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Ok, I've found a problem with BLW

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:05

DS2 is a hardcore BLW child. He's 2. I have never managed to feed him anything, he has always self-fed.

He's a bit feverish, and so I wanted to give him calpol. He was ok about this, as long as I gave him a spoon and the bottle and let him sort it out ... not the most practical plan, for a wide range of reasons ...

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ProfYaffle · 30/10/2006 17:07

My dd always wants to do this with Calpol (she wasn't BLW) I buy it in sachets and she slurps it straight from the sachet.

MrsBadger · 30/10/2006 17:08

can you cheat and give dispersable paracetamol in juice instead?

Mum2FunkyDude · 30/10/2006 17:08

I use a syringe less messy

TwigTwoolett · 30/10/2006 17:08

stick it in a syringe and let him sort out the syringe

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:09

Oh, I bribed him and he agreed to let me give it to him normally ... after he'd struggled with the cap of the bottle for a little bit ...

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:11

The syringes we have are all for either french iboprofen (with markings on the side per kg of child!) or super-concentrated Canadian drugs ... I prefer spoons, as we have so much calpol kicking about.

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DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:19

You could have put it in a sandwich for him

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:20

He's actually eating those stupid teddy bear crisps at the moment .

To be fair, we're still (sorta) having a shit time of it, and he's ill, and I can't be bothered.

(It was my shift today, but not a food shift, so it was ok.)

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DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:23

Why are those meant to be more healthy than ordinary crisps? Why are they sold in health food shops? They seem worse to me than normal crisps, because at least with the ordinary sort you can tell that it was once a potato

(and yes, I don't see why you should be bothered about it, either, but I have been wanting to know about them for a while, hence the question)

busybusymum · 30/10/2006 17:34

sorry whats BLW

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:37

Hmmm. In favour of the teddy bear crisps:

  • they are a bit lower in salt
  • they are child-friendly (in some sense)
  • no colouring, msg, aspartame etc

But yeah, they're pretty processed. As are those baby organix ones, but at least those have some flavour to them.

I should be just always giving him popcorn, he loves popcorn, and it's thoroughly ok. But I am lazy.

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:38

Oh, sorry, BLW = baby-led weaning. Essentially, it's all about letting your child feed themselves table scraps. You skip purees entirely.

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busybusymum · 30/10/2006 17:39

oh right thanks for that

DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:41

But do crisps usually have colourings and aspartame and msg in?

(sorry feel like I am hectoring you but have honestly been perplexed by this)

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:43

The child-friendly ones do, I think. I mean, I don't eat those sorts of things (ok, I did used to like skips and quavers, but long long ago). Of course plain crisps don't, nor do salt and vinegar ones, or any crisps by any nice company, but I'd bet Monster Munch etc is full of 18 different kinds of cr*p.

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:45

Oooh, look, Monster munch:

Maize, vegetable oil, roast beef flavour [wheat rusk, hydrolysed soya protein, lactose (from milk), flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide), flavouring, colour (Ammonia caramel derived from wheat)], salt, wheat flour.

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DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:46

Oh yes, I take your point

was thinking of actual crisps, you know, potatoes and oil

but you are right

however I think those teddy things get bought by people who don't let their children have real potato and oil crisps, because they think they are somehow healthy

anyway

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:46

And even pringles, which are sorta nice sometimes, have MSG in lots of their flavours. (my lips go funny if I eat MSG, so I notice)

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DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:47
DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:47

Pringles are dreadful, there is something really strangely addictive in them and they scare me

Aitchisforhellishdifficult · 30/10/2006 17:48

dd loves being fed her Calpol on the spoon, for some mysterious reason. she schlurps it right down. won't take anything else, though. she is a deeply weird child.

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:49

After I had DS1, all I wanted to eat for about 24 hours was plain pringles and cloudy apple juice.

I don't think I know what wotzits are ... are they orange-coloured extruded maize?

I did used to like skips and quavers, but now I only like posh crisps. And the boys do really like homemade popcorn, so I should make it more ...

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Aitchisforhellishdifficult · 30/10/2006 17:49

the problem with wotsits is that one bag is never enough. pringles make me sick, but wotsits i need to keep eating until such times as my gums recede slightly.

DrFrankenZooey · 30/10/2006 17:52

I don't like any real crisps at all but I do secretly like wotsits and hula hoops

wotsits leave this sinister orange powder over everything, I think it may be carcinogenic

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NotQuiteCockney · 30/10/2006 17:53

DS2 likes hula hoops. I don't quite see the point to them.

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