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fantastisk!!!! det er takket være BLW vi får i imre også litt mat!!
aislin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-led_weaning
og fra http://babyledweaning.blogware.com/
...not that we are the experts...
That honour belongs to a health visitor and researcher called Gill Rapley, who wrote a paper in 2003 which explored the age at which children can and should be weaned onto solid food.
The research found that six months was the optimum age, which is the time that mothers are now being told to wean by Health Visitors.
However, the distinct advantage of weaning at six months is that by that time our children are developmentally capable of feeding themselves - which means no more mush!
You just hand them the food in a suitably-sized piece and if they like it they eat it and if they don't they won't. (But they do, really they do... check out the six-month-old with the banana.)
That's the essence of Baby Led Weaning. No purees, no ice cube trays, no moulis, no food processor, no potato masher, no baby rice, no mixing everything with expressed breast milk or formula, no weird combinations of fruits and vegetables, no preparing everything weeks in advance... just you and your child, eating food that you enjoy with you and your family.
Anyway, as I said before, we are not experts in this area. What we are, however, is a pair of first-time mums feeling our way through the minefield that is encouraging our babies to have a healthy lifelong relationship with food. Our children (little darlings both) will be reporting from the front line over the next few months as we experiment with this Baby Led Weaning. (Although we'll be doing the bulk of the typing.)
My baby is nearly seven months old and already she has enjoyed fistfuls of broccoli, banana, green beans, red pepper, rice cakes and hummus, toast and cream cheese, mature cheddar, peaches, apricots, avocado, cucumber, pear, pasta with anchovies, chilli and lemon (her father...), pork fillet, roast chicken, roast potatoes, Jersey Royals, sweet potatoes, asparagus, melon and butternut squash. All of which she grabbed in her own little fist and ADORED feeding herself while her parents ate their own meals. I can't even begin to tell you how pleasant it is to eat in a restaurant with your Baby Led Weaning child chomping on a piece of bread and butter or a chunk of cucumber from your salad beside you.
Because it is a fairly new phenomenon we will hopefully be collating some information on Baby Led Weaning for you - personally I found it a nightmare trying to get hold of information on the subject, which is why I wanted to start this blog - but the truth is that the best way to start is to jump in. So join us, read how we are getting on and please, please comment on what we are doing. I'm probably going to be writing the bulk of the blog, principally because I suffer most from Runningoffatthemouth Disease. Morv is largely immune, but will be offering her salient and sensible opinions on the comments threads, as well as the odd (sometimes very odd) recipe.
If you have any questions we will do our best to answer them, but remember, we are just getting started here. If you have any better ideas or advice to pass on then please tell us.
Also, I know that I use a couple of websites and message groups already and you may have heard of the blog through them but I would really appreciate it if you could address any questions or comments only through this site as I really don't want anyone getting cross with me. I'm pretty sure you are required to register but I promise that we will take your privacy very seriously.
Good luck to anyone starting out with the Baby Led Weaning - so far it's been great fun for us and I hope it will be for you too.
Kindest regards,
Aitch and Babybear, and Morv and Boomer.
aislin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-led_weaning
og fra http://babyledweaning.blogware.com/
...not that we are the experts...
That honour belongs to a health visitor and researcher called Gill Rapley, who wrote a paper in 2003 which explored the age at which children can and should be weaned onto solid food.
The research found that six months was the optimum age, which is the time that mothers are now being told to wean by Health Visitors.
However, the distinct advantage of weaning at six months is that by that time our children are developmentally capable of feeding themselves - which means no more mush!
You just hand them the food in a suitably-sized piece and if they like it they eat it and if they don't they won't. (But they do, really they do... check out the six-month-old with the banana.)
That's the essence of Baby Led Weaning. No purees, no ice cube trays, no moulis, no food processor, no potato masher, no baby rice, no mixing everything with expressed breast milk or formula, no weird combinations of fruits and vegetables, no preparing everything weeks in advance... just you and your child, eating food that you enjoy with you and your family.
Anyway, as I said before, we are not experts in this area. What we are, however, is a pair of first-time mums feeling our way through the minefield that is encouraging our babies to have a healthy lifelong relationship with food. Our children (little darlings both) will be reporting from the front line over the next few months as we experiment with this Baby Led Weaning. (Although we'll be doing the bulk of the typing.)
My baby is nearly seven months old and already she has enjoyed fistfuls of broccoli, banana, green beans, red pepper, rice cakes and hummus, toast and cream cheese, mature cheddar, peaches, apricots, avocado, cucumber, pear, pasta with anchovies, chilli and lemon (her father...), pork fillet, roast chicken, roast potatoes, Jersey Royals, sweet potatoes, asparagus, melon and butternut squash. All of which she grabbed in her own little fist and ADORED feeding herself while her parents ate their own meals. I can't even begin to tell you how pleasant it is to eat in a restaurant with your Baby Led Weaning child chomping on a piece of bread and butter or a chunk of cucumber from your salad beside you.
Because it is a fairly new phenomenon we will hopefully be collating some information on Baby Led Weaning for you - personally I found it a nightmare trying to get hold of information on the subject, which is why I wanted to start this blog - but the truth is that the best way to start is to jump in. So join us, read how we are getting on and please, please comment on what we are doing. I'm probably going to be writing the bulk of the blog, principally because I suffer most from Runningoffatthemouth Disease. Morv is largely immune, but will be offering her salient and sensible opinions on the comments threads, as well as the odd (sometimes very odd) recipe.
If you have any questions we will do our best to answer them, but remember, we are just getting started here. If you have any better ideas or advice to pass on then please tell us.
Also, I know that I use a couple of websites and message groups already and you may have heard of the blog through them but I would really appreciate it if you could address any questions or comments only through this site as I really don't want anyone getting cross with me. I'm pretty sure you are required to register but I promise that we will take your privacy very seriously.
Good luck to anyone starting out with the Baby Led Weaning - so far it's been great fun for us and I hope it will be for you too.
Kindest regards,
Aitch and Babybear, and Morv and Boomer.