Mil looks after dd for 3 days a week whilst I work. She's brilliant with her, apart from feeding. Dd is 1 in around 3 weeks and weaning was quite easy with her. I didn't really follow any particular method with her, but by 7 months she was eating just about anything with her hands.
Now, dd eats what we eat, no mushing, no making things separately. We just don't add salt to any cooking and we get along fine. When mil has her, she goes to great lengths to make meals for her, which she seems to enjoy doing, and refusing our offers of sending meals with her. She then insists in mashing it, or spoon feeding it, and dd often won't entertain her. I have mentioned several times that dd doesn't like to eat this way and often eats better when left to her own devices.
Mil has a massive fear of dd choking and her not being able to 'save' her. Not quite sure where this has come from, but she's terrified. I have purposely given dd meals where she's chewing on new potatoes, chunks of meat, massive florets of broccoli, just to prove that dd is absolutely fine. She can't watch.
I can understand that dd isn't her child and that she's scared to pat, or slap if needed, dd on the back if she really was choking, but my sympathy is running out. Yesterday she told me where I could get jars of baby food on offer. I told her I didn't feed dd this and she said that she does. I told her dd is almost 1 and she needs to get over this silly fear because dd is fine with normal regular food.
How can I get her to stop buying purées? I feel that at dds age it's almost like taking a step back.