BLW - It's just SO messy!

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DD is 26 weeks and has so far had some steamed carrot sticks and (just now) some broccoli.

She coughed and gagged if she got any in her mouth and the playing with it resulted in such a god awful mess Im now wondering why i thought spoonfeeding weaning was ever a mess or hassle!

Does it improve? Quickly?

Yes it does improve, but not quickly. DD2 has been BLw from 20 weeks and now at 9.5mths it not as messy, but still very messy .

Um....it does improve, but not quickly, I'm afraid!

Get an old shower curtain to place under high chair.

Strip child naked.

Breathe deeply.

That's what baths are for

lol broccoli is a Freaking Nightmare to begin with, because they largely break it apart and smear it around. all those teensy-weensy little florally things... impossible to get hold of with a cloth.

i used to put the child in the bath and the highchair (ikea antilop) in the shower when she had broccoli. and then one day, not that far in, she just got it and started eating it.

yes it can be messy but it beats the stink of pureed baby food! (especially that stuff you get in the jars)

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i think that tbh BLW is probably not for people who can't stick mess. although i would suggest that they will gradually become inured to it while spoonfeeding and then the mess is the same at the finger food stage, albeit later on. but by then they can hack it...

I was just going to say what Aitch did -

we did blw(ish) at 6m. Ds now 14m, feeding himself almost entirely, and the mess is... spectacular.

for me, the mess is completely obliterated by sheer brain-busting joy of watching him shovel fistfuls of dinner into his face. [moony pfb expression]

lol, yes, when i saw what knickers said about pasta sauce i went all dreamy about an orange faced six month old dd with just blue eyes and white teeth visible.

our mess seems to be getting worse (you may not want to hear this!). D3 is 16m and manages his spoon now but when he's finished, he's started flinging his plate/bowl/cup across the room like a frisbee.

Last week it was tomato and lentil soup all down the dining room curtains.....

ds has no interest in a spoon - too slow, not enough volume! - but suppose I should be thankful when finished he just drops (instead of flings) everything overboard!

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Well, you could follow my example and get vinyl flooring and some dogs

DS is 11 months and is in an obsessive pincer-grip phase just now. If it's small enough to daintily pinch, examine then munch he's happy. Any bigger and it's only good for lobbing (that includes bowls, spoons, bibs ... )

I just use loads of long-sleeve t-shirts (had long-sleeve bibs for a while but TBH it's as easy just to peel the t-shirt layer off each time). He has breakfast before getting dressed. He has lots of baths. We have a zillion gorgeous pictures of him clarted in porridge/fish pie/pasta sauce/yoghurt/cheese, right down to encrusted eyelashes. I think you warm to the mess in time.

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ha HAH! knickers, didn't know you were pg agian, congrats!

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