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Weaning

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So is baby led weaning just not pureeing it and giving jars or is there more to it?

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dejags · 07/02/2007 11:03

DS2 was weaned very early (advised by Paediatrician [anger]).

We kept his diet very simple until he was 6 months old and sitting very confidently.

After that we just let him eat what we were having (obviously prepared with him in mind with no salt/sugar and taking care to introduce different foods slowly).

I never bothered with jars or purees, I just mashed what was mashable with a fork or let him gnaw on it when that was possible.

Is this baby led weaning or is there more to it?

I am currently pg with DC3 so am interested in this for obvious reasons.

TIA

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AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:05

erm, i didn't type it out. like i said.

i said 'i think they're gross', and you said 'i don't think they're gross'. not particularly illuminating, just woolly personal opinion...

so i cut and pasted the ingredients so that you and everyone else on the thread could read them and make your own mind up re the grossness of the petit filous.

and now you come on and say 'i think that was over the top'. well, i don't. i thought it was interesting. whether you feed that amount of sugar and filler with minimal fruit content to your child is ultimately up to you, of course. please note that my superior attitude on this one has bugger all to do with BLW and everything to do with the fact that Petits Filous are an outrageous marketing con designed to fool mothers into spending a fortune on something 'healthy'. i can't deny that they are delicious, of course.

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:11

PanicPants that sounds hilarious. what a PITA!
DD loves her fork, but she is rubbish at getting things with it so i tend to stab for her and then leave the fork sticking out on the table. in order to discourage her from pulling it all off i stab veggies first and then meat last, so for example a bit of steak is likely to stay on the fork longer.
but if he's really determined i can't imagine what you'd do other than try a few indian or mexican style meals that everyone eats with their fingers and see if he gets the gist again. am pmsl at the plaintive looks towards the cutlery drawer. does he have his own set of cutlery? dd loves hers, it's made her much less interested in mine i reckon.

PanicPants · 09/02/2007 22:16

It is amusing sometimes, it's a case of laugh or cry though.

He has a few sets, and likes nothing more than to have a fork in each hand.

Really hope it's just another phase and he'll grow out of it. He'd be happy to sit all day in his highchair trying to stab things if he could. But he does get frustrated when he can't, and even more frustrated when we try and help.

Damned if we do, and damned if we don't.

oops · 09/02/2007 22:16

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PinkTulips · 09/02/2007 22:20

lol panic pants... that exactly what dd does too! either that or gets hysterical and refuses to eat any more because i dared to interfere

btw mabel i said 'get mad' as in cross which you clearly are, not 'gone mad' as in crazy which i can hardly judge based on a few internet posts!

PanicPants · 09/02/2007 22:22

lol PT thats exactly it. Well, I'm glad I'm not alone then!

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:24

that's the thing about the baby cutlery, though, it's not sharp enough. we had some plastic forks that were completely useless. the metal ones are better but still not great other than for self-stabbing.
what happens when you're having a sandwich?

lulumama · 09/02/2007 22:29

got DD some cutlery in tesco, was £1 for knife fork and spoon

she is 18 months and has been (trying) to use cutlery since 14 months.....

she likes having a go and i am happy with that

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:31

totally lulu, dd still uses her hands for the most part. the fork she considers to be a useful but principally decorative accessory, like a marc jacobs handbag or somesuch. in pink, of course...

PanicPants · 09/02/2007 22:33

He will eat a sandwich with his hands which is interesting. It's almost as if he recognises what food can be used with a fork and what can't.

He used to gobble up small pieces of meat and veg with his fingers but now wants to play at stabbing it instead.

lulumama · 09/02/2007 22:33

this is sadly utilitarian metal cutlery, the pink stuff was plastic bendy nonense . as well as a useless pink none slip mat that she hurled across the kitchen with her bowl , with great glee.....luckily, the dogs cleared the decks before the food hit the floor

i think dogs are an integral part of BLW !

lulumama · 09/02/2007 22:34

DD adores a crustless sandwich, eaten elegantly with her little finger sticking out!

PinkTulips · 09/02/2007 22:35

or a fat cat

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:37

we had one of those sticky things as well, lulu. dd defeated it almost immediately by unpeeling it from the table and hurling mat, bowl and contents to the ground.
that is weird about the sandwich, panicpants... perhaps you could try fajitas next? dd loves them (although she unfurls them first).

lulumama · 09/02/2007 22:39

fajitas....i gave DD a tortilla wrap and she excavated the contents and ate it all separately

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:41

yes, but it would test PP's boy's instinct for discerning 'foods that are eaten with cutlery' to the very limit...

PinkTulips · 09/02/2007 22:41

lol, we got one of those stick to the table bowls which defeated dd for approximately 10 seconds

dd throws a strop if she's served anything without cutlery.... you can hear the shrieks of 'FOK, SPOON, FOK, SPOON' in the next postcode!

PanicPants · 09/02/2007 22:45

lol, will try one and see what he does with it.

He's just a contrary little bugger.

Never, ever found a bowl that would actually stick to the table, and if I ever did, could you image the rage that would follow when ds discovers that actually he can't throw it on the floor, or put it on his head...

PanicPants · 09/02/2007 22:45

imagine

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 22:58

dd has started signalling the end of her meal by calmly tidying the remains of her meal into her water glass, placing her bowl over her face and making a breathing sound like darth vader. it's not going to be cute forever but at the moment we hurt ourselves laughing.
by the way, when she turned one the mess all but stopped... still a bit of attention-seeking dropping over the side of the highchair but nothing much to wipe up. bliss.

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 23:00

then samosas next... does anyone know how to make the pastry for samosas? i love them...

PinkTulips · 09/02/2007 23:03

[drool emoticon] mmmm samosas, now i'm hungry!

from about 1 year old to 18 months dd signaled the end of the meal by wearing her bowl as a hat and clapping her hands..... even if the bowl was still full

TheTrollfinderGeneral · 09/02/2007 23:07

actually, dd has another thing that she does that is v cute... she makes a ssssshhhh noise and waves her hands up and down to mimic unning water. she's saying 'i would like to take my bawth now, mater and pater'.

(am aitch btw, but have changed for great trollhunt debate).

TheTrollfinderGeneral · 09/02/2007 23:19

unning water? must get this keyboard cleaned...

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