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

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Enid · 16/11/2006 15:01

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.

OP posts:
hunkermunker · 16/11/2006 22:36

BBS, yep, I can understand that

harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 22:46

yep lazy arse
slacker
feeding your child table scraps
I don't see what's so revolutionary about the baby led bit, though - surely it's an extension of feeding on demand??

AitchTwoOh · 16/11/2006 22:50

but it is utterly naff-tastico as names go, isn't it? baby-led... makes me shiver... bbbrrrrrr.

harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 22:52

does it? gosh I really am a lentil weaver because it sits pretty easily with me actually.
anyway enough of this I must insist on serenading you aitch, are you ready?

hunkermunker · 16/11/2006 22:54

Harpsi, did I hear you're not coming to the meet-up?

harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 22:55

aitch I am your biggest fan
If you can't help us, noone can
you help our babes eat ham and lamb
and spam and clam and jam and ram

harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 22:56

you did hear that hunker, due to arrival of homeless inlaws
I am Working On It though

Greensleeves · 16/11/2006 22:56

HC, have you been drinking?

harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 22:59

well spotted
only a glass and a half of wine to celebrate the completion of the playground plan
and the end (almost) of Quite A Week.
I also wanted to show my appreciation of the lovely aitch, with whom I am going to write a BLW book pretty soon
what about it aitchy baby?

hunkermunker · 16/11/2006 23:01

Harpsi, do indeed Work On It. Inlaws mean they're your DH's problem, surely?

Show them this and sneak off while they're sobbing

harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 23:01

mil is a big Cliff fan as it happens

hunkermunker · 16/11/2006 23:03

There you go then, she'll love you, you get to sneak off and have fun, she gets to stay home with Cliff and her lovely son and granddaughters. Everyone's a winner!

rustybear · 16/11/2006 23:06

This was exactly what I did 16 years ago when dd refused to eat from a spoon. Wish I'd known it had a fancy name then, so I could have impressed my MIL who couldn't understand why I let her make such a ness.... (and everytime she sees DD eat anything with her fingers she harks back to the whole 'wouldn't make her eat from a spoon' thing)

AitchTwoOh · 16/11/2006 23:06

ram?

harpsi is your child eating ram? and clam? and spam? i think hunker might want to have a word about that...

hunkermunker · 16/11/2006 23:10

Ram and clam probably fine. Spam though...best left to email filters

Aitch, do you ever look at active convos, my love?

AitchTwoOh · 16/11/2006 23:21

hah! i found it, thanks very much. i'm actually on a work deadline so banned from active convos. only allow myself to attend to pressing 'threads i'm on' matters.
the sesame street clip is fabulous. you think i'm here to fkn amuse you?

welliemum · 17/11/2006 00:24

Well, I BLW'd dd1 without knowing that was what I was doing.... but it seemed obvious to me that she should decide what, when and how much to eat (with BF as her main source of food).

It was very low-stress and aged 2, she eats an amazing range of food. Could be coincidence of course.

Where I would be shot down in flames is that I did puree some foods. Broccoli, for example. She loved it (still does) but couldn't manage it as fa inger food for the first couple of months.

Broccoli has quite a difficult texture if it's lightly steamed, and so it made more sense to me to whizz it up, rather than boiling all the vitamins out of it.

Oh, I also handed her the spoon from about 7 months and she fed herself, so when she'd had enough she'd just put the spoon down and that was it.

I do feel very when I see parents doggedly spooning food into the mouths of screaming babies, but that is a problem of parents, not of spoons.

Rant over!

welliemum · 17/11/2006 00:25

PS Get Well Soon Aitch

HowTheFillyjonkStoleChristmas · 17/11/2006 06:44

I will not hear a WORD against superdrug spoons

they are fantastic

When you are food-colouring dying yarn and need something soft yet undyable to fish the yarn out with, there's nowt that beats a superdrug spoon.

seriously have never got my hraf tound why they are allowed to market food for under 6m.

Waswondering · 17/11/2006 09:18

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AitchTwoOh · 17/11/2006 11:17

brilliant that you are having fun with the purees, winky, and i'm glad that the blog is useful for the finger food. please tell your friends... i LOVE seeing how many people visit every day, although i'm never sure if it's mostly my mum's friends looking for photos of DD.
i think that's why really there isn't a bit ideological argument here, because tbh every baby (apart from the ones who end up on Dr Tanya) progresses to self-feeding at some point, it's just a matter of timings really. there are some advantages to both methods, i feel .

Blackalice · 17/11/2006 11:31

Blimey, this thread has gone mad since I logged off last night!

I want to say something profound but my brain is failing me afetr a sleepless night! I'd better go clear up the porridge pancake and toast debris downstairs before my mate comes round LOL! (Aitch - were you joking re velvet curtains? I wouldn't put Alfie within six miles of our curtains!)

AitchTwoOh · 17/11/2006 11:37

i took my eye off the ball for a minute and she whirled round in her highchair and schmeared them. didn't realise she could reach until then. luckily the curtains are quite horrible, so it's no trauma.

Blackalice · 17/11/2006 11:44

LOL! Alfie prefers smearing my hair, the cat, DH.....

How's the teeth?

scaryt · 17/11/2006 11:44

Have an awful feeling that I'm one of the people that's sparked this thread. I know I'm asking ridiculous questions about what to feed DS (which would be the same however I wean him) and that all I have to do is use my common sense (which I really do have). BUT for some reason it all seems to go out of the window when it comes to actually going for it and it's so easy to just check something over with friendly people here at MN who have got recent experience with their little offspring.

FWIW DS is loving cramming sticks of food into/round his mouth/head/body. And he's actually swallowing bits, I didn't think that would happen for ages. And it's really entertaining . . . so much so that I sadly take photos to show DH when he gets home (this bit I hope will wear off!).

Sorry for being so dense and asking what I know are ridiculous questions . . ..