Am I alone in thinking that BLW is ...well a bit gross really???

[macdoodle]

I know I am going to get slated - but reading some of these thread just uggghhhh and when do these babies learn table manners (seriously??).....its not just the mess am currently weaning my 6 month old and the mess is pretty spectacular and thats a combination of purees/spoons and finger food

yep same here - just whatever we were having so much much easier than pureeeing one veg etc at a time

So you must all eat at the same time then?

Actually, thinking back - dd's hair usually escaped, strangely enough - she'd have an orange face, and bibs would be - interesting, shall we say? - but a good wipe with a flannel usually did the trick. But I am, as I said, clearly more of a slattern. I guess you need to do what fits your personality - unless child decides for you by being a spoon-refuser.

Yup - weaning age we pretty much did

i have been slated before on here for daring to say yoghurt is not an essential food for babies. quite the opposite in fact, it has been used as easy baby food cos it's easy to spoon feed, not the other way round iyswim.

dd never had much hair at 6 months

I tended to chuck a big t-shirt over ds - worked like a full length bib. Hair and face attack with a flannel

I'm not a true BLW, I do use a spoon for yoghurts and a few other bits and bobs. But she (now 9 months old) prefers to do things herself and makes as much of a mess with our without me.

We try to eat most meals together, paulo, but if not, then usually I've some pasta sauce, chilli, curry, fishcakes etc in the freezer left over from previous meals so she has that. meemar - just didn't bother too much with yoghurt, but if she did have it, I loaded the spoon and she grabbed it off me. I don't think she'd have accepted being spoonfed anyway, tbh.

Habbibu - out of interest, did you not bother with yogurt much because it was more of a spoon food IYSWIM?

Just curious, because on a BLW thread in the past I remember someone asking about it and being told 'let them eat it with their fingers, or just don't give yogurt'. It sounded odd at the time because it was like the principle of not using a spoon was the most important thing!

McDoodle get a dog

my baby has TONS of hair and so far at 6.5mths both finger foods and mashed stuff (I don't think I can call it puree as I don't own any kind of mixer thing, so it's as pureed as a fork can do!) have avoided the hair, it all goes down the way instead, to the joy of our dog.

(waves to macdoodle!) - it hasn't been overly gross so far I have to say...just a bit depressing when you have taken time to roast veg or whatever and she just drops it on the floor

BUT we do not eat very well, I realise that now...I've just done a shopping list and I'm going to try to get back to doing proper cooking like I used to, with real veggies in and everything!! So that there isn't separate prep for dd iyswim

waffle waffle...what was the question...

oh - she can put a loaded spoon in her mouth already and we've only been doing this less than 2wks, I think that must be a good start re table manners?!

ds just has a couple of "grubby" shirts, usually ruined early on by banana or avocado. (Have only just begun to get him to wear a bib for more than 2 minutes!) These days he eats a lot of meals topless - easier to wash

i know what you mean meemar, the whole spoon thing....I am going to take the approach that some foods need to be spooned and that is that - if dd is happy to be spoon fed I'd say that's baby led - and she is equally happy with finger foods

Um - initially we didn't do "pudding" that much, so it was a bit moot, and then I started to give her yoghurt a bit, but it was a bit more of a faff to help her so much! I think the general BLW consensus these days is avoiding "spooning" rather than spoons - emphasis on the baby getting the food into their mouths themselves, in whatever way suits baby/parent.

She always snatched stuff out of my hand anyway, so the opportunity for "spoon-feeding" never really arose.

Going to be thought of as really dense but....what's blw?

Baby Led Weaning, lm - it's just a way of weaning where the baby feeds him or herself right from the start.

Thank you actually a fairly reasoned debate/convo rather than being yelled at ...it was the thread on sheperds pie that made me think yuk
My DD2 nearly 6 months is pretty good at spoon feeding herself...well her hair her nose her ears the walls

Ah, well, shepherds pie has that effect on me anyway! Aitch and I had a theory that our own aversion to sloppy foods made BLW quite appealing. I do remember hating the look of purees, and thinking of the texture makes me a bit queasy sometimes, so I think there is something in it. But no, I don;t think there should be yelling on a weaning thread any more than there should be one on a mooncups thread. Horses for courses, and all that.

My DS3 (11 months) is insisting now on feeding himself.

That said, the best thing I think came from BLW for us is how it does not allow you to think in terms of quantity. You just don't know how much they're getting, and have to take a lot on trust - so some days they eat loads, some days hardly anything, and you end up being quite chilled about it. That isn't to say at all that you can't be that chilled by not doing blw, but it just kind of forces you down that path anyway.

mooncups yuk again then sorry slightly tipsy BF mum on half a glass of rose

HOW DARE YOU SAY YUCK ABOUT MOONCUPS!!!!!

BLW???? It's not on the list - help