Baby Led Weaning

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Archive for July, 2011

Let me first of all say ‘Hello!’ to our one visitor from Kazakhastan… guess who has been on Google Analytics?

Thursday, July 21st, 2011


Gosh, well, having finally looked at Google Analytics I would like to announce;

a. We have visitors to this site from pretty much every country on the face of the earth, apart from Greenland. (What’s that about, Greenlanders, huh? )

b. Sergey Brin and Larry Page know more about me and what I get up to than my own mother. Previously I had thought this role was held by my internet foster parents Mark Zuckenberg and Justine Roberts (Facebook and Mumsnet respectively).

So what I am going to say now is… if anyone would like to translate the home page, or even ‘getting started’ into a myriad of languages, that would be HILARIOUS and I would be so grateful. Obviously you wouldn’t have to take responsibility for the entire myriad, just one each would be great. I’ll leave that with you, don’t panic, I’m not asking you to join a committee or anything, just if you happen to be fluent in Kazakh I know there’s one person out there who would be delighted…

Oh, and look here we have joined the Mumsnet Bloggers Network, which means I will hopefully get off my ass* to get my blogroll** started up.

If any of you have recommendations, I’ll stick them up. Reckon I’ll do a BLW-type one but also a Just Generally Smart People one too.

And talking of Papa Zuckenberg et al, I should tell you that our FB is https://www.facebook.com/babyledweaning, our Twitter account is @blwdotcom and I will be Right Back Atcha with a Google+ doohickey once I work out what the hell is going on there…

* Please note the Americanism now that I have gone international.
** Please also note the pathetic British snigger because blogroll sounds like bog roll.

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Choking – why we need to stop uselessly fretting about it and instead Learn What To Do If It Happens.

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Have a look at this article from the Daily Mail, it perfectly (and sadly) sums up what we BLWers bang on about constantly. Cut Stuff Up.

We’ve all been through what the poor, poor mother of 18-month-old Toby has, that moment when you are at someone else’s house and they don’t cut up grapes and you have that moment of preciousness thinking ‘oh I really don’t want my kid eating those but am I prepared to make myself look like a prat by going and getting a knife..?’ well, give into it. That’s parental instinct, that’s wot that is.

As for the blueberries… lord I hadn’t even thought about them. Certainly with my two girls I am at pains to get them to cut round things in half with their teeth before they put them into their mouths, but I have never considered blueberries actively dangerous. Maybe our grandmothers knew what they were doing, encouraging us to take dainty mouthfuls? I guess the instinct that I had to squish anything that looked a little too robust (blueberries and clementines in particular if I recall correctly) served me well.

Thankfully (given that it is in the Mail) the main thrust of the article I agree with wholeheartedly – we should all do an infant resus course, something this site has been saying For Ever. What possible harm can it do?

I’ve said it before but the only time I’ve had to pick a kid up, turn them upside down and wallop their back hard was some child in the park, no relation of mine and many, many years beyond the weaning stage. (Incidentally, the descriptions of what a choke looks like in that piece seem to me to be excellent, from what I observed that day. It’s hard to put that look of silent, exponential panic into words). I only thank God I was there that day, for had I not been, that little boy’s story might have been infinitely worse than little Toby’s.

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