Starting weaning at nursery.

[MotherofHobbit]

DS (currently 16 weeks) will be starting nursery full time at just before six months as I have to go back to work.
I definitely would prefer to do BLW but this is obviously not practical for the nursery who will spoon feed puree.

I'm wondering whether to start spoon feeding him myself a few weeks early so he can get used to the idea from me. Nursery'll be enough of an adjustment for him without strange people trying to put things in his mouth.

Has anyone else been in the same position where baby is due to wean at the same as nursery time? What did you do?

this is exactly what i did. dd is 23 weeks and will be starting nursery next week. I go back to work the week after. I didn't want too many changes happening at the same time so we started her on solids at about 18 weeks and have slowly progressed through stage 1 foods.

Also, and i might be being a bit precious here, as her mother i wanted to be the one to wean her, not the nursery iykwim.

If she wasn't ready for it then I obviously would have stopped and tried later but she was and has embraced solid food.

why would blw be impractical in a nursery?

I would have thought it would be better than home as they would be cooking healthy/no salt food for the toddlers anyway

DS was at nursery when he started solids, and they were quite happy to plonk toddler food in front of him. I did give him his first food though.

It's really not stressful for babies though - they see the others getting food at nursery and want it too- so no need bto wean early imo

DD's nursery were happy to carry on the BLW I'd started at home. I just sent in suitable food and they popped it in front of her.

Why don't you start with solids at breakfast or the evening if you want to start her off and gradually phase it in to nursery.

Any decent nursery should be able to accomodate BLW - after all they presumably cook 'normal' food for the older kids. Just ask for your DS to have that instead.

For what it's worth I BLW'd Ds2 and I'd definitely never go back to purees again!