BLW classes

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Hi!
I am a mum of two, a registered nurse and hv and I am trying to find a better way of combining kids and work life.
I had an idea of running BLW classes that would cover basics of BLW, tips, recipes etc. There would be a lot of emphasis on healthy eating.Would there be any interest for something like this? Would you pay £20 for a 2 hour class? Any comments and feedback highly welcome!!

I would definitely have paid for this

The closest thing I found was an NCT all-day course which seemed to cover too much

I didn't do it so can't comment on it's usefulness but what you're suggesting is exactly what I would have wanted to go to

With one caveat: not if it was a 'purée is evil' preachy one...

Thank you tenbob for your comments, really appreciate it. And definitely no preaching or debate which method is better

to be honest no, to me the advantage of BLW is that feeding your baby is no different to feeding yourself. Having classes and recipes just starts to Anabelle Karmelify it again. I think there is a space for doing something for parents of babies that age (if only to break up their day) but probably not that

Thank you for your input drwitch, all opinions welcome 😊

I absolutely wouldn't have. All the info needed is online for free, and the point for me was being able to eat the same things, no special recipes or faffing about.

Sorry I agree with PP. I chose BLW due to its minimal effort, I made myself food and gave some to baby...no new recepies or extra info required really. Although someone telling me to be less smug when they eat everything would have been helpful because toddlers suddenly get fussy regardless of weaning process!
although not for me, if doing it then I would suggest doing it over lunch time so can all eat together which is the point of BLW, you can share meals straight away which is such an important social thing.

I'm your target market (first time mother, starting weaning next week) and I wouldn't pay/attend this for the reasons above.

What about Breasfeeding support/education? I spent hours researching before DS arrived and would have gone to a class on that.

I 100% agree about the recipes and I was mainly thinking about healthy snack muffins etc. But all comments are welcome, no point putting hours and hours of work into something if there is no need for anything like this

In our area the health visitors do a weaning class with heavy emphasis on blw for free. Recipes and advice are available on line, on forums such as mumsnet.

No, for the reasons above. Agree that breastfeeding support may be more helpful and may open more doors.

How big is your flat/house another option would be to run something for people to do to when post natal groups finish. That sort of thing was covered by sure start centres but now they have gone there is a real gap. I would definiately have paid £3 or £4 to have somewhere to go that was out of the house, where the baby was safe, where I could chat to other parents and have some useful advice on tap

See in my area the hv:s don’t support BLW but there are lots of brilliant post natal groups and sure start centres with bf support

Me and most of my ante natal group turned up to our local children's centre for a free one hour class on weaning and it was pretty hopeless. It was completely puree focused and the instructor was very vague and the session was unstructured. I think most of us would have paid £10-15ish for a session where the advice was better, the instructor more confident and organised, and where if we had questions she couldn't answer, she would get back to us afterwards with some info. This might be area dependent though - we're in South London.

Actually if there were recipe handouts etc, I think you could justify £20. I would pay it, personally.

I think being a nurse you’d have more chance of it hitting off if you combined it with a BLS/ choking teaching session. It’s something lots of parents want to learn and in my experience is a big worry of a lot of mums looking at BLW.

Thank you everyone for your comments

I would have attended a class like this. I’m doing blw but would have appreciated a class with really quick easy minimal ingredient recipes with low/no salt. Many people rely on jar of Dolmio and don’t know how to make a spag Bol without one!