Stupid BLW problems

[StealthPolarBear]

I've been doing BLW for about 5 weeks now. Started with just vegetable sticks on an evening then when he was 26 weeks gave him a bit more variety, chicken, bread, pasta etc. My problem is that I can only be bothered to give him one meal a day, as otherwise I feel that by the time I've prepared the food, he's eaten (very little) of it, I've cleaned him, the chair and the floor, it's time for the next meal! I don't really know what advice I want, and I know BLW is messy and time consuming. When should he be on more than one meal a day? Am I causing any problems by doing this? He still has as much milk as he ever did, is putting on weight and sleeping well.

I have a feeling this will be easier when we've moved and will be feeding him on a wooden floor not carpet!

I bought a square of plastic table cloth stuf and that goes under the high chair and that contains the mess (a bit!)

oh i've got that but he's got a good aim

lol - know what you mean

I agree, wooden floors are much easier! I'd be tearing my hair out if I had carpet!

oh I'm quite glad to find this thread

I could've posted the op, stealth - am not finidng it as easy as everyone says and with the screeching thing that I've posted about elsewhere, it has not been that much fun either.

Can't just feed him off my plate, mainly because we seem to eat a LOT of stuff that the food-introducing schedules advise to leave for a bit - I've been eating tofu, lentils, baked beans with veg in, etc. Far as I can see these are all for dc's older than 7m.

As well, ds has a few little eczema spots and my sister's family have food allergies up the wing-wang, so ... toast, pasta, dairy - all out, for the time being at least. (Someone correct me if I've misread the schedules!)

So atm Ds is getting a variety of veg sticks, avocado and rice cakes - and that, it turns out, is plenty of slime to clean up/scrub out of clothes (who the hell knew avocado stained so badly?!) for me, for now.

And we DO have carpet!

Oh boy am I glad to find this thread.

Dd2 is 9 months old now, and does love her food, but like phdlife, we're a bit screwed by allergy issues. Am trying to keep her gluten and dairy free, which means she can't normally have a bit of what I'm having, and then combine that with dd1's food issues (she has ASD) and I'm definitely cooking 3 separate meals each time. Not fun.

I do worry about dd2 having a "complete" meal (especially since I've not introduced whole food groups) so I can't relax and just give her steamed veg bits etc.

We have at least rearranged our house this week, and so the dining room is now in a room with a wooden floor, not a carpet [relief emoticon]

at silverfrog being able to rearrange house! our entire blardy flat is carpeted except kitchen, which only has 2m square floorspace - hardly going to put a highchair there - ds would be able to reach EVERYTHING!

wonder if I could feed him in the bathtub?

ah, but the house rearranging now dictates (very complicated chain of furniture has been moved around!) that dd1 must be moved into a bed - so I win on the floor cleaning, but probably lose out on several hours sleep...

we are going for the big move this weekend [not really looking forward to it emoticon]

ah - I am procrastinating on the bit of our house-rearrange that means turning the study into a nursery. so far ds still in our room and... i kinda like it that way! (not to mention, I can't face figuring out what to do with the contents of the study... [sigh])

Yay! i've had a very small break through! Last night i made stir fry chicken, i took out some chicken, sugarnap peas and baby sweetcorn and some onion before i added the sauces and gave this to her whilst we ate our own dinner. I also added a sizeable chunk of cheese as she seems to like cheese. Instead of moaning the minute i put the food down she looked quite interested and picked up the baby sweetcorn and chewed on it, she put it down after eating a quarter of it and picked up a sugarsnap pea, nibbled the end off it. Put it down and put the onion in her mouth rolled it around swallowed it and then picked up the cheese and ate most of it. She still didn't eat enough to sustain a flea but what made me excited was first of all the interest, the total lack of moaning, the way she picked things up tried them, picked something else up and kept coming back to the cheese and sweetcorn as these were clearly her favourites, and the way she's learnt to use her tongue to push and keep the food to the side of her mouth where she can chew on it. This morning she ate a bit of marmite and toast and she clamped the bread on the side of her mouth and pulled her fist away to break bits off, and lunch she ate 5 grapes broken in half and impressed me with the dextrousness she showed by she picking it up in her finger and thumb and accurately placing it in to her mouth and she managed to chew on it without it flying out her mouth. Still not eating much but there's some glimmer of hope!

i think the thing to remember as well is that there's always ups and downs, some weeks they will seem dead interested and eat loads, and others they aren't interested AT ALL and hardly eat anything.

My HV assures me that this is the case with pureed babies too, and to just go with the flow - (she's quite supportive actually, although i think that's partly cos he's 8 months and still bfing - she gets excited )

So congratulations that yuou had a good day today, but also just chill out and enjoy it in the future and don't panic !

Hi all, just reading this thread with interest. we've another 5 weeks till we start. Just wondered would you recommend a wipe clean tablecloth for the floor or a sheet or something you could just bung in the machine?

i think the best accessory of all is a dog

asampras that is really good news... sounds to me like it went really well.
isaw... i would.

Good news, asampras!
I think one of my favourite things about BLW is seeing DS choose what he would like to eat. I never would have credited a 7.5month old to have tastes and opinions about what they would like to eat, past 'hungry' or 'not hungry' (IYSWIM).