Spoon feed babies are more likely to become obese

[clairikins]

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2535141/Spoon-fed-babies-likely-overweight-bodies-dont-recognise-full.html

I may have to show this to my HV

I think spoon feeding is more mess control, and so the parent knows how much the child has eaten.

I have to do that with my 1 year old he just turns into a big baby when he's poorly if i didn't spoon feed he would through hand food away and then my only option would be bottle feeding,which is worse.
My eldest didn't though , different strokes.
baby food is in age appropriate jars i do struggle to see how someone could actually manage to overfeed a child hugely on baby food.
I think the milk weaning to cows milk is more of a problem.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrghhhhhh! Just about everyone my age was spoon fed. MiL didn't let my husband feed himself till he was practically 4! (too much mess apparently). No signs of him even being slightly overweight though, even though he can eat for England .

Yes, Capsium, and I was weaned at 6 weeks. Imagine me trying to feed myself. I am slim and healthy, as are my two siblings.

This article is absolute tosh, and I know it's the DM but it's pissed me off too. The fussiest child I have ever met happens to have done the BLW and mine were spoon fed and will eat anything! My DC are also slim and are perfectly capable of knowing when they're full.

I never forced food in though, when they were full I stopped.

Spoon feeding or BLW it's how you do it that matters.

I love anecdotal evidence - my kids aren't overweight so it's all a bunch of... even though, statistically speaking, some of you saying that your kids aren't overweight are probably kidding yourselves.

I am not saying obesity is linked to being spoon-fed but it does have something to do with being over fed.

Enb Strictly speaking I suspect that is a 'may have something to do with being over fed'. Clearly this is not the case 100% of the time. It does not matter if these people are the statistically the minority (which I suspect also is not the case as most children are not actually obese), spoon feeding not causing obesity is still true for them.

My child was spoon fed and is not obese or even over weight, I do know this and I am not kidding myself. He is skinny and most of the time has to get trousers a size smaller to stop them falling down even though he is quite tall.

Being obese is 100% related to how much food one consumes. The article is stuff and nonsense, I was merely making a comment on anecdotal evidence. Spoon fed or BLW if you overfeed your child they will gain weight, this is not news.

Enb I agree there.^

In my old job I met a lot of obese young kids. Often their parents were still worried that they weren't eating enough and had really pushed food in the past. These parents would be unlikely to blw and might be part of the association (if one truly exists). that doesn't mean sensible spoon feeding in families with healthy eating attitudes will increase obesity risk.

At risk of flaming, is blw more of a middle class thing? Another confounding factor.

Sounds like the research not robust at all anyway

I think I misconstrued your 'it' actually on rereading. I had read the 'it' to be spoon feeding. Sorry Enb.

Don't worry capsium I did BLW because I was lazy, I did try pureeing stuff but it was such a faff and I didn't want to use jars because I don't really like the idea of processed foods. I think processed food in general has a lot to answer for. There was a programme on R4 earlier regarding the evils of sugar which basically confirms my prejudices.

I am middle class. However when I weaned my baby spoon feeding and then later 'finger foods' was the accepted practice.

I think the rise in obesity could be down to the amount of added sugars (especially fructose) and fillers in commercially produced meals, which are often cheaper and most readily available. Repeated sugar peaks and subsequent troughs - can cause insulin resistance, which in turn leads to obesity.

X post Enb

I know the middle class thing a bit off piste. I'm simply trying to say in association may be associated with other factors which make blw more or less likely? Rather than simply the mechanical means of putting food in baby.

Similarly if you spoon feed till baby green and boaking that's not good. If you spoon feed normally, sensibly with decent stuff you'll probably be okay.

Any association might be due to other factors

I think it's more to do with convenience food. Back when we were kids our mums made all our food from scratch but now everything is so convenient most people eat out of a tray you can slam in a microwave. High in fat, sugar, salt and totally addictive. Buying baby food jars that have a 6 month + life expectancy because its easy cant be good for our kids. Home cooked food made with common sense is surely not going to make a kid fat. Baby's know when they're full and will just turn their head away when they're done. And when they do that STOP feeding them. They'll soon let you know if they want more.

It's so bloody rude to say "I fed my kids proper food" when referring to BLW and rubbishing purree spoon feeding.

That's not the way to have a debate. It's snobbery over your choice.

God people can be so self righteous about BLW.

Looking at you, Clara.

I use common sense personally, I am not going to sit and watch the baby spreading weetabix over his face for the sake of sticking rigidly to a weaning philosophy, some foods lend themselves perfectly well to being fed with a spoon, others for letting the baby feed themselves.

So if my baby eats a big mac with their hands they won't get fat?
Shame on my for using vegetables and a spoon - we are doomed.

I don't think it's snobbery about purreed food. Would you eat that food? It looks revolting. I feed my child proper food, it's the same kind of food that I'd eat. People are being rude about blw, saying it's neglectful blah blah blah. And how babies will starve and how they don't get enough.

As fair as I'm concerned in a traditional society they wouldn't mush up food and feed with a spoon. I can't see cave women feeding their children like that. But BLW is seen as new age and purreeing is traditional. I don't agree

There is nothing wrong with mashed or puréed food to be honest.

Why be so rude about it?

A homemade bolognese tastes pretty nice mushed up.

You eat soup, don't you?

Most meals taste perfectly fine.

And no there is nothing amazingly new about BLW. Which is why I can't understand why some not all advocates act like they are doing something so revolutionary.

Pretty basic stuff, isn't it.

Gill rapley must be laughing all the way to the bank.

I thought people used to chew food and give it to their babies that way, centuries ago? Animals do.

I have fed purees and solid foods.

no, people used to just feed their babies. Babies can eat solid food