BLW questions

Yuk, lol!
Foods that are ment to be eaten with a spoon (porridge, yougurt etc) can still be giving to blw babies, either by handing them a loaded spoon, or by giving them the spoon and bowl to go for it themselves.
I cant imagine this would work til they are closer to a yr old tho.
Anyone recommend a good baby spoon? We only have the very flat looking wattiees ones, and Im guessing the food will just fall off! Aidens enjoying chewing on the one we have, but I want to get a better, deeper baby spoon and have him get used to that!

Nah, Kellz we gave Jude a spoon with food on it right from the get go and he worked it out! Or a fork with food on it :) He's always been able to get the spoon to his mouth and in.

I guess I've been lucky though - Jude has always been really really into his food. He figures things out very quickly. I love other people watching him eat because they always have a positive comment about it! Haha - I'm vain like that. As if it had anything to do with me - he just turned out like that!

I do smile at those that say they do things "the old fashioned way". There are lots of old fashioned ways! I usually assume they mean the old fashioned way according to what their mothers did? Otherwise they could be feeding gruel only (water and grains - much much runnier than purees) up until a year old. Or they could be chewing food to mix with their own saliva to then give to their baby. They could be waiting until 8 months to introduce solids or introducing them at 4-6 weeks.......... Or they could be introducing solids by offering their babies food in finger form - believe it or not this is an "old fashioned way" too!

We do they best with the information we have at the time - we have different information available to us now than our mothers and grandmothers did when they decided on their "old fashioned" methods.

P.S. I think that it not just related to the introduction of solids but pretty much EVERYTHING in life. I *like* change and progress - I feel it's usually for the better.

Sorry about the bit of a tangent there

Kellz Lewies had a goa couple of times just with a normal teaspoon he even ''nearly'' gets it in lol I just put some stewed pear on it and hand it over

totally agree on the tuppaware spoons, favs in this house

We didnt even know we were doing 'blw' wasnt till i read on the net, and was like OH thats what we are doing.

Thanks for the spoon help! We dont have a baby factory here, but I have been eying up the Tupperware baby set so might have to get that

I didn't mean that those of you doing BLW necessarily follow rules! My comment was supposed to be more directed at those asking questions about BLW in this thread... to share my experience that you don't have to follow something exactly, you can adapt to what works for you and your baby, as it sounds like most of us are doing

And the rules I was talking about were following 'by the book' so to speak ie that if you are doing 'BLW' you shouldn't feed your baby mashes or purees etc and that you need to let your baby choose what to eat every meal.

I agree totally Bizzy there are alot of rules about purees too... when and what and how much you should feed your baby, its enough to give any new mum a complex. The other day my neighbor found out I was giving DD mashed egg yolk and said "but the chart says your not allowed to start that until x months"!! Its a guideline, not a rule book!

So I will second that rules schmules! hehe

Oh and I quite like the little baby spoons that come with the tommee tippee travel bowls, they are a good size for DD to hold, nice and soft and have a decent size 'scoop'

Edited by nuts_nats

I didn't even know there was a stages thing...puree/lumps etc...must be a nz plunket thing.

TaliP wrote: I didn't even know there was a stages thing...puree/lumps etc...must be a nz plunket thing.

you are kidding arent you?

Not where I live they don't. Haven't been given any guidelines on what to feed so just going with what feels right to me. There are intolerances in the family so we are just doing one thing at a time.

Yeah, no mummys support group either hence why this site is so good along with my lovely Dec09 ladies.