OK, we all know the term 'BLW' is poo. Could we invite Gill Rapley round to MN for a cup of tea, and very gently break it to her

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... sorry, enough title, break it to her that we LOVE the idea, but it's causing confusion here, and would she mind suggesting another name?

Aitch, are you in touch with her at all? Do you think she'd be open to the idea?

I have thought this too. Too sleep deprived to think of an alternative right now though.

why does it have to be called anything? just do it as the saying goes

I think it does need to be called something. It shouldn't matter, but people want to discuss it here and it's awkward having no name.

At the same time, calling it "BLW" wastes a lot of time because people get bogged down in arguments about how the baby isn't really leading it.

Mother left cleaning weaning?

Who is Gill Rapley?

tbh... this is the only site that the term causes any confusion, from what i've seen.
most sites aren't so, er, attritional in nature. so given that it would be an exclusively MN term, we can call it whatever we like...

at "attritional". Indeed.

Will Gill Rapley, whoever she is, please come and chisel the porridge off my Tripp Trapp chair before we start again tomorrow?
Adult size bib anyone?

What is this all about, can someone explain what it all means?

I quite like it, actually, as a term.
I mean, it expresses the whole point rather succinctly doesn't it?
I think the only problem really comes from people who don't choose to do it, who see in it some sort of implied criticism.
I don't think the term needs changing
imo

I know what BLW is I just don't see what this woman has to do with it. I've heard of the term from other websites, I had no idea she invented the term. I don't know that the practice needs a name, but in this day of TMing everything...

Thanks, Littlelapin, all is clear. Or not, as it seems, but i know what you're talking about now!
Getting too late at night to worry about being grammatically correct!!

i personally think that if i'd had the choice myself, i'd have gone for Baby Self-feeding. but GR obviously didn't think of that...

Not really TMing, but it's handy to have a term to use rather than saying, "You know, where you let the baby self feed when they are ready so that they dictate the pace of weaning, and if you do that you can give them chunks of food without pureeing if such is your preference, and using a spoon isn't contrary to the idea as long as the baby is in control of the spoon and etc etc etc" every time you want to discuss it.

cristina, BLW the name comes from a thesis she is writing and from a small piece of research she conducted. so she basically 'invented' the term and the whole way of thinking about weaning at 6 months, with reference to gut maturity and motor skills etc. she absolutely did not, however, invent handing food over to babies. nor, i'm certain, would she claim to.

OK, it's a shorthand, but just as artificial as "attachment parenting" and sounds just as market-driven to my ears. I would never ask someone if they AP, I doubt I'd ask someone if they BLW. Sounds too much like doctrine to me rather than muddling through.

By giving it a name it makes it sound new fangled and trendy, maybe we should think of a name for the alternative.
I like to think I do BLW. Aitch do you do a blog, or is that someone else?

I like baby self feeding, and BSF isn't too bad.