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Help! How to baby led wean on holiday

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Expectingfirstbaby · 08/02/2023 10:57

Our baby is 6 months and we've started baby led weaning. She's been eating purees and mashed foods for a few weeks now, gradually introducing different textures. Usually I'll hand her a preloaded spoon, she'll eat/suck on it then fling it away. It's a messy experience but fine at home. We recently introduced finger foods and same deal - nibble/suck then flung to the floor.

How do I baby led wean on holiday? I could either do morning bottle and weaning in the hotel room, so more private. But that would take a while. Or I could feed bottle In the room and then wean baby while we eat breakfast downstairs. Which I'd prefer but would feel quite self conscious about the mess. Or should I just spoon feed her for the 2 weeks we're on holiday? Would that interfere with trying to get her to use cutlery and feed herself in the long run?

Also would you feed baby bits from the hotel buffet? Like weetabix with milk and a mashed banana, Greek yoghurt, sticks of avocado etc?

What would you do?

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FlounderingFruitcake · 08/02/2023 15:15

HopelesslyHopeful87 · 08/02/2023 14:36

Macaroni46

You're assuming I would be giving my baby a pot of yogurt and letting him fling it everywhere when in actual fact finger foods at 6mo such as rice cakes/breadsticks/wraps/fruit just make crumbs which I have stated I always clean.

I would never be told by another person to spoon feed my child if that wasn't how I was weaning. I've baby led weaned 4 kids, the eldest being 15yo and the youngest currently 16mo. I have never spoon fed anything. I have never been asked to leave a restaurant. I have never come across another person in said restaurant that wanted to be moved away from my children.

It's people like you that make people like the OP worry about things that aren't worth worrying about.

I hope you have a nice day in your narrow minded world.

It’s great BLW worked so well for your 4. I did it with my youngest mostly because he wasn’t having being spoonfed and I agree it was great. In fact I found there was more of a ‘floor shame’ which yes I do clean up, once they progressed onto real meals with cutlery! OP however has said though with her LO that it’s messy and that food does flung - that is really not ok in a restaurant!

Oblomov23 · 08/02/2023 15:18

You are way overthinking this. Do whatever suits, spoon, blw, whatever.

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/02/2023 15:25

LaviniasBigBloomers · 08/02/2023 11:12

I agree with don't overthink it - consider the breakfast buffet an amazing opportunity for baby to try lots of new things without you having to go to the expense of buying bags of different fruit and veg! Bits of avo, mushed up berries, toast, cereal, all perfect. At 6 - 7 months weaning is about trying new things and skills, most of her nutrition will still come from milk.

What I would say though is - take a big plastic mat and a tonne of wipes. Ask to be seated on a hard floor area rather than a carpet. Make a visible effort to pick up after yourselves. And tip. No-one ever tips the breakfast staff! You will see the same faces every day at breakfast so be friendly, help clear up and leave them a wee bit of cash at the end of your stay.

Enjoy it!

Oh breadsticks are your friend by the way, if you see the individually wrapped packets when you're out and about stick them in your bag. Never met a baby who doesn't like to smoosh on a breadstick!

This is all great advice. Especially tipping. We used to refer to the DD Tip. Which was significant. Once you've done that a couple of times people want you in their section, even if there is a little mess you've missed in your effort to clean.

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/02/2023 15:30

Well said.

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/02/2023 15:31

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/02/2023 15:30

Well said.

That was meant for the lets not derail the thread.

MaggieMagpie357 · 08/02/2023 15:47

@F4chrissakes BLW is a new thing? That's odd, seeing as DD was doing it 17 years ago.....

F4chrissakes · 08/02/2023 20:52

I meant BLW is a relatively new thing. My kids are around 40 now....

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