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?

I BLW DS2 but didn't realise that there was a special name for - I just couldn't be arsed making purees. He just ate what me and DS1 were eating.

I eat out LOTS with DC as DH owns 3 restaurants. Nobody ever commented on what my baby was eating. TBH I don't think people care unless the baby is howling. I think that OP might be a little bit paranoid.

Well I didn't BLW - I went the traditonal route of pureed apple and carrot etc. But at 10 months DS had decided he was going down the self-feeding route. And he would have had a bowl in front of him and finger fed himself whatever we put in front of him. And not created much more mess than he does now 7 years later.