quick brag, i'm so happy!

[EmilyandLola]

I never likd the idea of spoon feeding glupe into my ickle daughter, I didn't like the food, so why should I make her eat it, so have been BLW from the start.

I am so chuffed, at dinner time tonight, she ate lemon cous cous, roasted vegetables (peppers, onions and courgettes!!) and then sucked to death a pork spare rib! She was filthy, then topped it off with a pile of orange segments and mummy's home made yoghurt's and puree pudding (yes, I spoon fed this)

I am so pleased! I have been so hacked off with all the family and other people who see her telling me I'm doing it all wrong by not giving her purees like everyone else.

BLW does work, its so convenient, Lola loves her food and eats just what we eat, which makes life SO easy, like when we go out to restaurants, she steals food off my plate!

oh, and she's not even 7 months yet

I agree,it's the best way,we love it too.

emandl, that sounds really impressive i must say. dd still hates couscous, it's something about the texture. she picks it up about ten times but is horrified every time.

Aitch - cous cous feels funny on the fingers (try it, it sort of feels cold even when it's heated). But you can try adding a bit of soft cheese or humous and it coats the grains and makes them nicer to handle (oh perleeeaze don't ask how I know this).

hhhm, interesting. how do you know that?

lol - my 9 month old DS had chicken couscous with us tonight and and he really enjoyed picking up handfuls and flinging it around the place. He got some in his mouth as well though, clever boy.

Today, DH took DS "out" out for the first time and I made a packed lunch for them both. I have this wonderful mental image of them sitting under a tree munching sandwiches together.

Littlelapin - we actually got the camera out to record ds2's enjoyment of spag bol the other week. His face was orange from eye-level down!

ahem. and will you be sending it for publication?

I've put it on my profile. Once I'd trawled through dh's gazillion pics to find the file.

that is gorgeous, please send it to me... aitch at bablyledweaning dot com.

er, baby, not bably...

Do you still want it, if I confess that I'm not so much a BLWer as a lazy mummy who can't be bothered feeding her own child with a spoon sometimes?

oh, and fankoo, for saying gorgeous. He actually recognises that word and goes all coy and squirmy when people say it to him. It's very cute indeed.

WHAT? i could have sworn i'd seen you on the blw threads...

I kind of flirt with it. (While recognising that's not actually possible). You may well have seen me on BLW threads. It's entirely possible, but RL gets in the way of my MN memory these days.

He feeds himself. He has what we're having. He throws a LOT of it on the floor. And I am confident that he has enough milk to be perfectly healthy and happy. But I will confess to not having started out that way, because he was way happier to be fed off a spoon to begin with.

So, confession over. Do you still want the picture? No offence if you don't.

course i do, you eejit. personally i think blw is a way of thinking about food and feeding children rahter than a regime, iykwim? it's just sometimes on here when people come on and just slag it all off then things start to appear much more entrenched than they actually are...

Think I have sent it to you.