Who has tried Baby Led Weaning? I'd like some feed back from people in the know!

[vino4me]

Hi all, DD is 15 weeks, and bfing well. Not to bothered about weaning until 6 months but thinking that BLW seems a good way to go.

Have you tried and tested? How did you find it - I'd like some responses from real people testing it. I keep getting oh my friend Jen's brother's girlfriend's swim teacher reckons..........

Thanks all!

Sounds like we are doing just that already so a relief as I am taking his cues.

We seem to have bred children that have their own ideas from an early age, so no problems recogising them. Had to laugh at brocolli as his face was a picture of "What the ......"

Half the problem is there is more to explain than do. It seems to me that is always the way with something natural, when you are explaining a process someone made up, it is a lot easier.

Follow your instincts and forget everything you had inbuilt with regard to weaning, is best BLW advice

Am I the only one on here who didn't know babies were "supposed" to have purees and stuff? I don't remember my mum doing any of that with my little sisters. They just grabbed things off our plates and mum would tell us which things to grab back - but she never panicked about it, just remarked "oh the gravy's salty, give her a piece of carrot instead". There were quite a lot of us so maybe it was the line of least resistance.

Well, I am proud to say that I did the butternut squash in the oven and he must of liked it as it came out the other end today!!

Great idea to do baked sticks of it. Fantastic.

Oh well done with the butternut squash. Ds had roast sweet potato but wasnt overly keen. LOVED the broccoli the night before though lovely colourful nappy too!!

Squeak was very funny with broc tonight. Sort of looked as if to say "What the hell......"

He has been teething so not alot of solids today as they hurt his mouth bless him.

Gone off to bed with Calpol and booby juice.

Oh bless him - maybe just as well tho, we had it last night too and nobody prepared me for the broccoli nappy I was to receive early this morning you probably dont want to have to deal with those at 3am!
Hope his teeth feel better soon. Babyshoes got his first last week, calpol and mummy milk worked a treat for him too although during the day cucumber straight from the fridge works nicely on poorly gums. x

I've not touched a puree since DS1 turned out so flamin finicky on the traditional weaning regime -what a PITA
To me BLW is simple - sit baby on your knee -tuck into your lunch or whatever -notice 9 month old is nicking stuff, -simple as that, no special cooking, no foods we wouldn't touch usually ,and if they nick somthing thats not quite the thing -too salty , too hard etc, then swap them for something else!
As for trees -both my 2 youngest adore them , both green trees and 'mashed potato trees' (cauliflower lol!) but so do we so they appear fairly often.
The only disadvantage of having such enthusiastic eaters is that with an 8 yo, a 4yo and a 2yo we get through around 7 pound of bananas, 6 pound of apples , 4 punnets of cherry tomatoes, 2 cucumbers and 12 loaves a week god help us when #4 arrives and starts troughing -we're thinking of getting an allotment!
Lisa x