blw baby at nursery

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anyone with a blw baby at nursery?

dd will be 8 months old when she starts part time in january. she's doing great with her food, happily chomps anything.

so just wondering, before i broach the nursery about it, what other people's experiences are?

is your nursery open to the idea? wary of health and safety, choking etc? refused to do it? does your baby go along with spoon feeding when at nursery instead? do they instead eat with older babies or what??

my nursery is very big on annabel karmel, huge menu boards up everywhere. she's even visited the nursery to help the chef menu plan.

I told my dd's nursary that she only eats finger foods. They then asked how she eats fruit puree! They really didn't get it. She only goes two half days a week, so I didn't pursue the issue, and after a few weeks she started eating the puree food they give her. She was one year old by that stage.

crikey! they feed your one year old puree? see i don't even know how long a baby not doing blw would be having puree. when do they start lumps or whatever?

do they give her plenty finger foods? did they give you the option of her having the food the older children have?

She's 15 months old now and still has puree at creche. I think they usually move them up into the older group at around this time. It doesn't bother me, as long as she eats, and it's always healthy food, and it'sonly a couple of meals a week. At home she always has the food that we're eating, has done for a long time.

ok.

dd will only be there 2 afternoons, so it'll only be 2 teas. just can't see her taking puree when she likes stuff to tear at, chomp at etc. i'll see what they say.

perhaps they'll be more willing to try then my dd's nursary. I live in Belgium and BLW isn't really knownhere. Maybe it's better known where you are.

thanks belgo.

anyone else?

I'm intruiged.... what blw?

baby led weaning. no puree, just finger food. babyledweaning.com

Wow, this looks fantastic! I'm only TTC at the moment but definitely think I'll give this a go when the time comes

hi i posted on the other BLW thread as well. Ds2 is 2 1/2 now but jumped pretty much into finger foods rather than what I call 'mush'.

After having to deal with my expressed milk and cloth nappies I think our nursery were pretty used to us doing things differently!!! I used to provide my own food because we have food intolerances in the family and their menus were full of wheat and dairy, and not terribly healthy in any case. I suspect they may have mashed up ds2's food and tried to offer it to him on a spoon but he probably just showed them he wasn't happy with that . They never really understood why i wasn't so keen on puddings though, and I had to specifically say only to give him fruit otherwise they kept giving him biscuits .

So basically providing your own food might be a way forward, although it is lots of extra work. And something I didn't do, but which might have helped, was to provide them with a little information sheet explaining what you're doing and why. (I did this with the expressed milk and I think they were quite appreciative.)

thanks for that! it;s good to know how other people go about it.

i'm really hoping they'll let her have the food the older kids have. but we shall see..