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BLW - How can a 7 month old eat lumpy food????

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nallyschocolateorange · 06/04/2007 21:21

Someone on another thread about blw, when I asked them if you have to mush up pasta, said that with blw a 7 month old can eat 'real food' without having to mush it up...

Does it not get stuck in their throats and make them vomit???

I am not sure exactly what it is all about, as I have never heard of blw before. I am on baby 3 and am still learning about these things!

dd2 (7 months) will watch my spoon go from plate to mouth to plate and will try and grab my food and, if i give it to her, will put it in her mouth. However, unless it is mushed up, she looks horrified and just throws it straight back up....

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fortyplus · 06/04/2007 22:10

Won't it be Toddler led weaning?

lulumama · 06/04/2007 22:10

toddler led weaning !

AitchTwoOh · 06/04/2007 22:11

i know, forty.

fortyplus · 06/04/2007 22:11

Not like me to be one step ahead...

AitchTwoOh · 06/04/2007 22:12

i know, about the porno, not the toddler.
it's toddler led every bloody thing in our house. her majesty the baby is a benevolent dictator but a despot nevertheless.

fortyplus · 06/04/2007 22:13

Shudder! Things do get better, honest!

redbeki · 06/04/2007 22:13

my 7 month old had penne pasta for lunch today,and coped with it ok.She does gag,if it's too much for her,but it just comes back out ,then she picks up another piece.Just make sure she's got enough in front of her,and she'll decide.I'm on baby three too,and I'd wish they had B.L.W. 6 years ago,I am a complete convert.I love it.Good luck.

AitchTwoOh · 06/04/2007 22:15

redbeki, try fusilli, for some reason they don't gag on them.

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nallyschocolateorange · 06/04/2007 22:23

packet pasta (not fresh) is ok too though, yes?

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fortyplus · 06/04/2007 22:24

Packet pasta only if it's designed for babies - normal version probably too salty.

AitchTwoOh · 06/04/2007 22:24

course it is, dd's favourite meal is pasta, pesto and peas. that's when the shells come in handy. when they get their pincer grip peas are hilarious.

AitchTwoOh · 06/04/2007 22:26

i never bothered with baby pasta, but i never add salt to anything either...

redbeki · 06/04/2007 22:26

yeah ,penne is hard to grip,but it's all I had in cupboard! I'll get some twists tomorrow.

fortyplus · 06/04/2007 22:26

Sorry - thought you meant the stuff with a ready made sauce. Of course normal dried plain pasta is fine

fortyplus · 06/04/2007 22:27

With a nice home made sauce - great way of getting veg into children

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nallyschocolateorange · 06/04/2007 22:34

how about cereal????

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AitchTwoOh · 06/04/2007 22:38

dd eats mini shreddies and porridge pancakes. search the blog for my elaborated thoughts...

PinkTulips · 06/04/2007 22:40

~my ds has been eating spaghetti since he was 6 months... he can manage it better than his 2 year old sister!

so far the only thing he's really choked on was a pancake on sunday but as he has them every week i don't think it was the food itself, just that it went down the wrong way.

tbh, dp and i find that he seems to gag alot less than his sister did on purees and he certainly enjoys his food far more than she ever did. not to mention the sheer joy of being able to sit down for a meal at the dinner table all together eating the same food.... HEAVEN!

i've converted a fair few at toddler group by demonstrating ds eating chunks of able happily at 8 months and am evangelising at swimming now

bigbird2003 · 07/04/2007 02:02

Parent head on here.......mine were weaned betweeen 4-5 months (guidlelines then)

By 7 months they were all on the equivlalent of BLW, ie were developmentally able to feed themselves

Now the guidelines have changed, someone somewhere needs to update the weaning process for new mums....a 3 month old needs purees, a 7 month old does not! Ask people who had children when I did, we all had babies eating 'normal' food by 7 months

I wonder when practise/advise will catch up with guidelines (still think the term BLW is pants! lol)

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nallyschocolateorange · 07/04/2007 09:57

well, the update is....dd2 had eggy bread (egg is allowed right?) for breakfast and 1/3rd of a banana, not mushed.
(i had egg on toast and the rest of the banana.)
she did quite well, gagged a bit but was not sick as the lumpy bits that she could not cope with dribbled out of her mouth. she was very keen to stuff the next bit in, so was not deterred in the slightest.
is this success?

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redbeki · 07/04/2007 10:42

Sounds like a definate step in the right direction Nally.Keep going.

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nallyschocolateorange · 07/04/2007 11:23

ok, this is good then. was nice to see her looking interested in the food, rather than the bored "not that mush again" expression she usually wears!

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Lio · 07/04/2007 15:45

aitch of course you can put it on the blog - even it is a tip from someone who is a reluctant blw-er

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nallyschocolateorange · 07/04/2007 20:59

had some roast dinner too. kept giggling all over the place. probably feels like a grown-up!

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AitchTwoOh · 07/04/2007 22:00

great news, nally.