6 months BLW?

[Willow01]

Are you thinking of doing it? I did a mix of shop bought purée and BLW and my 2.5 year old is a really fussy eater. Do you think doing it that way had anything to do with it or is he just a naturally fussy eater?! I like the idea of BLW but worry at the same time lol. What's your thoughts?

 

[donnarobinson]

I did purée food with my first he's a terrible eater
My second baby I did blw and he's a fantastic eater a bit more fussy lately but he's two so think it's just a phase x

 

[Loozle]

You can't mix blw and puree, sounds like you might have done traditional weaning - puree and finger foods. Blw doesn't include puree unless it's food that would be that texture anyway, such as soup and baby still feeds it to themselves.

I don't personally think that the type of weaning process can create a fussy eater. My first was traditionally weaned - purees and finger foods and he's not a fussy eater. My 2nd was blw and he can be fussy but not majorly. My 3rd was also blw and she's not fussy either. The only difference I've noticed is that ds1 can't control his food intake as well as the younger 2 and as a result puts weight on easier. My younger 2 are much more in proportion. That's just my experience of it though.

 

[CaptainMummy]

I did BLW with all of mine.

All of them are crap eaters, so theory doesn't ring true with any of them.

 

[Willow01]

My plan is to start of with finger foods & purée and then when I'm feeling a bit more confident take the purée away and focus only on food. Thanks for your replies it is interesting to see others thoughts

 

[Button#]

We did BLW with DS and he's a fussy eater but he has other issues that contribute. We started BLW with DD but she got the rage as she wanted to eat food now now now and not learn to chew etc first so we moved to traditional weaning, purees and finger foods and cutting out purees when she got the hang of it.

I preferred BLW as it meant DS just got on with it and I could eat mine. Spoon feeding was as annoying as I thought it would be, but I had to follow DDs lead.

 

[Amalee]

I did BLW with my son because I was lazy and it was easier to peel a banana than to peel a banana, mash it, spoon feed it, and then wash dishes.

But seriously, I really liked BLW and plan on doing it again. My son's a great eater, but I think that's because he's a little chubster who eats everything, not because of the weaning process we used.

 

[MindUtopia]

Do it. I think it's wonderful and we had nothing but a positive experience. I think there is a lot more that goes into creating a fussy eater than just how you start them out, including your own attitude to food and stress at mealtimes and the types and variety of food you offer. But I think certainly starting your LO out on normal food that is the sort of food you already eat in your family can only help when it comes to creating an adventurous attitude to food and won't hurt. We've certainly gone through spells of refusing food when she was teething or poorly or when life just got busy and stressful and we couldn't always plan family meals together, but generally I'd say my daughter is a really good eater. She's 3 now and will eat just about everything (only thing she consistently refuses is mash oddly enough!). She eats all sorts of weird things that even adults don't like, like pate, and mussels, and just about every veg. Broccoli is one of her favourite foods and she can eat 5 florets of broccoli in one sitting if I let her. Yesterday, we were out to lunch and she ate an entire plate of fried whitebait because she "wanted to eat their faces off" (LOL!). I think some of it is just down to personality and what kinds of foods you offer normally in your house anyway (we do eat lots of weird stuff), but I really think a lot of it is because we just always fed her that sort of stuff and we never messed around with purees (which I think taste gross). Obviously, it's much more complex than just how you do weaning, but definitely I think BLW only did good things for her.

 

[mum22ttc#3]

I've done two traditional and two blw. All four are great eaters but I would say the youngest two (blw) are much better at trying things and controlling their own intake. As they've also been pretty much left to get on with it their cutlery skills were much better earlier on too.
As long as all is well at 6 months with this baby then I will definitely be doing blw again, I found it a much more enjoyable experience all round, for both us and babies

 

[Soph1986]

I try to stick to BLW and offer finger foods, but usually top up every meal and spoon feed. Baby loves playing with the food and would definitely recommend

 

[justplay91]

I did traditional weaning with my son. He isn't terribly picky at all, but my complaint would be that he is almost 20 months and still doesn't really like to use cutlery at all. That said, he is stubborn in all areas and I think he might have rejected forks and spoons regardless.

I can't decide whether I want to do BLW with my daughter or whether I want to take the traditional route again. I might do some more research on BLW. I remember last time being terrified of choking with BLW. Add far as when to start, I think it will be 7 or 8 months with my daughter. My son was MORE than ready at 5 months, but I don't see my girl being ready for quite awhile.