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?

Mine have baby lions on

they don't work AT ALL, BT. i've never heard of a child who was so slow-witted that they couldn't pull the quick-release tab to, er, quick-release the mat from teh highchair.

I didn't miss Cod.

i did.
i wanted to shit.

Is there anytthing as BORING as discussing BLW versus pureeing and spoon feeding? And who 6are^ these people who make comments in public places to people feeding their babies? Freaks.

I was conned wasn't I...

never used the mats...but those bowls did work with my ys at least...hopefully you are not implying he is slow witted, Aitch??????hm....

there there, don't take it personally. just ignore me. in fact i think i didn't even say it and you are lying. or something.

I don't know who they are.

They are strangers

(that being the main point of the thread)

Oh shit, yeah.
you're right.
sorry.

Suction bowls - designed to hit baby in face when forcibly upped from the highchair tray. Then, and only then, can baby frisbee the bastard thing across the kitchen.

Good parent response - "Oh bollocks. Amelia, if you do that again, you can bloody well clean it up yourself". 6mth old Amelia laughs at you.

Crap parent response - "Oh Amelia, look at the lovely apple & blackberry rainbow pattern you've made across the ceiling". 6yo Amelia flicks the V's at you and punches her sibling.

Does AK have any kids, btw? She looks far too shiny to have had any.

was tehre a quick-release tab, 3andnomore? that's the clincher for most babies. a dirty great flap of plastic sticking out... hmmm, what's this, must pull it... wahey!

the bowl then stays attached to the mat while the mat and bowl contents are swung around the room at head height. no curtain is safe.

Och, she does have a sad story, BT - lost one to SIDS, if I recall correctly.

Oh

She says it was losing hr daughter which lead down the route of looking at nutrition for children

yes, habs. and the second baby came when she was alone in the house so all v terrifying. then he wouldn't eat so she got all obsessed with nutrition etc. it's not hard to see why she'd be an anxious mother, it's just that i think she might be encouraging anxieties in mums who might not otherwise feel that way. but if the choice is jars or AK then she's done some good in the world imo.

That's very true, Aitch.
Just looked it up on wiki and her 1st child died at 3mo of a viral infection, so nowt to do with diet.
How awful, though.

I think that's right Aitch. As a first time mum I wouldn't have felt comfortable BLW from 6 months. But I also knew I didn't want to feed dd jars.
AK was a good alternative for me.

I always felt I got more stares when letting my 2 eat out of jars, and eat Quavers and Friut Shoots for a quiet life... looking back now I can see that no one gave a rat's tooth what I was feeding my kids

Exactly@posie

She says in her book that she wanted some good to come from the short life of her dd so she spent many years researching childhood nutrition

I don't weather they care or not .. but they do feel the need to make comments

well except that if someone is making the effort to come up and comment on what and how you are feeding your child, as they did to me (although i always found it to be positive) then it seems fair to say that they give some kind of a rat's ass. even if it's only just 'oh how nice to see a baby wiring into their food like that'.

feeling desperately inadequate now - my ds STILL repeatedly picks the bowl or plate up and chucks on the floor (having first minutely scrutinsed the non-patterned underside of the thing). "no" does not seem to feature in his lexicon.

I also relied heavily on Hipp jars as well as AK and finger food. I am a baaaaad baaaad mother.