Ok since we are on food, lets talk about Baby Led Weaning - isnt it just ANOTHER set of rules for mums to fail at?

[Enid]

Because by NOT following baby led weaning I don't have any angst about what to give dd3 for breakfast. I give her porridge, I spoon it in, she eats it, end of. I mean, sorry, but porridge pancakes!? Why bother?

I liked the idea of it but there seem to be toooooooooooo many threads asking for advice and what to feed your baby etc - this suggests to me that it is just ANOTHER thing to angst over. I mean, if I am giving dd1 and 2 shepherds pie with peas, how am I supposed to feed it to dd3? so she gets the same thing mashed up and spooned in, hurrah.

I'm sorry but some blw questions are ridiculous....

whatever happened to using your common sense. Dont we all have enough to worry about without all this angst!!

well, ideally all aspects of mothering should be common sense (i must have missed your bib/pancake query, nikkie) but, you know, not everyone is as confident as you are...

some people just like to double-check things and i would suggest that undermining them by ridiculing them is not going to help, so i'd rather answer the question and watch them gain confidence.

luckily on the weaning page people tend to label their threads with a big BLW so that the easily-irritated can just ignore them.

Have you bothered to read the thread nicki?

dd3 is very wee and she isn't massively coordinated BUT she is very good with her little sandwiches so I am sure she won't have any trouble self-feeding.

My point is that actually I (this is my opinion only (tm)) would find putting meatballs and picking out bits of meals more hassle than just mashing up what the girls are eating and spooning it into dd3 whilst chatting to dd1 and dd2. Also dd1 and 2 LOVE feeding dd3 and dd3 loves it too so basically...dd3 is easy and we are having a lovely time so all is good here re food. BLW has nothing really to offer me but if it gives mums confidence to give more finger foods and not puree everything to extinction it is A Good Thing I suppose.

Aitch: No one cares about your agonising mouth, and no one gives a hoot for my porridge pancake, LOL. Tell me, HOW IS IT NOW ? Are you on pain killers ? Was it gruesome ? Do you anticipate your jaw aching for two weeks ? (I'm about to get one re-done.

nickichicki - re bibs and pancakes, yes, that's exactly what you do, preferably with a plastic bib so it gives his teeth a bit of a work-out.

(I have the pancakes in the back of my mind for that irritating phase when dd3 refuses to let me feed her )

sorry, dont wanna make anyone angry. I'm not a BLW'r or at least not "officially" neither am I a member of the puree club, I just try my best to feed my wee boy the best of what I can give him....yes sometimes that might be something he can eat himself but equally I am not adverse to using a spoon, and so far he is enjoying everything...and I am fully aware that I should enjoy this while I can as if he inherits any of his daddys genes he will be fussy beyond belief....

good-oh, enid.
with regards to the meatballs, all i do is not break up all the mince when i make the sauce (less work, one could argue if one were feeling in cheeky mood having been completely dispirited by nikkichikki's recent post sniding people of whom i am terribly fond). then i serve up the food (it's only dh and myself) and if we see a good lump of meat on our plate we hand it over. so there really is no hassle to it whatsoever.

dd1 doesn't 'do' lumps of meat

clearly it was all those purees she ate 7 years ago

HUB! the anaesthetic is wearing off now... it's getting a good bit more sore... the dentist told me that it might last for 'who knows, maybe six weeks, maybe six years?' he was very cheery about it, for a Bratislavan NHS dentist.

and i see that you said sorry, nikki, so i will also say sorry to you. everyone is trying to do their best here, you've got that right. [weakly, for i am in pain]

enid
wotcha

enid

I am very sure you could just cook a pancake in a small pan, but you'd have to watch the base doesn't overcook, or maybe flip it over half way (actually that'll be near enough impossible LOL).

I would leave it in the pan to set the first time as I'm not sure it'll give you a perfect scrape onto parchment IYSWIM (they can be quite sticky depending on which brand of porridge oats you are using).

IME, the thing really only sets when it's cooled down. When freshly cooked it's too hot and sticky and not floppy enough as a pancake.

BTW, they can range in consistency from hard oat-cake type thing to much more moist.

aitch - it's odd, some fillings heal in a day, and some take an age... I hope yours fixes itself vaguely fast. I hope you threatened your dentist with a weaning spoon. btw - I am doing the odd shot for you which you'll get (one day) of dd with enormous corn on the cob, slice of melon etc.

the odder the better, hub...

and i reckon if you wanted you could pour some cooked porridge into a non-stick tray, leave it to cool and set and then slice it. you could probably even freeze it and heat it up in the toaster if you get the consistency right (that's what i do with polenta... ooh, get me). that method, after all, references the inspiration for the recipe, which was after all the ancient Glaswegian habit of pouring leftover porridge into a lined drawer for people to cut a bit later on.

After I've made a batch I grab a step-stool and stick them on my kitchen ceiling. That way if I ever need one they're always to hand. Only Glaswegians would have a draw dedicated to old bits of porridge. I mean, have you seen the prices of property in London. We have to make every sq ft WORK ?

is it not working if it is sustaining an entire family of slum-dwelling Weegies? honestly, you fancy-pants londoners with your big ideas.

Superdrug still got on their fucking spoons "suitable for 3+ months" the wankers.

Look, it's no big deal.

Mush some up and spoon it in if your baby's happy for you to and you want to. Give finger food if you want to. Some babies like it more than others. DS1 often used to like me to hold sandwiches, bananas, bits of melon, etc and he'd munch bits off (so no less "work" than spoon-feeding, I suppose). DS2 will have none of it, not a spoon or a piece of food held up for him.

Just don't use fucking Superdrug spoons, OK?

right on, sister hunker.

breathe, hunker, breathe. It's just like second stage without the big tummy.

pmsl.

I just don't get why it's being held up as some dreadfully smug thing to do, to rather lazily bung some bits of grub in front of your baby. FGS.

Am calm though, don't fret

It's the words "baby-led"

Puts me in mind of those 2 month olds being psychoanalysed

Call it lazy arse mother weaning and I'd do it. In fact, I DID do it.

PARENT

lazy arse PARENT

Care-giver?

You get the drift...