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

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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?

Ah, Soupy, thought you might find this one

Look, it's fine. It's totally fine. Do what you like. Offer advice to other mums. But don't try to call it BLW when it's not - I know BLW is a bobbins term, btw, but saying "doing a mixture of finger food and spooned purees is BLW" is like objecting to the term appendicitis and trying to make it refer to a sprained ankle.

littleducks - actually, that's a good idea. I might stir a little milk into his yoghurt and see if he drinks it. I'm trying to encourage him to "tilt" things at the moment - he picks up his cup and puts it to his mouth, but he hasn't figured out the tilting bit yet!

but I don't see how by adding milk to it so he can drink it, is any different to pureeing as you are changing the food, isn't this against BLW?

manipulating the food maybe a better way of describing it

why is a cup ok and a spoon not ok?

you could put purees in a cup then teach them to tilt?

after all you wouldn't add mil to your own yoghurt, I'm finding all of this most perplexing and confusing, I am really quite relieved this stage is over in my house.

Would you like to join my BLR thread?

Although adding your mother in law to yoghurt is going too far.

pmsl

Zippi, a spoon is fine.

It's the notion of "spooning" that is less fine.

It's about allowing babies to discover textures, tastes, etc for themselves and being amazed by what they're capable of.

And, frankly, if your baby is capable of suggesting it's a nice idea if you spoonfeed them yoghurt at 7mo, so be it. Do it!

DS1 was capable of letting me know he'd rather I held the banana for him to peck bits off at that age, so I did. He's Not Keen on getting his hands messy, even now (although he does dip his fingers in yoghurt... "Yook, Mummy, I got yoghurt on my fingers!").

DS2, on the other hand, was totally against the idea of anyone else having any sort of hand in what he ate, and FAR prefers to feed himself. He will allow DH, DM and MIL to feed him porridge and yoghurt from a spoon, but very rarely me.

Again, so be it.

I refuse to get hung up about it, because there's nothing to be hung up on. However, one thing I do not believe in is distracting children so they'll eat, which is often what is suggested when a baby doesn't take to being spoon-fed (NOT by anyone on this thread, I'm sure).

Q: How do you get 1000 babies in a phone box?
A: Use a liquidiser

hunker come and join us dear!

"after all you wouldn't add milk to your own yoghurt"

I may be wrong but I thought that the basic gist of all those fancy pants drinking yoghurts (actimel/danone/yakult thingies)

but i must state i didnt teach her to do this, she did it of her own accord and i thought it showed some logical thinking (at 10 months this is just starting to emerge!)

quadrophenia, by your reasoning we sould all be giving them raw meat

I meant he likes yoghurt, it might encourage him to drink from his cup if there's yoghurt in it. I'd put a whole banana in there, but he might struggle a bit

And actually, milk plus yoghurt plus fruit makes a very nice smoothie, and we do drink those, yes.

ime eat anything near a baby and they will clearly ask for it I think that is inbuilt

I used to feed DD1 with her on my lap, one arm behind my back and the other pinned to her side while i spooned it in. She always opened her mouth when she saw the spoon coming - so was that BLW?

Just joking...

You put one of your arms behind your back to feed your child?

That's just showing off!

yes but you are changing the consistency of the food so your baby can manage it, thats what peopel who puree do.

no, she had one arm behind my back, i was standing on one leg

Zippi, DS1 didn't ask for food. Still doesn't. Sometimes points, says "Mummy's!" and eats his own.

No I'm not, I'm changing the consistency to offer it to him in a different form. Like blitzing a banana with milk to make a milkshake - which he also has.

Have you ever heard of this strange concept - it's called "cooking"?

yes although blitzing stuff ina blender to make smoothies isn't cooking is it?

it is pureeing really