Baby-led Weaning Support Thread Part 3

[Bryony]

Hi Pauline, thanks for the info!  That sounds good.  I am already giving Katie her milk out of a sippy mid morning and mid afternoon, so that should sort that one out. Well, when I can be bothered to express that is!  One of our issues is fitting it all around naps - Katie sleeps 11-12:30 and 4-4:45 at the moment so I would have to squeeze things around a bit. Anyway I think I will keep plodding on - we have problems here at the moment with childcare (long story, but I go back to work next week, and started Katie in nursery last week, but they have changed things around so that the babies have to sleep in the same room as the others babies are playing, plus there are SO many people for Katie to get to know, and she hated it...) so I am frantically trying to find some alternative child care right now - so I think I will keep her routine the same until we have settled somewhere...  oh this being a parent lark is so difficult!

Bryony

[elliesmama]

So I just gave Ellie a potato cake and a stick of boiled sweet potato.  Most of it the dog ate!  But I thought it was really fun and way less pressure for her.  Is it okay that she barely ate any of it?  Another question...do I still have  to give oat cereal?

[grahamsmama]

Pauline- I guess it kind of depends on how much she eats at breakfast whether she can last that long.  If she takes a good breakfast and you let her have water whenever she wants it, I think it would work out well.  

Laurie- You don't have to give oat cereal, but you can if you want.  I give Meghan Cheerios.  I'm glad you had a good time with feeding her!  Most of the babies started out not eating much, but it definitely picks up as they get bigger.

[Lippy Chick]

Laurie,

Don't worry about the amounts, some days they eat loads and some days barely anything.  You don't have to give any purees at all, we didn't do purees and she's been fine.  Some others have done a mixture of purees and finger foods, but it isn't strictly BLW and you don't need to. 

Bryony, really sorry to hear that you're having child care issues, hope you can get it sorted very quickly.

Pauline

[lovedtodeath]

  Also that Alice's morning sleep may become a thing of the past soon too.  She is kind of pushing it later and later by not going down and not really staying asleep either.  So wondering if it's time to wean her off that too, however, not an issue for here.

What do people think about this?

Pauline

J is doing the same thing! Give me a link in PM if you post it elsewhere. He was having three naps and now he seems to want one really big one instead.

[Cathy_D]

There's some really, really helpful stuff about the 2-1 nap switch in the Naps forum (under the FAQs, I think). And a support thread called 'anyone want to chat about the 2-1 nap switch' which might be of interest.

Pauline - Just wondering how many different places you and I are going to end up having conversations in ... Join the nap thread and make it 4!!

[Lippy Chick]

I can think of this one and P.T., I can't think of another one, excluding naps.  I do sometimes feel though, that I follow you around the board. 

Alice was taking three, then went down to two around 7 months and now seems to be elongating her A time so that we can't fit in a long sleep in the afternoon.  So we'll see.

Pauline

[lovedtodeath]

Laurie I found my links on gagging and choking. The first one gives a good comparison.

http://www.babybanana.biz/page29.htm

http://babyledweaning.blogware.com/blog/TheGaggingThing

Other than that I feel it is good to start off with really soft things, like canned pears, boiled to death veggies and potato pancakes.

[beccarman]

oh my word!!! so much to catch up on here!!
we've been away lots over the last two weeks so haven't had chance to catch up on here. lucy is doing really well with the whole blw weaning thing, the only problem is that shes doesn't sit unaided yet so we sit her on our knee and hold the food between us - as in her and whichever parent is holding her! this works really well and she is very keen for food, so far she has had, banana, rice cake, toast, carrot, brocolli, peas, melon, avacado, pear, apple, pasta, dried apricot and a raisin! am assuming these are all ok for her age?
is the whole assisted sitting and eating ok? its only assisted in so much as she holds one side and we hold the other and that shes uses our bodies for balance.
also been wondering about the fact that i'm offering her food 2 or 3 times a day - is that ok? because shes around at meal times so generally moans so we give her something we're eating - or if not suitable a banana! i'm still bfing her loads so shes getting enough milk, i can remember with dd1 staying at one meal a day for ages before going to 2 then 3 but it seems that we're at 2 or 3 eatings per day already!
been shopping today and got lots of yummy food to try over the next few days  
keep going guys you are so fab and inspiring
 

[VickyB20]

Hi beccarman!  What you're doing sounds fab.  I don't think the number of meals in a day matters in the slightest.  The point about BLW is that the baby leads!  So if she wants to have a taste of different foods several times a day then I see no reason at all why she shouldn't do just that!  It doesn't sound like she's at the stage where she's eating so much that she's drinking less milk, and as far as I know, I think that's the only worry with going 'too fast' with the puree route.

Sounds like you're doing really great!

Vicky
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(P.S. Bryony - hope you sort those issues soon.  Let us know what happens.  It's so stressful when childcare doesn't work out easily.)

[Freya'sMum]

A quick one on the naps... Eryn dropped to one long nap in the morning at 11 months because her afternoon nap meant she didn't want to go to bed at bedtime - the 'sleep' folk said total sleep over a 24 hour period was more important than the EASY routine if it wasn't working!

You are all doing marvellously with the self-feeding btw - am so proud of your pioneering los !

Ax

[elliesmama]

Lyndsy--I tried Baby Mumums or whatever they're called today and Ellie scarfed down a whole one as we wandered around Wal-Mart!  Thanks for the great suggestion. 

Lovedtodeath--great links!  thanks so much. i should forward those to my mother! 

beccarmen--You're just starting BLW, too, right?  My lo wasn't responding well to purees, so I decided to try it.  Today is our first day.  I really like it--seems much more fun and empowering for our los.  Don't you think?  by the way, mine doesn't like the high chair much, so she's eaten a couple times with her on my lap...can't see that much wrong with it.

[grahamsmama]

I don't think where they sit to eat matters much, as long as you are following their lead as to what/how much they want to eat. 

[MJMom]

hmmm...

Plain spinach - Yuck says Marina
Spinach sauteed in Garlic - Yummy give me more says marina.



Welcome to all the new folk to the thread!  I dont' have a lot to add than what ahs already been said!

Any one have any good travel "finger food"  Stuff that can make up a meal but won't be infintisimliy messy?  (Like those darned teething cookies! UGH!  if I get another outfit/sweater/jeans messy this week from cookie fingers!!!)

[Bryony]

Alissa - if we need to lunch on the go we usually do strips of ham, chunks of cheese and some bread and butter, followed by fruit.  I have some teeny weeny tupperware containers that I put them in so that they are all packed nicely