BLW is not possible during the credit crunch

[believer07]

Having had a go at BLW I am not going to continue as basically I can not afford to give my child organic food every day that it throws all over the floor and gets very little in its mouth, and is still screaming hungry at the end of the BLW session.

It seems to me like BLW is some new thing to keep western mothers occupied, because if you were living in Zimbabwe you would not be letting your six month old waste copious amounts of food.

The aim of eating is to eat the blardy food not paint the house with it.

I am back to putting in baby's mouth with a spoon, sod BKW and the rest of the rubbish them come out with.

Oh now I see you can eat penuts in preg because now to many kids have nut allergys because there mothers where told to avoid them rather than introduce them over a long time.

Are there others who find the old fashioned way easier and more economical

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I BLW - not organic though, so shoot me. As for decorating the house - DD did that more if we attmepted to get a spoon near her.

See, I don't see BLW as the next holy-cow or whatever. Each to their own, obviously.

But what is obvious to me, in following it with my DD for the past couple of weeks, is that she eats when she wants to, and doesn't when she doesn't. Because she controls how much goes in. And you can really see her focussing on something if she wants to eat it, and dropping it when she doesn't. If I was spoonfeeding her, I'd worry about overriding that natural instinct. And my DD is a hungry girl - over 9kg at 27/28 weeks.

you mean about the second banana? i don't understand. i wasn't being sarcastic. i'd have given dd milk, i already told you that i didn't feed ehr when she was hungry as such.

It's my experience that BLW is far cheaper then puree feeding, as my dd2 just ate bits of whatever we were eating therefore no need to make puree and no need to buy jars of puree.

Ok its fine to give them what you are eating, but when you are introducing foods one at a time to test for allery responses it can be wasteful.

I am sure my baby did not want salad and wild mushroom soup for its dinner today.

My dd2 would just spit puree out, and that would be incredibly wasteful. At least with BLW she actually ate something, and if she didn't eat a whole banana, I would simply finish it.

i see, so they haven't changed the advice on peanuts yet. they've been looking into it for a while, i'm sure it'll change in time. it's never made much sense when you look at the peanut allergy rates in Japan, imo. nothign to do with BLW, of course, which is neither a holy cow nor a govt recommendation. quite the opposite, in fact, people are always taking pot shots at it for some reason in a way that no-one comes on here spouting about purees (cos who could possible care?)

Sounds good, beliver07! Can I come round? I promise not to waste any!

Carrot and cumcumber and re/green pepper sticks from a salad are good finger foods, they can hold them and chew on them. And so is sweetcorn - picking up the little corns is great for their co-ordination.

i didn't test for allergy responses, we're not from an allergicky family and dd was over 6 mos. never found it that wasteful, though, to give her some cucumber, cheese and bread when i was having something that she'd find tricky. actually, another thing we did a lot was pot up leftovers and stick them in the freezer for her so that if we were having something different she'd have something there.

I also never tested for allergies.

lol the ONE problem with BLW is that we all become lardy barstards finishing our children's food if they don't eat it. my friend said that was one of the reasons she did purees, cos she was on a diet and they weren't tempting to her.

actually BLW insured I ate healthier - I don't like eating bananas normally but I will finish one off to stop it going to waste.

I'm a bit concerned with the waste. DS has just started BLW in the past couple of weeks and he hardly eats anything.

He has tiny bites, then mashes the food up (pretty thoroughly so no one else would really fancy it) then it goes on the floor.

My fruit/veg/bread etc spending has gone up and he's not actually eating it. I suppose I will have to get used to spending more on food anyway.

But mashing stuff would be wasteful too atm because he won't eat from a spoon...

dd's never been a big one for soups, as it happens, but i know that most kids just suck it off bread. although not my dd, oh no. looks at soup as if you've just puked in her bowl.

belgian food is great

If I works for peeps thats great, but I think that once again you get the establishment trying to force you into a certain course of action.

My health visitor rang me to tell me that she would be contacting me when my child was 6 months to tell me how to feed it. She knows that I have other children, whilst she herself has none at all.

I just don't like the pressure to conform to what the gov says you have got to do all the time. We are all skint at the moment and the advice is to 'keep spending', how can we trust people that get it so wrong and change their advice all the time.

I suppose really I am venting for feeling underpressure to do something against my better insincts, so i suppose I will do it my way and not theirs.

I will save the money and give it to the poor.

But BLW is not govt advice believer.

mmmmm. chocolate. beer. waffles. chips & mayo. more beer.

frites & mayo

Not aware of a dicktat that blw food needs to be organic.... I interpreted blw as give the child what you are eating. Why make it hard for yourself sourcing special stuff? TBH whatever way you feed your child, you feel pissed off when it ends up not being eaten. In the bowl or on the floor its messy, wastful, and easy to perceive as a comment on your culinary skills.

hopefully he'll get the gist sooner rather than later, doggie. i wonder if it looks more wasteful (cos i can't deny that it does) because it's proper bits of food, whereas running a puree down the sink wouldn't appear quite so brutally food-like? or maybe it just is more wasteful with some kids (don't really think it was with dd) and that's just something you have to decide whether you can live with or not? no-one's twisting anyone's arms, so far as i can see.

Don't you think it's good to have a choice though Believer?

If puree feeding suits you and your baby, that's great, do it that way. But if you have a baby like mine who refused all spoon feeding, then BLW was a life-saver - incidentally I never know it was called BLW when I weaned her.