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BLW Again.. newby needing advice, BLW gurus come here!

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nwgreenmum · 19/01/2007 21:00

Am with DD who is number 3 for me. I have heard little bits and pieces about BLW, and then tried to look it up on the web, read bits and pieces. Today, when I went had lunch I put her in her high chair and she went completely wild / excited, and was grabbing for my food. So I gave her a couple of bits of pasta. She LOVED it.
So tonight I cooked some carrot wedges and potato wedges. Don't know if I cooked them right (were they too soft, she kept biting big bits off and spitting them out?). How much to cook broccoli? OK, she is just 23/4 weeks, but she was so happy and chatty as she gummed bits of everything, she can pick them up and she can sit upright in her high chair (please nobody shout at me!) I had started on baby rice because of her interest in our food, but would love to go with BLW if poss (and I have laminate floors so no carpets to worry about )

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evamum · 19/01/2007 21:40

Just carry on as you are! It took a few weeks before DD realised everything she was biting off could be swallowed and not spat out or hoarded in her cheek to be spat out later....!

I cooked broccoli the same as I would for me and she just sucked it until it submitted adn fell apart..

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nwgreenmum · 19/01/2007 21:43

Actually I got that wrong, bits were breaking off even before she got them to her mouth (hit cheek, break off)

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AitchTwoOh · 19/01/2007 21:47

from memory i think that they do spit stuff out in the beginning, they only swallow a tiny bit but you'll probably see it in the nappies and get the shock of your life. I think it's progress to get it in their mouths, the proper chewing comes later. for now be grateful that she's not trying to swallow bits that are too big to handle, or she'd be gagging her head off.

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nwgreenmum · 19/01/2007 21:54

How bizzare is this - I was invited to, and went to, a weaning party in December by the HV (as this is number 3 I have done the conventional thing b4), and I went for the freebies (am am cheap, I know I am and I admit that I am)
If I had not come to mumsnet (and recently too) I would never have heard of BLW

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sweetkitty · 19/01/2007 21:54

Agree with ohter you don't think they are getting anything but their nappies tell you otherwise. Just keep on the way you are going.

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nwgreenmum · 19/01/2007 22:10

how much do you cook stuff? Mpst of the vege I do for our dinner is fairly crunchy, sould you cook it more for babe?

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PinkTulips · 19/01/2007 22:30

hi nwgreen

Like the others have said you'll probably get a shock when you see her nappies tomorrow! Lots of times I've put ds to bed thinking he's not eaten any solids and opened his nappy in the morning to find it chock full of carrots!

I don't think how things are cooked is overly important myself, for example if all i have are roast potatoes i take the centre of it out and give it to him. Most of our food is relatively baby friendly anyway as dd is still little but where things aren't quite suitable i either give him the bits he can have or if there really isn't anything of my plate he can have he has a bit of fruit or yogurt (i dip the spoon in and he holds it and sucks the yogurt off, very cute!)

I've given ds quarters of raw apple to gnaw on (under close supervision) and he's been quite happy to scrape at them with his gums so i wouldn't worry too much about cooking things to mush either.

I find with ds that he's surprisingly adept at deciding for himself what he can manage and what he can't... he'll spit lumps of food out after sucking all the mushy bits off if he really can't manage. (the other night after having chicken for dinner he quite calmly and cheerfully coughed up a whole chunk of chicken that he'd tried to swallow whole )

Hope you enjoy it as much as i am... have you looked at Aitch's blog? www.babyledweaning.com. It's reassured me on more than one occasion when I've been neurotically panicking!

AitchTwoOh · 19/01/2007 22:40

talking of neurotic panicking... i am too scared to give dd bits of apple, so she gets the whole thing or nothing at all.

and i probably overcooked things a bit in the beginning. partly because it was summer so me and dh weren't eating a lot of boiled carrots so i didn't have to cook for all of us.

PinkTulips · 19/01/2007 22:49

lol... you should have seen the broccolli i did last week none of us eat it so it's been years since i cooked it so i ended up with mush.... had to lad a spoon with it for him as it was too sludgy to hold! he cleared the pot though so musn't have been too bad.

Aitch... i tried the thin slices of apple first and he was gagging so i just gave him one of dd's quarters with the skin off and he was fine

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nwgreenmum · 22/01/2007 17:47

OK - you were right about the carrot turning up in the nappy (According to DH anyway - I was having a lie-in on Sunday , the first one since she was born) and then the broccolli turned up later that day. She is currently sitting in high chair and sucking pear....

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PinkTulips · 22/01/2007 22:45

pear is always a big hit here, lol

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nwgreenmum · 22/01/2007 23:01

Well she sucked at the pear for about 1 minute then yelled, then turned down carrot. Looks like it is all on hold for at least a day as we are ALL now coming down with a cold ( you know that nasty itchy feeling in the back of your throat?) and she has been miserable all evening too - asleep now though.

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