How old do you think this baby is ?

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I was looking for videos of BLW but this one really upset me she looks so tiny .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AptVBBnoDto&NR=1

Your DD does look like she's loving her food in those pics though Galena - she has a gorgeous smile! Mad that she eats laying down! Ds can drink sitting upright or laying completely flat, but has always had to be sitting up for any solid food.

I wouldn't say she does Galena - neithewr of the Youtube babies looked up to holding a spoon...

I loved your pics galena but you won't get any comments about them on here because your here to defend yourself

My ds can't hold a spoon now and he's 14 months old.

mine was the same worzel - finally got his spoon-mouth coordination at about 20mo!!

"Baby girl you need to swallow that stuff" dad (?) says near the end of the first one. It's called tongue thrust
Second one is awful, that baby is being force fed

Just to take away the horror, here are a couple of a baby enjoying himself (please ignore the awful PFB commentary ;-) )

salmon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=31cLMn-28w8&feature=channel

galena- your baby looks to be sitting up, holding a spoon, being presented with solid food to eat herself.

the babies on youtube look about ds's age (11/12wks) they aren't sitting up, they are being fed between screams.

Galena just glanced at your pics - your dd is lovely and looks a lot more advanced! After all she's holding a spoon - no way those babies could and i doubt 5mo dd could feed hreself with one.
Although it does look in the 1st pic as though you are weaning her on a sugar cube, so consider yourself judged

I think you can also tell by the way the eyes are focussed - Galena's dd is looking at the camera
(you're going to tell me she was 6 weeks, aren't you?)

Who posted the comments! It's awful to see a baby like that isn't it

Thanks for the comments...

Ah yes, she's holding a spoon, but the second picture is of her far more recently - 3 months after we started weaning. And while she can get the spoon to her mouth I have to spoon feed her as she can't actually get food off the spoon if she holds it herself.

In the first photo she was 5.5 mo and couldn't get spoon to mouth (And I'd like to point out it was baby rice, not a sugar cube!). The second pic was Christmas day when she was 8mo and I ended up spoon feeding her, but she was far more... hands on!

However, I have NEVER forced food into her when she is screaming, and I agree the videos are crass and awful, I was just playing devil's advocate!

Should be -

Who posted the comments!

It's awful to see a baby like that isn't it.

I'm not laughing at the babies but the comments on the second link that were 15 minutes old!

Why would you force food into your crying, distressed child's mouth, whilst filming it and putting it on youtube?

oh dear the comments have been deleted! the mother is cross

Apparently so daddy can see them! Quite why he would want to see his little baby crying and being force fed I am not sure!