strong views frol Gill Rapley

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Not sure how I feel about her comments that pureed food could cause health problems in later life.

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gawd, if i'd just read that and not known anything about BLW i'd be more than a bit pissed off with her, tbh.

HOWEVER, i can't actually find a quote from her using the word 'natural' at all... both the beeb and the observer use it but not Gill Rapley, so far as i can see. (but then i was up 'til three last night working and have done two interviews in town today so may well be havering. Enid, please feel free to point out where... and at your kind comments re my blog ).

i think a sub has written the headline and standfirst and it's been picked up by the bbc. her own quotes seem quite consistent with everything she's said before, really. certainly feeding your baby jars of processed food is 'unnatural', in the sense that all processed food is but i'd be raging about all the unnatural/natural business if i was her, given that she doesn't appear to have said it.
i'm not wrong, am i? she didn't say it? [wan]

Ok, point taken she probably has seen more 'normal' babies than Prof. Candy but I see no reason not to believe him either - so I would trust him, Terramum.

(agree, Aitch, it doesn't seem quite 'her' - from what I've read ).

Aitch - I was wondering what you would make of the article!

Does anybody know why BLW is suddenly in the news? neither the bbc nor the observer article give much helpful info.

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Yes, I expect thats it Pruners.

oooh, yeah, i wonder if that's it. not my dept i should say, i'm strictly boys, telly and make-up.

Some very very shoddy reporting of this on BBC breakfast. Yes, I know, it's a paragon of journalistic integrity, but good god, could they not find anyone at all to provide some balance?

I started both mine on purees - DS at 17 weeks (according to guidelines I was given) and DD at 23 weeks (although guidelines were 6 months). DS I progressed through lots of things and by 6 months he was having mashed food and stewed fruit rather than purees. By 10 months he was finger feeding/self spoon feeding because he refused to let me help him and was basically on family food. I have never used salt in cooking and cook from scratch. He is one of the least fussy eaters I know at 6. He doesn't like tomatoes (but will eat tomato sauce based food) and that is about it. Oh, he doesn't like spinach as a seperate veg, but will eat it in pasta sauces etc.

DD had a couple of weeks on purees and finger food and then was on mashed food and was on family food also by 10 months but was less of a stubborn self feeder than DS. Now at 3 she does not eat such a good variety as DS but is not too bad.

Mmmm, BBC online reporting of this is making me wince a bit. It looks as if she's been misrepresented.

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you say....
"the reason that babies are fussy and refuse lumps is becasue parents are too scared to give finger foods"

With respect, that's a complete generalisation and tosh. I am v v lazy and no way did I want to do old fashioned weaning when blw with finger foods sounds soooo much easier. I started ds2 on finger foods at 6 months, he held out for about 2 weeks just pushing it about the high chair tray or squishing it in his hands but he would not put any of it in his mouth. I wasn't going to sneak it into his open mouth but I decided to offer a puree and see if he went for it. He did and enjoys a variety of stuff, is making progress on lumps and recently leant forward to wrap his gums round his older brothers ice lolly. I frequently offer a chunk of something along side the mashed up version but he still won't take it to his mouth.

I'm doing baby led weaning in as much as I'm following what my baby prefers to do, I'm being led by him !

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I dont think it's extremism Pruni. (This whole post isnt directed at you, its just a response to your comment)

I think its a backlash reaction to people who just seem intent to piss on other peoples parades, dismiss anything different, and tear things to pieces if it doesnt fit their particular way of parenting.

What you end up with is a group of people who feel the need to constantly justify their actions because folk seem to want to rip them, and their ideas, apart constantly.

There hasnt been much reasoned 'debate' on this subject, rather more that folk who have taken a snapshot idea of what its about - misinterpreted it in a similar way to the BBC, and taken it upon themselves to ridicule the whole thing. And what for? Well, its not for me to speculate, but it does beg the question, doesnt it?

I can see why Hunker decided to give MN a miss for a few months.

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"I think its a backlash reaction to people who just seem intent to piss on other peoples parades, dismiss anything different, and tear things to pieces if it doesnt fit their particular way of parenting."

really? can you not even entertain the fact that some people, intelligent, reasoned people, think its the Emperors New Clothes? Even if you don't agree with them?

are we allowed to say it is a load of bollocks or is that rude?

tia

Emperor's new clothes - a good analogy IMHO.

I mean GF's books just recycle a lot of old fashioned basic babycare advice and they sell thousands making her plenty of money.

I smell a hint of a future book here, picture of author on the back cover "GR has XXX years of experience as a H.V. blah blah blah...." Quotes of devotees, some maybe even celebrity mothers, to support this method of weaning as the only/best way to do it.

Of course the weaning guidelines needed revising as we are no longer supposed to be weaning at 3 months but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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