Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Weaning

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

Flip

1 2 3 4 5

Original poster

BLW - Can I have a show of hands, please?

121 replies

MummyTL · 26/05/2007 20:58

Purely out of curiosity, and in no way to pass judgement, here's a quick poll for parents with babies who are being weaned at the mo.
Are you doing BLW or pureé?
Did you start off one way and then switch to the other?
Any comments as to why you chose this particular route are very welcome. Especially from parents who had heard about BLW but chose not to. Thanks folks.

OP posts:

ruddynorah · 26/05/2007 20:59

dd is one now. we did blw. i read gill rapley's study, it made more sense to me than any other weaning info i'd read. we went with it, dd loved it. it worked great dor us.

SoupDragon · 26/05/2007 21:06

I did BabyDragon Led Weaning which is different to both. She chose to eat (or more usually not eat) however she damn well felt like at the time.

littlelapin · 26/05/2007 21:07

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

JodieG1 · 26/05/2007 21:08

I intend to BLW, ds2 is 20 weeks on Thursday so we have a few more weeks yet though.

aDad · 26/05/2007 21:08

dd2 is a few weeks into BLW. Thought everything made sense and so far so good. food is going in and is very easy to prepare and tie in with the rest of the family.

JodieG1 · 26/05/2007 21:09

For me, blw seems much more normal and natural as you do it when baby can actually get the food into their own mouth so there's no question about readiness.

hana · 26/05/2007 21:10

buy why would you pass judgement one way or another?
I do think that some people equate blw as superior than other methods
baby is hungry
baby eats

morocco · 26/05/2007 21:12

who can't help but feel smug that they don't have to get the blender out and little ice cubes of pureed carrot though???

Original poster

MummyTL · 26/05/2007 21:12

hana - the only reason I mentioned not passing judgement is that I had a stressful conversation with an HV recently who clearly didn't know anything about it, but was still willing to slag it off.

OP posts:

SoupDragon · 26/05/2007 21:15

What's to feel smug about, MOrocco?

Mercy · 26/05/2007 21:19

Agree Soupdragon.

hana · 26/05/2007 21:22

but why does it have to be this way or that way?
is it any more important than choosing a bedtime story or clothes for your children? They all eventually are able to read and dress themselves. and feed themselves too

Original poster

MummyTL · 26/05/2007 21:27

Fair point indeed, hana. Thanks for pointing it out.

OP posts:

whomovedmychocolate · 26/05/2007 21:29

BLW - we tried purees for one day - they ended up on the walls and ceiling and everywhere but DD's mouth.

Now she eats every sodding thing in sight.

morocco · 26/05/2007 21:29

sorry soupie, forgot my wink emoticon and knew as soon as I posted it would seem overly arsey, was meant in more of a jokey spirit iykwim.
just to dig a bit of a deeper hole for myself though, I still reckon not needing to dig out the itsy bitsy blender that manages to actually blend two boiled carrots and then spoon them into individual little pots is a definite step forward. I was well chuffed when I realised putting off weaning with ds2 til 6 months meant I could miss out that whole part of things. not that I'd realised it had a name or anything! it's only this time round with dd that I realise other people are still doing that pureeing thing at 6 months weaning. I'm always choosing the laziest option myself. mind you, ds2 has always been very keen on his dinners, maybe it will be a disaster with dd and I will have to eat my pureed words

ProfYaffle · 26/05/2007 21:36

With dd1 I did purees. Then she refused to eat mush and we went onto finger food only.

With dd2 I intend to do BLW, largely in line with Morocco's philosophy.

SoupDragon · 26/05/2007 21:38

"I was well chuffed when I realised putting off weaning with ds2 til 6 months meant I could miss out that whole part of things" Well, that all depends on the baby TBH.

morocco · 26/05/2007 21:41

guess so soupy, my two were well ready by then - have to wait and see what dd is like. if not, she'll just have to keep on bf til she can manage it. me and my itsy bitsy blender are not on speaking terms

Aitch · 26/05/2007 21:44

a friend told me about an article in a baby mag talking about Gill Rapley, so i looked it up. it made sense from a developmental PoV because i knew i was going to wait until 6 months, so i knew dd should be capable of self-feeding. i'm a bit lazy/geeky, so i thought i'd give it a try at least.

i utterly Cannot Be Arsed getting into a debate about this but i do think that feeding your children and encouraging them to enjoy food is a lot more important than chosing clothes or bedtime stories for them. not to say that traditional weaning doesn't encourage children to enjoy food, (i don't know anything about trad weaning, i only have dd) but the thinking behind BLW, the retention of control from day one may influence the way children feel about the common food battlegrounds that kick off when they are older. no one knows yet, but it's potentially a bit more significant than jeans vs dungarees.

SoupDragon · 26/05/2007 21:45

Let's hope you don't get a BabyDragon then. She's nearly 16 months old and still cr*p at eating, be it fingerfood or spoonfed. Although, inexplicably, she will wolf down an entire toddler sized jar of commercial gloopy shite in double quick time. Much to my utter disgust and dismay. Bah!

hana · 26/05/2007 21:46

well will have to agree to disagree then
I don't do debates, don't have the energy

Swizzler · 26/05/2007 21:47

Not BLW but grateful to MN for showing me that DS could eat finger foods from 6 months ish. He went through a stage of refusing all pureed veg (now he'll happily eat them) and my mw assured me that 6 1/2 months was far too early for finger foods. I ignored her

Swizzler · 26/05/2007 21:48

SoupDragon: DS will only eat the Plum baby foods with added quinoa . I wouldn't mind if he would eat cheaper alternatives, or the stuff I cook, but he refuses. Quinoa or nothing.

tassis · 26/05/2007 21:53

to answer the OP...i waited til almost 6 months with dd but she's only got the hang of holding foods and feeding herself in the last couple of weeks (now 8 months)...so i've done purees until now and I do rather enjoy making batches of things for her and mushing up stuff we've eaten and having a freezer full of wee pots and ice cubes and spooning it into her open mouth and her loving it all! but now she's gotten the hang of holding stuff and feeding herself i'm doing more of that.

i'd heard about BLW but chose not to because I'd done purees for ds and liked it, because I like making purees and I like spoon feeding my wee poppet and because she's got the rest of her life to do it all herself

(morocco, if I wanted to I could feel smug about my freezer full of home made baby mush...)

NoBiggy · 26/05/2007 22:04

DD2 was 4 moths or so, one evening I opened the freezer, looked at everything jammed in there and thought I'd have to have a clear out ready for ice cubes. I just got such a sinking feeling.

I think it was the same evening I did a search for weaning on the web to get me in the right frame of mind and found BLW.

I was eager to try it, so at 25+ weeks we started and it's been fan-flippin-tastic.

Flip

1 2 3 4 5

Swipe left for the next trending thread