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BLW and cutlery

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BFFs · 27/06/2021 19:58

Hello everyone!
So I expect this is a very stupid question but here goes anyway…

I am so confused by the term baby led weaning, particularly when it is defined in comparison to spoon feeding. I have recently bought a BLW cookbook and a good 50% of recipes would require a spoon in my opinion (soup being an example that immediately springs to mind!). Is the difference that in BLW the baby feeds themselves with the spoon - active vs passive? The same goes for so many other recipes - cottage pie, fish pies, macaroni… surely baby eats these with cutlery rather than their fingers? And if so, then surely they need help as they would be unable to use cutlery when you start to wean them? Meaning that these BLW recipes actually require you to spoon feed them (or at very least help)?!?

TIA!!

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BunnyRuddington · 28/06/2021 08:38

I didn't give them cutlery either those foods although maybe didn't give soup until a little older. I personally can't see why those foods can't be eaten with their fingers. Our DD managed a roast dinner with her fingers after 2 weeks of starting weaning, but then she would never have let us near her with a spoon anyway.

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