up to that after pureeing everything first.

But, seriously, I always wonder with most threads, when people start an op about how awful people are, and how rude, and how there are so many stares and nasty comments.... where the hell do you people live? Or is everyone just ultra-sensitive?, Am I just lucky?, because I have never come across anyone being anything but lovely and friendly and polite, and interested in my babies, or parenting techniques.....!! And I am quite quite sure I do things that others would not!

I think soup in the highchair tray would be entertaining- give others something to really grouse about

I always thought BLW was when you starved the poor buggers till the World Health Organisation said you were allowed to give them two crumbs of organic lentil pie.

But if it is in a restaurant and you are just giving her food from your plate then it isn't anything specific to BLW is it - it is just giving your baby some food from your plate. Fairly automatic bahaviour ime and something that ds2 (age 5) stills indulges in. Mind you - I do tend to ask for a plate and cutlery for him, but then he isn't in a highchair.

ROFL mumblechum......
whether I agree or not(!)

Dont most parents do BLW anyway.

I think it was peobably that there was a baby in a restaurant.

The people who have come up to you must have had a really boring dinner/lunch companion to even care. So they are the saddos.

I wish I'd known that you can skip the boring old puree bit when ds was a baby - my aunt gave me bloody Annabel Karmel book and my heart sank at the drudgery of preparing little mangled up dishes of slop - how I loved the jars of Hipp

lol at mumble

eys mine even had (gasp) cows milk at 6 months
as was the norm
not an alelrgy in sight in all three of them

BLW hadn't been invented when mine were small.

I did 'bung some food on a plate and let them eat it themselves' with them.

But for some reason, BSFOAPALTEIT was never as well-known as BLW.

I'm surprised people in restaurants comment about how you feed your baby. It wouldn't ever occur to me to say anything.

They're probably not giving you dirty looks you know, they're probably surprised a little baby is feeding itself so well. The comments you list don't seem particularly snide, maybe they were (badly) trying to be helpful. Do you secretly wish someone would start a row with you so you can start telling everyone about how great BLW is?

what rstaurant was it ,out of interest ?

oh,sorry,just looked -tapas and carvery

Ladymuck you're right, probably actually not BLW. Just not using a spoon.

i wonder fi some mumsnetteers are like this

scen 1 a restraurnt

enter mumsnetter dh and kid

mner " well HELLO here we are ayt a restruant wihta baby"

all sit down

mner

" no dh DONT sit there, algernon must sit there to SEE the rest oft he peopel so he can elarn interpersonal skills"

pours water into beaker

mner

"NO DH not water ina sippy cup for my baby he drinks from a MARTINI GLASS"

..." with a OLIVE inteh bottome"

and so on

Cod - you stalker! I do think you might have changed Algie's name for privacy, you beast.

Not actually much of an advocate for BLW, ephrinedaily, as you know if you read my OP. Where I mention that I do actually spoon feed dd as well. I just choose not to do it when we are out as its easier to let dd get on with it.

So i guess the answer to your daft question is NO

lol

Couldn't understand most of that Cod

But FYI dd does drink from a beaker and hasn't tried olives yet.

I think thats what you were trying to say

Cod, have you thought about writing the script for "Mumsnet - The Movie"? Could be on to a winner...

Except no one wpould be able to understand it