Author Topic: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10  (Read 62609 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline katie80

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 220
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 11169
  • Location: USA
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #105 on: February 10, 2012, 19:17:06 pm »
Ali - How did you make your pancakes?  Claire used to love them, actually that's how she started using a fork, but I didn't feed them to her til 10-12 mo and I think maybe a lot of American recipes have a fair amount of sugar.



Offline *Ali*

  • Breast Feeding & Pregnancy/Childbirth
  • Forum Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 373
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 22302
  • Caught in the act!
  • Location: London uk
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #106 on: February 10, 2012, 19:57:38 pm »
I just use 2 eggs, 1pint milk, and about 300g self raising flour (or normal flour and  a teaspoon of baking powder). I also added a teaspoon each of vanilla essence and cinnamon to these ones. Colby has them dry but cadan and I had maple syrup on ours. Dh normally has them with lemon and sugar. I sometimes add pureed fruit or veg and less milk. Fizzy water instead of some of the milk can make them lighter.
I just cut them in longish strips for him.
Colby ate cheese omlette and mushrooms and strawberries today. Not sure much went down as always.
Cadan Dec 2009 and Colby Aug 2011


Offline katie80

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 220
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 11169
  • Location: USA
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #107 on: February 10, 2012, 20:24:04 pm »
Ok, not much different than what I normally do, just minus the sugar. :-[  Thanks, Ali.



Offline *Ali*

  • Breast Feeding & Pregnancy/Childbirth
  • Forum Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 373
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 22302
  • Caught in the act!
  • Location: London uk
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #108 on: February 11, 2012, 22:42:49 pm »
Colby has his first proper meal today of salmon steamed and roasted sweet potato. He wasn't too sure on the salmon.

Are you/did you all start doing one meal for a few weeks before you added a second and then a third? That is what I did with Cadan but since Colby hardly gets any food actually in him I am tending to give him little tastes at all three meals of the day. It is generally the same food(s) for all three meals. So today it was just sweet potato for breakfast and lunch and then same again with salmon for dinner.
Cadan Dec 2009 and Colby Aug 2011


Offline amayzie

  • Pinterest Ninja
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 250
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 12584
  • Location: Newcastle, Aust
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #109 on: February 11, 2012, 22:55:16 pm »
To start with i pretty much gave hamish a go at almost every meal- basically evety meal i could manage. I figured the same as you- he's not getting much, and the more practice he gets the better. Also at 6 months it's not VITAL that they have solids EVERY DAY- so i figured too that if i had a few days when i offerred at every meal, then i could have a day or so where i didn't- if we were out or something.

Now that hamish eats more (biggest understatement of the year) i only offer 2 meals- or i did from I guess around 7-8 months or so (more or less). I'm no offering lunch some days- mainly now funnily enough when e are out and about rather than at home! I give him a couple of little muffins as he MUST have something while i'm eating... I think soon- like even next week i'm going to try offerring lunch more consistently and think about dropping a feed after that (he's been a bit fussy on the late feeds)
Katy, Mummy to Hamish!


Offline Papaya

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 79
  • Posts: 3049
  • Location: Singapore
    • It's a dangerous thing, stepping out your front door...
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #110 on: February 12, 2012, 01:00:32 am »
I offered two meal from the start - breakfast and lunch. We still had the CN at six months, but when we dropped that around 7 -7.5 months I started offering dinner as well. The timings didn't work before that. Dinner was just a snack for a while though.

Anyone else seen this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16905371 ?

Some more research in support of BLW :)
*Nuala*










Offline amayzie

  • Pinterest Ninja
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 250
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 12584
  • Location: Newcastle, Aust
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #111 on: February 12, 2012, 01:11:31 am »
Cool! Love it! Had my friends over the other day and there is a little baby the same age as hamish- Still on all puree!! I found it funny how at the start i was nervous that he wasn't having as much- but no there's no problem at all- he eats surely as much as the other babies- and probably gets more variety!! Sooo happy with our decision!
Katy, Mummy to Hamish!


Offline *Ali*

  • Breast Feeding & Pregnancy/Childbirth
  • Forum Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 373
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 22302
  • Caught in the act!
  • Location: London uk
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #112 on: February 12, 2012, 07:23:01 am »
Make sense. Did you see Nuala that blw is the recommended way to wean here now?  At some of the play groups I go to Katy there are toddlers who are still eating all purees as their mums say they can't get them to eat anything else yet.
My nephew starts on blw but by 8 or 9mo was still hardly eating anything so my sister started on purees and he eats a lot more of those although still has lots of finger foods too. he was getting quite frustrated with the finger foods and not managing to eat what he wanted. so I guess blw doesn't work for everyone.
Cadan Dec 2009 and Colby Aug 2011


Offline amayzie

  • Pinterest Ninja
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 250
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 12584
  • Location: Newcastle, Aust
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #113 on: February 12, 2012, 10:21:48 am »
no- and possibly kids with hand skills that are either a bit behind their peers, or not up to where their mouth skills are up to- probably would find it too frustrating... not delayed as such, just that kids develop at different rates within the 'normal' band.. ANd the book says that it's not for kids who's physical/hand skills aren't up to it. (Is the nephew the one that we 'know'?)
Katy, Mummy to Hamish!


Offline *Ali*

  • Breast Feeding & Pregnancy/Childbirth
  • Forum Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 373
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 22302
  • Caught in the act!
  • Location: London uk
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #114 on: February 12, 2012, 21:00:07 pm »
Yeah. I'm not sure why he doesn't eat much finger food cos he can do it and does eat some things. He's just cut his first tooth so maybe that being through will help.

Colby ate torn roast duck with steamed carrot, broccoli and cauliflower tonight. :)
Cadan Dec 2009 and Colby Aug 2011


Offline amayzie

  • Pinterest Ninja
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 250
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 12584
  • Location: Newcastle, Aust
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #115 on: February 12, 2012, 21:04:10 pm »
YAY!
Katy, Mummy to Hamish!


Offline squeakersmum

  • Steph
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 49
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 3349
  • So grown up already!
  • Location: Southampton - England
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #116 on: February 12, 2012, 21:18:23 pm »
Just checking in. Abi is still not eating very much - despite BLW since a week shy of 6 months. I'm not stressing about it, we're just plodding along! She doesn't really take that much milk either (2 x 7oz bottles and usually 2 x 5oz bottles).

Still enjoys her beloved blueberries!


Offline amayzie

  • Pinterest Ninja
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 250
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 12584
  • Location: Newcastle, Aust
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #117 on: February 12, 2012, 21:27:24 pm »
ALso- some babies are just not big eaters i guess! As long as they are still growing!
Katy, Mummy to Hamish!


Offline *Ali*

  • Breast Feeding & Pregnancy/Childbirth
  • Forum Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 373
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 22302
  • Caught in the act!
  • Location: London uk
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #118 on: February 12, 2012, 21:54:13 pm »
Hi Steph. :)
Cadan Dec 2009 and Colby Aug 2011


Offline squeakersmum

  • Steph
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 49
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 3349
  • So grown up already!
  • Location: Southampton - England
Re: Baby Led Weaning Support Thread - Part 10
« Reply #119 on: February 12, 2012, 22:00:24 pm »
Ab is pretty titchy compared to her giant brother ::)

I, however, am a bit of an anomaly in my family - I'm big and tall. My mum, aunts, and grandparents are all much shorter than me, by 5 or 6 inches and all are slight (I just call that plain unfair!) so Abi could well be more like them.

Is feta cheese too salty for them at this age if it's cooked into say a muffin?