Aaaaaaiiiitch :whiny voice: or other BLWers

[ChubbyScotsBurd]

Just been to baby clinic and my HV has told me that although it's great that I'm going to keep EBFing my 4 month old DS for now, I need to be offering him tastes of food before the golden 6 months "so he gets used to new tastes".

I nodded dutifully (and of course, I didn't mention that I was going to do BLW because then I'd have had to A) explain it, B) justify it and then C) defend myself ... so I just smiled in a "I'm going to puree things, oh yes, that's me, pass me that Moulinex" sort of way), but I am right in thinking she's talking bollocks, yes?

DS can pretty much sit up unaided, albeit in a wobbly fashion, but his grabbing is still unconscious - he can't voluntarily pick things up yet. And BFing is going fine. I mean, I have let him lick my apple core a few times, but I'm loathe to embark on the mess and strife of solids while BFing's SO easy and seems to be satisfying him perfectly well. Seems very young still to me [shrug].

it is such a load of bollllleaaaaux!

breast milk is not just one flavour is it?

there is no window of opportunity.. no need to get baby used to new tastes.. that is what weaning is for.. weaning is not just 3 full meals a day, it is introducing hte concept of food, of texture, taste, chewing, spitting out, etc.... food is for fun until you are one !

your baby will enjoy the new tastes he gets at 6 months or 7 months or whenever he starts to grab and shove food in his mouth.

you don;t need to make him do anything with food right now, nothing to be gained by doing so.

keep on with lots of milk which will be the main source of nutrition for the first year anyway

now stop yer whining !

i also would like to understand a bit more about blw. have read aitch's blog thingy but still have questions.

do they need teeth for blw?

this seems to be a universal view among HVs though, that if you don't give the baby something other than milk before 6 months then you're storing up problems (rod for your own back, anyone?).

I didn't eat aubergine until I was 23. I had not missed my aubergine window.

chubby, you got that baby sleeping for daddy yet?

well, if your baby does not have any teeth when you start BLW, you will be amazed at what those hard gums can do !!! also i found frozen banana chunks and carrot batons were very helpful for when DD was teething.

oh was talktothebees btw

camthechick, what age can you give those?

sorry bout the hijak chubs.

Bolleaux of the finest order CSB!

No teeth required at all LSAL - the gums are hard because the teeth are under the surface, so it's quite different from an old person who has lost all of their teeth and has to live on soup .

IIRc, DD started having those for helping with her teeth at around 10 months, or so. started weaning her just short of 26 weeks .

up until then, the teething powders were great but as she started cutting bigger teeth, the gnawing on cold stuff seemed to help a lot more

LOLOLOLOL particularly at Bee's aubergine window. what a lot of rot.

so you give them small chunks of food at 6mo? don't they choke?

Pieces that they can pick up themselves. Don't think we've lost a baby to this method yet have we Aitch?

finger food

like chunks of broccoli, fingers of sweet potato, apple, pear, carrot.... they might gag on bits. but that is not the same as choking.

the theory is that when a baby is old enough to pick food up and put it to its own mouth and chew, having lost the tongue thrust reflex, and able to sit up unaided, they are ready to start eating. because you are being led by the baby, you are not rushing htem into eating too soon, when they are not pyhsically ready.

ahve you had a look at the blog?

ladysnowsalot have you been talking to my mother? She could not be more worried if we'd told her we were letting DD wet shave a tiger. Which makes me feel bad that I'm not worried.

yeah but i just wanted to be sure! so you start when they can pick up food and sit up?

what if they aren't doing this at 6mo? aren't there issues concerning iron levels?

lol BWM. Who are you normally? I want to look out for you. You're funny.
[stalker alert]

Food is for fun until they are one LSAL. There aren't concerns about iron from well informed health professionals, if you can find one of those.

lol beewise

ok good. keep fobbing off hv about weaning ds who is 5 and a half months. don't feel ready yet. i think blw sounds fab though.

bees :snort: at wet shave a tiger!

Nope to daddy and sleep :sigh: but we haven't really tried tbh, too traumatised still! He'll let his dad give him a pre-bed cuddle in a room that isn't the bedroom now though ... progress ...?!

Thanks all for reassurance

I am normally talktothebees - stalk away. It will make me feel important and loved and then I can post on bounty about how weird mumsnet members are.

cswl, who are you outside the festive season? i'm finding this name changing very disconcerting.

csb surely you should be ChubbyScotsTurkey by this point in december?

Don;t shave tigers. It is cruel. And they have enough to deal with really.

My name has hardly changed . Normally CantSleepWontSleep, but what's an igh between friends?

I'm torn between turkeys, robins and partridges ... :sigh: such dilemmas in life ...

dilemmae? Oh lord now look what I've done, got to go and worry about that too now ... :sigh:

dilemmas

LOLOL at 'aubergine window'