BLW and the waste!

[Sausages123]

Does anyone else want to sob at the waste, yesterday I had handfuls of rice just thrown on the floor and today salmon pasta I have a towel and recycle the food but, honestly the waste makes me feel quite guilty

No because I never succeeded in giving mine purees. With DD1 I did two weeks of it and tried all sorts, carrots, butternut squash, apple, pear, you name it I tried it. All thrown out. DD2 I haven't given up yet. But currently on week 3 (26 weeks this week!) and she still hasn't taken a spoonful at any meal.

The trick with BLW is to have a wipe clean table cloth on the floor. And reoffer anything that landed within the table cloth. For example, DD2 dinner tonight is rice, one broccoli floret and one piece of aubergine only.

Yep we do that and I BLW my first, I think I had just forgotten the waste! My son will not entertain being fed at all so don't even bother!

I stick one or two items on the tray at a time and a clean plastic mat under the high chair so we can recycle the dropped food. He only was a couple of mouthfuls so I don't want to put loads of food on that he won't eat!

They seem to have a knack of just throwing the food for fun definitely.

Get a dog!

I have the same thought most days but I just take solice in the grin on DS face when he finds something that's tasty to him and goes to town to on it, plus the fact that hopefully we will have a child who will eat pretty much anything and is a sociable eater :) At least there's no spooning back the spat out gunk -always made me gag when I helped out with siblings!

I just give a couple bits at a time so she can't throw much.

Put less in bowl at a time. Then you haven't wasted it all and can refill. Take the bowl away each time they throw though to discourage throwing

Poundland have floor protection (basically big plastic sheets with cute designs on).

My dd initially ate well but has a cold and I suspect a sore throat. "Loaded spoons" and finger foods everywhere except her gob! Oh well...

My dd spat out / threw / refused purees. She dropped / threw / occasionally ate finger foods so the waste was about the same both ways, but one was much less stressful for me than the other.

I have finally found my spiritual home!

I officially hate BLW and am sick to the back teeth of the waste. Cheese cubes, flung on the floor, uneaten. Cheerios, same thing. Peas, same. Bits of ham, roast chicken, on the floor. Biscuits, half nibbled then whizzed to their death. I'm sick of sweeping and thinking of things for him to eat that are small, tasty finger foods.

I am going to wait at least two weeks before starting again. DS is 15 months and according to everyone should be eating sandwiches, Babybels and tangerines along with the odd full English chucked in for good measure.

He eats scrambled egg, loads of yogurt, fruit purees, homemade casseroles etc blended up, I try and keep it quite chunky though for texture. Will occasionally eat a slide of toasted raisin bread.

It doesn't help that he is teething at the moment either. I swear he would live off milk and pouches if I Iet him.

I am starting to think that BLW is kind of like breast feeding: it either works or it doesn't. For me it's just a nightmare.

Sorry for the rant!

(scurries back to clean the kitchen)

Might seem a strange question, but what is the actual point of BLW? Why is it preferable? So that baby is more involved?

At the end of the day we all use utensils anyway, so why the urgency that they feed themselves?

And how long is it supposed to take? Until they're 3? Sod that, I like my white walls!

They eat a lot more when spoon-fed, and therefore sleep better, no? Or am I just opening up a massive can of worms asking these questions?!

toffee the point for me is both my DD are spoon refusers. They both ate less with spoons. Both would not open mouth, turn heads away, spun it really quickly so I couldn't aim, and DD1 even knew how to bat thre spoon away at 26 weeks.

So there is your answer.

And both are very food at no throwing. They love stuffing food into mouth. They only drop food to edge of tray, which I then pick up and put back on the tray.