Baby Led Weaning

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Enough of this argumentative chat and one upmanship.

My DD has fairly poor hand eye coordination, can't tell a spoon from a rattle etc.
We have started weaning her on purees, and that is what we feel comfortable with and what is right for her.
Fair enough some of your children were sitting upright at 7 months and able to grasp and eat finger foods without choking but that is not the same for everyone.

Stop your militant interruption onto every thread linking to BLW websites. Some babies cannot handle it, and some mothers are not comfortable with it. Surely your 'prophecy' is about it being easy and free for thebaby and the mother, so please just get out of our faces.

interesting. I wonder what holding out a loaded spoon counts as?

i.e. load spoon hold out in direction of baby?

dd2 either
a) clamps her mouth round it and looks pleased

b)bats it away.

or
c)takes it and bangs it on the table.

I think there is a huge difference between using spoons and spooning.

how I didn't say obv

Exactly, PI, I'm just the same. Have given them porridge on a spoon - hand them a spoon, they take the spoon from me and either eat the porridge or smear it lovingly on the dog.

I remember discussing this aaaages ago with aitch when the BLW discussions were relatively new, and agreeing that the spoon itself was not the point. Aitch has never said any different and I admire her patience.

It's a bit frustrating that people tend to focus on spoons in these discussions tbh.

Oh, and yes, I do the same about consciously trying not to look pleased about them eating! Has worked with 2.9 year old dd1 - no food battles apart from her wanting to eat smoked salmon by the pound.

PI, great point about the spoon and not making the baby eat. You can take the baby to the food, but you can't make him eat! If DS doesn't seem interested, I don't distract and shovel either. If he shakes his head, I take it as a "no thanks". If he's picked something up and is chewing on it, the spoon doesn't even get lifted out the bowl.

Now I'm justifying myself too!

Aitch, maybe I have misread/misunderstood some of your previous posts on other threads - or maybe it's my issues that are clouding how I read them....!!!