AIBU? £30 for a weaning course?

[CheeseGrater]

Is this the baby-industry gone a bit mad? There are regular free NHS weaning sessions at our local children's centres yet there is also a private company doing 2hr info sessions for £30.

Do people really pay that?

You can google everything surely?

Ok so I paid £6 or whatever it was for the BLW book 3 years ago and even then I was a bit bemused that there was a whole book made out of "just give your baby what you have but mind the salt".

Is it me or is this overkill a bit?!?

Yep, sounds like a rip off if you think it'll just teach you what you could google. But if you look at it as an opportunity to get out, can take your baby, try some recipes and techniques and perhaps meet some new people it could be £30 very well spent. It's like saying why would you spend £30 in pizza express when or can buy the pizzas and eat them at home, you're getting more than what's advertised.

Give baby boiled carrot sticks.

£30 please.

Just seems like money for old rope...

Perhaps I should set up a nappy changing info session?!

I bet people will pay for the baby prep sessions. Nappy changing, bathing, selecting baby clothes and putting them on. Just look on he posts on mn. Many new mums are confused how to care for a newborn. And surprisingly all NHS and NCT covered is mainly the bath.

Birth I mean!

Is it a 1:1 session? I'm not sure of the value if that's the case. But i would have loved to meet group of other confuddled more money than sense mums with children the same age.

I did the BabyCalm blw course it was well worth the £35 it cost it was 3hours though

Wtf. give them food. no added sugar or salt.

consult Google for ideas.

give me some money now please

ohis what did you get out of it?

There's just so many baby groups round here I just felt this one was overkill. It's a group thing, not sure how many people go though, just a one-off 2hr session so I can't see that you'd really 'make friends' there either.

I went to the childrens centre one with DD1 3.5 years ago and it was great - informative, friendly, relaxed, slight bias towards blw but not pushy. They still run them so I guess I'm just baffled as to why anyone would pay £30 for something that's run by people with unregulated qualifications.

Perhaps I'm just tight!!!

It was a while ago but from what I remember it covered the signs of being ready to wean, pros & cons of blw, tasting baby food (yuck), safety gag reflex v choking, recipe ideas and some stuff of toddler eating.

Unless they threw in some first aid responses to choking it's a huge waste of money.
I might consider it but like a lot of things it seems to be taking advantage of nervous parents.

YANBU.

I'm nervous nelly the pfb parent (with anxiety too) and I'm thinking WTF too!

I saw a "client" post on FB the other day suggesting if your baby had ever hiccuped, spat up, sneezed or not slept through to "read this badly spelt in broken English blog post" ... it was of course a quack selling expensive allergy testing. Someone challenged them and they started spouting stuff about everyone being intolerant to something and the UK not understanding. But they outed themselves as fake - client posting to get free advertising.

Baby feeding, allergies etc and sleep seem to be HUGE cash cows especially in affluent areas. And once the genuinely ill kids have run out they prey on pfb fear!