BLW ?!?

[Soyouare2faced]

Am I the only parent to wonder what this new age BLW is ?? (Ok maybe not THAT new)
Just seems like one messy choking hazard to me !!

So if you make a cheese sandwich for yourself, you give them some. You just have to cut down on salt which isn't difficult.

Suggesting giving a baby a cheese sandwich and then saying you need to cut down on salt is a contradiction ,seeing as both bread and cheese are very high in salt.

I don't see what all the fuss is about blw, it's just a trend with a fancy name. A couple of years down the line and no-one will be able to tell the difference between a child that was fed purees and one that did blw, so do whatever feels right.

You look at salt totals across a week, rather than at each individual meal. Plus it depends on the bread and cheese. Some cheeses are lower in salt than others, I used a lot of emmental and similar which have lower salt. It isn't hard to judge salt levels once you get used to checking.

I've never checked salt levels in anything. I just never added any.
The baby isn't going to explode and die if they have a bit more salt one day than they do others scrum

scrumptious I mean adding salt to food. And not feeding baby salt and vinegar crisps! hahaha
Salt is in a lot of foods like cheese but you just get used to buying cheese with lower salt. And bread is fine. There's nothing wrong with giving a baby a bit of a cheese sandwich 😂

If you avoided everything which contained salt, what would you feed them?!

For instance I use sandwich thins then 30g of cheese is 0.5g salt (wouldn't use 30g probably)

Therefore a cheese sandwich is doable, maybe served with some fruit.

We've made some adjustments to our food to make most things we buy baby friendly.

I just tried with some foods I felt comfortable with for both of us, just stared at it and cried

If she's used to being spoonfed, then I might feed her so she's not really hungry, and leave the finger food on her tray whilst you do so. Then let her have a play with it when you're eating your lunch. It may take a while for her to be interested and explore it with her hands.

I think she was still tired, she's asleep again. Will try late

Babies should not have more than 1 g of salt a day, and that's hard to achieve on an average diet. I'm just saying that many people aren't aware of hidden salt content, so unless you cook without any salt at all, you need to be very careful about what you're giving your baby.

Thanks everyone! Just put strawberries and banana in front of ds, he picked up the strawberry and put it straight in his mouth! Promptly spat it out and done his "that's sour!" Face.

Try grapes they are a huge favourite for kids... Obviously but then in half or even quarters... I used to cut grapes in half but then I noticed in LO poo he never chewed his grapes!! Lol (sorry to be graphic)

He also loves banana ..plus it is nice and soft for babies

Watermelon is a good one too obviously after all the pips are taken out lol