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.

here

blimey.
I think GR genuinely cares about baby feeding and is committed to it.
I think GR genuinely believes this is a good thing to do.
I think any comparison with GF is waaaaaaaaaaaay off the mark, unless GR has suddenly started charging people £40 to join her website or advising people to refuse to feed their six month old twins for seven hours so that they are "screaming the place down with hunger" to make sure they will take formula that's my favourite case study of all can you tell.
I think that this story has been blown massively out of proportion by the media, fairly obviously

Yes agree that comparison with GF not fair
Yes agree that GR cares very much about babies and mothers and feeding
Yes agree that it has probably been blown out of proportion by the media
Yes agree that BLW great for some
Yes agree that 6 month new weaning guideline excellent

But...also afraid that it will become another stick to beat mothers with (and I am afraid this article goes someway to confirm this - witness mothers justifying purees)

that's just media bull shit though isn't it.
tiresome but not GR's fault.

dunno

dont know her

maybe she has hired a pr agency and they are getting her to be more hardline to grab news coverage? Publishers will probably inssit if she does have a dvd/book out, sadly.

shame on us for being such willing patsies then.
the media sets out artificial conflict and we just line up behind it.

well it was ever thus

shite I agree

ah that is relative though lapin

Why is blw less effort? Mine are hoofing teenagers so my weaning days are long gone but I don'see why it is less effort

We used to whizz in blender/mash up what we were eating in the beginning so isn;t BLW just missing this part out?

I don't think these 'new' child rearing methods are new at all. It's just somebody packaging them differently. The strict routine methods are what my mother was advised to do. No picking baby up, rigid feeding etc In the 70's it all became alot more relaxed and 'baby led'(feeding on demand, cuddles and interaction)

With weaning, we started 2 months earlier, so by 6 months our babies were moving on to an un named BLW. Now it is all confused, the books and jars give advice for a 4 month old, so it is all out of date advise

Seems to me, these experts and they way it is reported by media just want to make it harder for parents by making them they are getting it wrong. And that is so unfair

Where is she in all this though? I understand it was discussed on BBC Breakfast this morning, but she wasn't there.

Come on woman, tell us what it's really all about!

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Umm, haven't read all the thread but I'm not sure all solid solid food is a good idea. I've started to BLW my son. He had steamed carrot sticks on Sunday. On monday we had pooh with large chunks carrot stick in it. Not sure having big lumps of undigested carrot in his tummy can have been v comfortable. He definately had to work hard to get them out anyway!

Not sure if that's normal for BLW?

It is less effort. I've weaned 2 in 3 years, one on purees and mashes, the other BLW. And it's so much easier this time round.

It's just the analogy of common sense stuff being passed off as a revolutionary way forward.

We all gave our babies finger food at one time or another even if we did pureed food from 3 months. It's just a stage.

The hype about giving finger foods only seems a bit suspect if it stops people thinking for themselves and giving stewed apple or fromage frais etc because you need a spoon for those.

Lets consider a world where H.V.'s are taught this as the way to wean just as some of them frown on anything other than exclusive breastfeeding as it is the NHS guideline to which they must adhere.

Cue government sanctioned guilt trip for any mother allowing her baby to have anything not classed as finger food.

it is less effort when you just give them whatever you feel like - sandwiches and chopped up veg one day or spooned in spag bol the next

that is less effort

lol no you nkow what I mean

sometimes dd3 had sandwiches etc that she fed herself
sometimes she had spooned in lasagne

That post is in response to those who say the comparison with GF is not fair.

so a tiny bit less effort. I loved the spoon feeding stage, fabulous time for interaction, perfect opportunity for babies to mimic mouth movements, just a lovely time

Isn't some of that lost by just putting food on a tray? (Not a critisism as I think what works for them, is what parents should go with....I'd prob do a bit of both if I had babies again)

Not seeing that minorityrules, we all sit together, each have a sandwich, we're interacting, she's a bit less passive in it all I'd say, her mouth's moving clearly. And it's a lot of fun to give her something new and see how she decides to hold it, chew on it and how much she likes it.

I enjoyed spoon feeding too

but I also enjoyed seeing her feed ehrself breakfast

both are good

I found spoon feeding so unrewarding. It took ages to get a weany bit in, and if she refused a mixture, what didn't she like?

I remember how happy I was when DD1 firstly would have sandwiches (although tiny and administered by me!), then the day when she fed herself some ommelette and I just sat and watched (oh, and phoned my mum to tell her).

Would you spoonfeed purees to anyone else who was physically able to manage "whole" food? To me, that's the main point of BLW - you've waited that long, so you're off at a gallop.