Will I have time to get BLW established before I go back to work?

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DS will be 6 months old the week before Christmas and I'm due to go back to work full time in mid January.
He'll (fingers crossed) be going to my childminder neighbour rather than the on-site creche at my workplace which is 15 miles away so I won't be able to feed him at lunchtime.

Am I likely to get him to a reasonable stage of BLW after 5 weeks so that I'm not imposing too much on the childminder? Also any ideas for packed lunches for him would be gratefully received

what do you mean 'established'? the whoel poiint of BLW is that you let them take things at their own pace, so he may launch himself on food with great delight (like my dd) or he might decide that he isn't that fussed for a while. there's not much you can do to influence that, tbh. wrt the childminder, if she gets the point of BLW she'll find it easy but messy. there's no imposition other than wiping up, adults don't actually do anything much with BLW. loads of recipes at www.babyledweaning.com

have you talked about it to childminder? has she got t'internet? show her aitch's blog for starters. she needs to understand the idea of it. otherwise you might find her wanting to help your ds without understanding that she doesn't need to iyswim. fwiw, dd was 'established' very quickly. full christmas dinner at 7 months. that was her first taste of protein. others however are still squishing food at 8 months and drinking a ton of milk. your chimldminder needs to be comfortable with this.

hey norah! not seen you around much, have you decamped to FB?

fb? been wrking a lot, selling house, stuff stuff and more stuff..should go to bed but have busy head.

facebook. you've sold the house? this is great news, is it not? [busy head icon]

ah yes facebook. been offered part exchange by housebuilder due to multidue of cock ups... so looking good, however have now had an offer from a normal buyer, so all toooooo confusing. head hurts.

What I meant was get him interested in food so whilst she needs to supervise what's going on, she isn't tempted to spoon feed him as he will eat a variety of things. She will have another child who will be over a year by then, so if they're at roughly the same stage it will make her life easier as they could eat the same sort of things as she provides lunch once they're past the puree stage.

honestly, it just depends. after a fortnight dd was eating the same foods as a toddler, but other babies prefer milk for longer. just cross your fingers and hope for your purposes that your baby is ravenous for carrots.