BLW and childminder

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Not sure if I should've put this in the childminding section but hey ho...

I am planning on sending ds to a childminder 3 days a week in 2 months' time when he will be 7 months old. I haven't found one yet though, so we'll see if that's feasible. Anyway I am planning on trying BLW from when he is 6 months. Is it reasonable to ask a childminder to handle this kind of feeding while he is with her, or, if she really doesn't want to, would it work to combine purees and finger food (ie she does the purees)? If she hasn't heard of BLW at all, how do I describe it so it won't put her off ?

If she's knows what it is, i'd have thought it would be easier for her (being more free to keep an eye on all her mindees while your little eats and so on)

show her aitch's blog, and show her the gill rapley study. if she's not convinced i honestly would look for another child minder, but that's just me. my nursery's going along with it so i don;t see why your cm can't.

I'm a CM, and will happily feed a child what the parent wants me to. In fact, I didn't do BLW with my 2 (didn't know about it then), and I do not provide bottles or purees for infants but do provide all other food. So, if you wanted me to d BLW for your child it would be fine with me,just tell me what foods you want the child to have and I would provide them. I can't imagine there should be a problem with any CM

i had this worry when i went back to work 3 days a week and MIL was due to look after my DD.

Well it took a bit of "seeing is believing" think it helped as when she saw me dish up broccoli she thought I was very mean until she saw how much dd enjoyed it!

MIL started spreading the word practically at the mums and tots she does. She loves it now as much as i do!

Communication is the key just tell her all about it and if all else fails I'm with Dizzybint I'd seek a CM prepared to take on my parenting as a want it done.

Good Luck

DiaryOfaBabyLedWeaner

I think you can easily combine the two, i do that with my 8 month old. I find that he gets frustrated sometimes when trying to feed himself, and cant get enough into his mouth fast enough.He loves feeding himself at other times thogh.

I think you can easily combine the two, i do that with my 8 month old. I find that he gets frustrated sometimes when trying to feed himself, and cant get enough into his mouth fast enough.He loves feeding himself at other times thogh.

thanks for all the thoughts. We are visiting our first potential CM tomorrow so will suss out her views on this kind of thing.

GGG - is that your dd in the blog you linked to? Very cute indeed