Can we clear up once and for all whether you are 'allowed' to mention the possibility of spoon feeding on a BLW thread?

[Enid]

If the consensus is no, then I will happily bow out of any thread asking for advice on weaning, specifically BLW.

I always say that IMO it is fine to do both - ie a mixture of finger foods and spoon feeding.

Surely this cannot be in any way controversial?

i really, really don't 'get het up' about spoon feeding and say it is 'baaaaaaad', you know. it's just not BLW.

called having a very clever baby teecee !!

COD, Cod, Cod, over here, look what Enid is up to, AND she hndpicking broccoli from her gharden!

Hope it's purple sprouting.

ok so there is an ethos of blw

which is not to give a baby a food which isn't a lump

why?

LOL. Waht even if she uses the knife to eat peas off ratehr than cut food up with ?

Actually she uses the fork and her fingers and just stabs the knife into the table repeatedly!

Sorry for spelling led wrong

I sometimes feed him with a fork too........

I see BLW as the baby self feeding... they have control over the food & put it in their mouths themselves... so no I dont think that "spoon feeding" can really be a part of blw....but then they arent rules just guidelines & you have to go with what you are comfortable with....its your child after all! What I would like to say though is this doesnt mean that spoons cant be used with blw...when DS was 9 months he started having quinoa for breakfast which needed a spoon....I simply loaded the spoon (after giving him the opportunity to try & load it himself) & handed it to him so he would still have control over what went in his mouth...

so glad this weren't around in my day, all of seven years ago!!

although i used to make my sheparsd pie deliberately stoggy so it would stick to a spoon, and my twins could feed themsleves, i was just lazy though

if you aren't allowed spoons then it sounds like a wilfiul attempt to make a difficulty where none exists for the sake of having a food verion of alterntaive living and if you are allowed to load the spoon then I don't see anything new

which is not a surprise as there are really no new ways to feed children

still a bit mystified at the ice cube trays

Ooh, hello, Enid

Aitch! Fancy seeing you here!

And as an aside, isn't it rather a waste of somebody's life to have written 14 books about pureeing carrots, pushing potato through sieces and making faces out of salad vegetables on mashed swede?

Still, at least she's branched out into weaning equipment and ready meals now.

The AK is a nice lady. Just because I don't puree, doesn't mean I don't like her. Actually her books have some very nice recipes, you just omit the bit at the end where you chuck it all into the blender

pmsl at blw - I feel like my mother must have felt when I started on stuff - her generation had managed perfectly well - another fad!!.

but its not difficult zippititoes - thats the point ....porridge was the only food we had that we used a spoon for & tbh we could have just left him to eat it with his hands but he seemed to want to use a spoon like us....if I am perfectly honest I agree with the Gill Rapley sentence quoted earlier that there arent any foods a baby should be eating that need a spoon to be eaten so this whole thread is a bit moot

I suppose people like cookery books..aren't they the biggest money spinnners of any sector?

BLW is a good thing to tell mothers about who are stressed out their baby is refusing a spoon, clamping their mouth shut at the sight of a spoon, getting upset at mealtimes, etc.

But, please, feel free to continue to take the piss, it's marvellous fun

Littlelapin, she may very well be nice, but she's a bit bonkers too.

I don't agree with the foods that mkight or might not need a spoon

there are lots of foods i use a spoon for

it is frustrating not to have the food you'd like except by dipping your fist in it

I'd be skinny as a rake and very cross!

especially if i saw other people with them

My point was foods a baby should be having not foods for you or me....although I am curious what foods you cant eat without a spoon...I honestly cant hink of any atm (althought that could just be my addled brain )

but don't babies have the same food as anyone else?

Can't be ar$ed to read the entire thread but I'm with Enid.

"... baby is refusing a spoon, clamping their mouth shut at the sight of a spoon, getting upset at mealtimes, etc." kind of describes BabyDragon only the complete opposite The utter relief on her face when I offered her a spoonful of dinner... She'll do both now though, her choice.

Yoghurt's a tricky one without a spoon Unless you buy a sugar laden tube of the stuff. Not impossible, just tricky POh, and soup, although you could use a straw.

I think I shall avoid the whole argument ....

dd finds yoghurt with a spoon tricky, she stops scooping with a spoon after about 4 minutes and just lifts up yoghurt pot and 'drinks' it

when i relayed this to my mum she explained how i watched the cat eating, then dropped my spoon and stuck my face in the dish!

A few orgs do say that babies under one year shouldnt have dairy....we didnt give DS any until he was nearer 18 months...by which time he could use spoon all by himself....

Soup can be drunk or have bits of bread dunked in it....and thinking about it so can yogurt tbh