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Back in the dim and distant past, when I started to wean my first daughter, I started a blog. It grew so quickly that it kept getting shut down because we were exceeding my bandwidth allowance for the month.
Anyway, in a desperate effort to keep things ‘sortable’, I posted in various categories rather than just as one long splurge, so my experiences with breastfeeding had somewhere to go, my daughter’s experiences with specific finger foods somewhere else, etc. You can see the list down the right hand side, in orange.
If you are interested in any of the topics, please click and have a wander through, but if it’s something more specific you are looking for, even if it’s just my thoughts on the best way to remove banana stains from clothing*, do use the search box. Remember to look at the comments as well, they were put there before we opened the forum up, so they are a wealth of information from other BLWing parents.
*this is a bit of a trick… I personally think the only way to get rid of the stains is to throw the garment in the bin, but I believe others have had some success with sunlight. See? It pays to read the comments if you are looking for a specific issue.
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Hi Im very impressed with what I’ve read and seen on here, I’m a first time mom and a very panicky one! My little girl is five months now and I’m struggling with weaning so I’m going to give this a try in four weeks time, as I worry if she eating enough or having enough milk, hope I find this fun and Emilee will to! The website is gr8 x
cheers!
Im starting today so looking forward to the mess xxxx should be fun my friends lo looks like she loves it and eats all sorts xxx
My 7 month old has been on purées and cereals for almost 3 months now. I’ve been trying to get her to eat finger foods and she rather uninterested.
Would trying BLW ideas work at this point or is she so into the purées it’s not going to work well? She’s just starting to take to eating those Puffs they sell. But they really taste bad! A
Any suggestions ?
those puffs smell bad, don’t they? the carroty ones… blerk. if she’s not interested in finger foods and you’re meeting her needs with purees etc, then of course she’ll be fine from a nutritional point of view. Definitely try some steamed carrot, all those sort of early BLW ideas to encourage her to try them, but i always found the best way to get a child interested in foot was to sit near them (with them untethered) and eat…
if i try to give my son some banana how should i cut it? in long pieces or jst the normal round pieces?
as it happens, mine always gagged like crazy on banana, but some kids love it. try keeping it in the skin so they can grip it, or some people roll it in cereal, or some cut it in half and split the nana in three up the middle. something so simple as a banana… it really shouldn’t be this complicated…
Hi, i am from Indonesia where this BLW is not very common thing.. :)
so, my 7,5m girl refused to eat purees since a month ago. I was frustrated thinking that she will lack of nutritients.. So i did some searchings n found this site..
Today i started to give her an egg, she refused :)
then i gave her a tofu, she ate 2bites than throw it away.
Then i gave her a banana (when her sister had 1 too), she ate 4 bites, than flied it away :)
what i wanna ask u is that: how long will it take for babies to get mastered at BLW??
I need a hope actually :D
*sorry for miss-spelling/grammar ;)
Was she eating well before a month ago? If so, it might just be that she’s teething, you know. Loads of babies go off their food when their gums are sore, the poor wee things. If I was you, i wouldn’t put too much pressure on you both to ‘master’ BLW, why not just keep going with the purees (if that’s what she’s used to and if she enjoys them usually) but make sure that there’s finger food around as well, nicely chilled from the fridge in case her gums are painful. But remember, for a first try, six bites sounds fine, really, it can only get better.
My child is 7 months old, I started like a month and a half ago to give him celery in finger shape because I read that it helps with teething. He once choked and had to shake him to pass the piece of celery, which appeared in his diaper few days later LOL. After that I started with steam squash and carrots but because of this experience I was afraid that him can shock again and with him strapped in his chair I wouldnt be able to shake him, so every time he got a piece of food in his mouth I took it out. Yesterday I found this website and gave me courage to try it again. I gave him apple and he loved it, he was sit on my lap so I let him enjoy it but he shocked again. He has been breastfed all the time. Could this mean that he is not ready to BLW yet? Am I doing something wrong?
if you have a look at our entry on apple i’d definitely say not to give it unless it’s cooked and soft, it’s really a pretty chokey fruit, because it breaks off and is so hard. Celery’s usually okay, because the fibres keep it together and the babies just mash away at it and occasionally break bits off. It was a good idea to sit him on your lap, i think, that instinct was totally correct while your confidence has been shaken, but it sounds like it was just bad luck that the one fruit you chose was the biggest no-no. Poor you, what a shame. Regarding the celery, though, it’s odd that when you shook him he actually swallowed it, if he was choking and turned upside down, I’d have thought he’d cough it out, so it may be that it was further down than you thought and on it’s way to the right place? Hope so, anyway…
Definitely, he is swallowing. I will read more about BLW before continue. I started in the wrong way, because of my lack of knowledge. Thanks!
I have a question about Iron I have been doing BLW but how do i know hes getting enough Iron.
When I was doing BLW I automatically gave mine heaps of broccoli, pulses and they could do serious damage to a steak, so it was never something I worried about. Is there a particular reason you’re concerned?