Aitch, did you know BLW is bad for a babies organs? (I met a mad woman today!!)

[mum2seb]

Yes, you read it right! I was discussing BLW with a mum at toddlers today, and she told me I was risking ds having problems with his internal organs!!!!!????? What is she on - and what does she think I'm feeding him? And does she know anything about human biology? There really are some barmy people out there (although she's probably thinking the same thing about me!). What CAN she mean? Ideas, anyone?

what is BLW?

she must think babies stomachs cant cope with anything but purees till they are older?

Big long waffle?

Can't think of anything else...BLW??

Brown..little...

baby led weaning

rofl
some people are nutters

Wait, has your baby been chewing with his organs again?

Ohhhhh..think i am too old for this weaning thing....

what does that entail then?

(sorry)

BLW means, essentially, just feeding your baby table scraps, and skipping the whole baby-rice/puree/lots of orange/walpaper paste stage.

table-scraps makes it sound like the sort of thing you would feed the dog.

Do you scrape your plates at the end into the baby's bowl? Is that how it works?

No no, I'm being a bit oversimplistic. I think this is Aitch's blog.

I used a lot of chip-shaped things to start with. I did prepare meals specially for him, at least initially, but it was less work than pureeing.

oh she's definitely right. all those sharp chip-shaped edges poke holes in their wee tummies as they go down, didn'tchaknow? poor little perforated babes, leaking everywhere.

owwwwwwwwww... i see, you can do both though eh?!

i used to feed mine their puree, and let them suck and chew on 'finger bits', peace and quite for ages!!!!

aaah, see us BLWers just do the finger food so we get to neglect them almost conpletely!

lol@mum2sebs crazy mum conversation...now!

Some people just make it up as they go along!!!!!!!!!

lol..hardly.....mine were alwasy tooooo starving to muck around with holding finger bits until the hunger pains had subsided..then they chewed away happily.

Puree is bloomin messy stuff!!!! finger food is gooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no, my MiL has been on the rampage again. I sincerely apologise.

snowboo? is your MiL on mumsnet? [worst nightmare]

No, shes probably been lurking toddler groups to get ammo on my parenting style
Oh no, what if she IS on here?? Stalking me.

Aitch-franney is calling you on chat!

got her. thanks, i hadn't noticed.

We're learning a lot about you this week Aitch!

Not only do you have weird friends, you have a really interesting job!

thread here which you've either missed or are ignoring