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BLW - some basic tips to get me started please!

79 replies

MandyBOO · 17/10/2006 21:01

DS is five and a half months old and is seemingly ready for food now. Am quite interested in the whole BLW process but dont really know where to start.

COuld someone please give me some basic tips to get me started.

Thanks !

OP posts:
TheDaVinciCod · 17/10/2006 21:58

nut whats the long term difference?
once they are one they feed themselves chexz nous anyway

TheDaVinciCod · 17/10/2006 21:58

but

swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 21:59

sorry, enid, i have now read the whole thread,
I didn't see your post ealry on about how you started out your DD.

TheDaVinciCod · 17/10/2006 22:00

so what is it supposed to achive?

EnidVorhees · 17/10/2006 22:00

yes same here

I don't really get it

other than you just dont mash stuff

therefore they just eat ibts off your plate

mine do that AND have some ming spooned in as well

TheDaVinciCod · 17/10/2006 22:01

adn the result is>.................///////?
they pass more Gcses
tbht he weaning but is such a short period of hteir life it a fus sover nothgin isnt it?

EnidVorhees · 17/10/2006 22:01

no thats OK

just got a bit paranoid about sheperds pie there for a minute

swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:03

it isn't about the long term difference i don't think
It is about giving the baby a bit of independaence and the way it worked for me I would just give the kids their food and have a cuppa whilst they were eating.
Didn't have to mash/puree/blah blah balh and take out those shitty little pots of pap.
Ds2 was eating sarnies pretty quickly so never had to worry about carting baby food around, and never had to wrestle a spoon off him and fling the conteents of it up the wall.
Never had to worry about any of it really....
seems the perfect way to go..

TheDaVinciCod · 17/10/2006 22:04

lol at baby independence! as if theyll remmebr
its a sweet idea!

swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:05

Well piscine one, it made my life a shedload easier so I didn't think it was a fuss about nothing- mainly because it wasn't a fuss at all
That is the point

EnidVorhees · 17/10/2006 22:06

ah miserable for poor dd3 to watch the dds tucking into lovely sheperds pie and having to gum on a ricecake instead though

swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:08

I also suppose that within a general framework of how you treat a baby and then the child and then the adult it becaimes, handing over independance is a good thing and I for one had alot less hassle weaning the BLW baby, as he just did whatever he wanted with the food, and as i sadi no wrestling over spoons etc.

And as part of the parent I am, letting him get on with it is a small part of how he will grow up. He won't remember it of course, but it is part of a jigsaw that makes up how he is viewed and how he views himself.

SoupDragon · 17/10/2006 22:09
swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:10

rice cakes, pah , food of the devil, like wallpaper paste bay rice

i make food more solid these days, so maybe we could do a slice of shepherd's pie.

CastsSpellsWitchySpells · 17/10/2006 22:10

bats - did you find it terribly messy? My DD empties everything out of her bowl piece by piece and throws it on the floor, occasionally eating a bit along the way. When her bowl is empty I pick up all the food from the floor and put it back in there. Some she'll eat, most she'll throw. We go through this a number of times before she actually decides to stop eating altogether. It's far far messier than when I was spoon feeding her! Not sure if this is normal, and if so when she might grow out of it, or if I just have a delinquent eater on my hands?!

GhoulsToo · 17/10/2006 22:11

you'll get pins and needles

swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:12

we didn't have a bowl- for the reason you mention
I had a high chair with a deep tray and just put the food on the tray.
And yes, he used to ditch it over the sid a fair bit, and for abou 5-6 weeks it was messy messy messy.
ANd then suddenly more and more food went in and less and less on the floor.
So in the long run it was fine

SoupDragon · 17/10/2006 22:15
swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:17

lol

CastsSpellsWitchySpells · 17/10/2006 22:21

Hmmmm. DD is 8 months now, but she has only been having the bowl in front of her for a couple of weeks. Before that she would just be offered some finger food on her tray as well as me spoon feeding. She tended to do a lot of chucking then too. Will stick with it and see what happens, thanks.

SoupDragon · 17/10/2006 22:21
CastsSpellsWitchySpells · 17/10/2006 22:23

Not giving you any magic answers Soupy? Go on, you know you want to do just blw really. The good bit is that at least I get to eat my meals instead of spending my whole dinnertime trying to get DD to eat off a spoon.

CastsSpellsWitchySpells · 17/10/2006 22:24

Well, I get to eat in between grovelling around the floor for the spoils of war that is.

SoupDragon · 17/10/2006 22:25

Oh, I am doing it. Although I'm doing BabyDragon Led Weaning which is slightly different.

swOOPingbatS · 17/10/2006 22:25

yep, the real slacker way to feed a baby.
Stick it in fromt of him and eat your own dinner, have a cuppa, just hang out for a while.
No pressure at all. I had no idea how much or how little he was eating, and i just didn't care.
Fab!

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