Baby led weaning question

[tinkerham]

Daycare is suggesting we send food for him to have after his bottle. We just started trying anything besides breastmilk and formula 2 days ago. I'm not sure I clearly communicated the whole BLW thing. I was sort of surprised (they just told me he would be moving up to the next class at the end of February ). So do I send puréed stuff or wait until I feel like he's mastered eating table foods? The appeal to me is the baby led part. I want him to drive what he eats and how much.

We've told them several times we are skipping cereals. They said that he's crying when he finishes a bottle like he's still hungry. . I offered to send bigger bottles. The thing is if he's at home it takes a long ass time to feed a bottle. He chews on it for awhile before getting to business.

[nanaosaki06]

Daycare providers are pretty renowned for overfeeding. Really, a BFed baby probably doesn't eat more than 4 to 5 oz in a feeding. If he's hungry, give him more BM. Chances are he's not really hungry and they are just feeding him more instead of doing other things to chill him out. If your doing BLW there is no need for him to have more than maybe breakfast and dinner at first. So, I wouldn't send anything for him. If he wants to eat in a month or two, send him in regular lunches and snacks, no purees.

[awful]

Agreed with Nana. Food before 1 is just for fun and not really a necessity. I don't even think I started doing consistent solids until almost 10-11 months.

[mama2a]

How old is your LO? I started BLW at 7 months mostly because that is when I first learned about it so we were doing purees from 6-7 months. We were sending purees at daycare and figured daycare wouldn't be on board with BLW, but when I asked I stated by asking, "do you allow finger foods?" and the provider was like, "yeah! We encourage that!". So it worked out for us. Finger foods seem to be introduced for many around 9 months if parents aren't doing BLW so even if your daycare isn't on board with it now I would think as your infant is a little older maybe they would accept "finger foods".

[clldll]

I agree with Nana. If he's really hungry give more BM. He's likely just being fed too fast and they are wanting to overfeed instead of soothe him.

That being said, once G was eating more than one serving of solids a day(maybe 9-10 months), I did send stuff for him. We did a combo of purees and BLW and that worked well for us. If you want to be all BLW you can send things that will be easy for them to deal with at DC like bananas, zucchini sticks with hummus, watermelon, yogurt, etc.

[DGM]

No advice but amazon just delivered our BLW book today. Does anyone think the cookbook is necessary?

Going to bookmark this thread for reference

[rockiesnugget]

Just tell daycare that you will let them know when you are ready for them to give him food and leave it at that. You don't have to tell them that you are doing BLW and when you are ready for them feed LO, tell them that he is ready for XYZ finger foods. They understand finger foods better than BLW.

[rockiesnugget]

You might try taking away one bottle and increasing the amount in the rest of the bottles so that you are still sending the same amount. Then send a small emergency bottle if needed.

ETA: spelling

[awful]

I would be slightly wary of sending food if they are wanting to overfeed just to placate him. They might try to force him to finish when BLW is very laid back and let them eat as little or much (or none) that they want.

[tinkerham]

He just turned 6 months. He's sitting in a high chair, but can't really sit unassisted yet.

[rugger]

If he just turned 6 months, he definitely does not need any solids during the day.

Is it a certain time of day that they are saying he's still hungry? Maybe they could offer a 6oz bottle midday (or wherever they say he's extra hungry) and 4oz the rest of the time?

[CurlieWhirlie]

Jan 22, 2015 19:12:58 GMT -5 awful said:

Agreed with Nana. Food before 1 is just for fun and not really a necessity. I don't even think I started doing consistent solids until almost 10-11 months.

This is so easy to forget, but an important point! Food before 1 is just for fun. It rhymes!

[tinkerham]

And we regularly send 5 bottles, and he usually eats 3 of them. He's eaten a 5th bottle only once. So they could certainly offer him more food if he seems like he's hungry. I'm a little frustrated.

[TJ]

Just remember that you are the paremt and you pay them todo things your way. Do t let them talk you into something you aren't ready for.

[tinkerham]

Jan 22, 2015 21:42:56 GMT -5 TJ said:

Just remember that you are the paremt and you pay them todo things your way. Do t let them talk you into something you aren't ready for.

I told myself that the whole way home. I'm doing the best I can for this little guy and I shouldn't be intimidated. (I'm usually the least intimidated person, so this is new!) baby raising is hard.