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Baby Led Weaning - The Mush Stops Here! The Mush Stops Here Baby Led Weaning, quite simply, means letting your child feed themselves from the very start of weaning The term was originally coined by Gill Rapley, a former health visitor and midwife According to the most recent research most babies reach for food at around six months, which is also the time that mothers are being encouraged to wean* by their Health Visitors, in
Photos - Baby Led Weaning Pumpkin Yet another BLW baby who hasn’t read the Rapley guidelines about using the broccoli stem as a handle… Wallace’s young ‘un enjoying his grub Minimoo, having finished the broccoli, turns to the bib A meal of carrot, butternut squash and banana Minimoo’s own recipe Widget and her first encounter with a tin of Quality St Tut
How does one broach the subject of BLW with a nursery, then? At the settling-in sessions the nursery nurse took all DD’s details, how much milk, what naps, etc etc… then the food questions came up I’d already flummoxed her by discussing expressed milk storage and Doidy cups and a few other things so I though ‘what the heck let’s do the BLW chat too
Getting Started - Baby Led Weaning Baby-led weaning is, it must be said, a somewhat cheesy term for just letting your infant self-feed You cut food up into manageable sticks and offer it, they eat It’s really pretty simple The key difference between BLW and traditional weaning, when you think about it, is in the order that children learn to eat With a puree, they learn to swallow first and then chew, which works fine
breastfeeding Archives - Baby Led Weaning With the BLW group the high rate is understandable as it is such a natural extension of breastfeeding With the spoon-fed group – we had a sample who were willing to come to the lab to be tested etc – so again probably not entirely representative at a population level
Spingle and Nomes family recipe for Potato Cakes - Baby Led Weaning “Great Nanna Peg’s Nanny Annie’s potato cakes This recipe is actually the Nome’s great granny’s, but her Nanna makes a mean version They are a lighter, fluffier and altogether more comforting version of tattie scones I grew up eating them with bacon as a lovely Friday night tea – thought that they might make usable fist food, and a good vehicle for other flavourings, and the Nome
carbs Archives - Baby Led Weaning With the BLW group the high rate is understandable as it is such a natural extension of breastfeeding With the spoon-fed group – we had a sample who were willing to come to the lab to be tested etc – so again probably not entirely representative at a population level
Lins sisters Lentil and Carrot Cakes - Baby Led Weaning Good to see that the aunties of BLW babies are on the case… “This is all the way from my sister in New Zealand – with a few UK BLW tweaks Red Lentil Carrot Cakes 1 2 onion, finely chopped 1 4 tsp mild curry powder 1 4 tsp ground cumin 2 tbs red lentils 3 4 cup chicken stock (but I generally use water or that reduced-salt stuff)
Lins sisters Lentil and Carrot Cakes - Baby Led Weaning Good to see that the aunties of BLW babies are on the case… “This is all the way from my sister in New Zealand – with a few UK BLW tweaks Red Lentil Carrot Cakes 1 2 onion, finely chopped 1 4 tsp mild curry powder 1 4 tsp ground cumin 2 tbs red lentils 3 4 cup chicken stock (but I generally use water or that reduced-salt stuff) 1 medium carrot, grated 150g kumura (NZ veggie) or sweet
The Blog - Baby Led Weaning The key thing is that in the BLW method, the parent just has to take a step back and let the child get on with it The baby learns to chew first, and to spit out, and THEN to swallow food