BLW's sick of the mess? My partner came up with this brilliant idea....

[Lovelove]

This has SO cut down my meal time stress! We've just started using a squeegee on a long stick, its fantastic, clears up all the bits in seconds, and then you go over the floor with a Dettol floor wipe. Think it would only work on laminate or vinyl though! All those months I've spent grovelling arond under the high chair using up half a kitchen roll....

My DH recommends feeding them in the garden then pressure washing them afterwards.

we have one of those littlelapin - just bought a square metre of tablecloth. It looks a bit scruffy after a few goes on the machine but it's cheap and can always get another one if it looks too awful.

DS3 just started doing well with a spoon but it means when he's had enough, he chucks the whole bowl over the edge and not just the bits of finger food he had left..

I think Sidge's DH has the best solution! Incidentally my DS is 1 with no sign of the throwing/dropping coming to an end. Does it ever stop?

We feed lo in the livingroom which has carpet- we bought a cheap vinyl tablecloth from woolies and it catches most of the mess.

We've also had another revelation though! Our lo hates having his face and hands washed after he's eaten, so we have discovered Baby Led Cleaning! We give him a warm damp flannel and he chews it and faffs with it, and rubs his face in it- in a minute or two he's mostly clean lol No screeching, no grumbling, no fuss!

What do you mean by a squeegee? a sponge?

no..one of them things you clean windows with..Do they have a proper name?

lovelove, mines 9 months, it's strange how his eating skills improve dramatically when it's chopped plum (his favourite) or a biscuit on the tray, versus broccoli, where he suddenly gets all "developmental" and starts flinging it off the edge of the tray to see where it lands...

oh, one of those.

I just realised I've never cleaned our windows.

i recommend a dog .

or two

food does not even hit the floor !

OK folks...you heard it here first. All you need to feed a baby is a squeegee, a plastic sheet, a pressure hose and 2 dogs! Easy.....

Baby led cleaning!! That's class!

forget the dog, the floor will be clean all right but the kid will still be hungry too. the dog will be quick enough to steal before little one could even try to get it in his own mouth first. been there, done that now the dog is behind the gate at feeding times. he cleans after though.

aha! Think we'll be trying the bably led cleaning1 LOL

oops bably baby