Extremist...?

[Butterfly Dawn]

Nobody here gets it. Hubby is always slipping in mouthfuls of stuff- to make sure she gets fed lol
In the early days people seem so eager to push food into a baby. My mil put dd off rice totally for about 6 weeks because of her inability to "let it go" and then filled her up on choc bics. Needless to say, I keep dd away from her if we are eating with them. She still spoon feeds our 4/5 year old!
baby knows and learns at their own pace

[Liz]

Yeah, it usually comes from the need to 'know' how much food they've eaten, and it's usually related to stuffing them full so they sleep

Our experience has been mostly BLS with the odd fork mushed plateful, or spoon feeding rice etc. We have great eaters now that eat anything and everything. We didn't get trapped on the puree roundabout at all.

I tell people that you only need to puree food if you start solids early. Once they're 6 months they can do finger foods. Since we start solids after 6 months, we have no need for puree. I do use the odd jar of pureed fruit to sweeten up a bit of muesli, but that's about it. People are amazed when I pull out a little box of finger foods for a baby, when it's common to take along squeezie packs of yoghurts or fruit purees.

You should see the shocked faces when I tell them I don't introduce water until 12 months! LOL. Not on purpose usually btw... just happens that way here, that 12 months rolls around I go 'oh.. I spose I should get you a sippy cup or something soon'. All drinks are breastmilk otherwise!

I also get comments (mainly from IL's) about what bub is eating. We don't give bland food here.. they get family food. So if it's got chilli in it, they eat chilli. They eat curries and spices and all those goodies. I've never understood the need to make baby food bland. How boring!

[HotI]

My Mum thought it was all abit wierd when i started bls with DD. now she has seen dd and more recently DS start this way, she loves it and talks it up to others.

i wouldn't be happy with anybody forcing food into my kids mouths, or going against what i have decided.

[Jennifer13]

No one thinks any one thing I do is any more weird than everything else now, so I guess they'd all be surprised if I did something 'normal'. LOL What with the homebirthing, full term breastfeeding, babywearing and BLSing, there's plenty to wonder at. Lucky cloth nappies are not uncommon around here!

In my own family, DD1 was the first on both sides, watching her and DD2 has led both my sister and SIL to do BLS with their babies. Not sure about my second sister, because her bub is still too small for food, but probably.

It's also led my mum to adjust her feeding of the foster babies she cares for, although that is probably because my sister does BLS too and she lives nearby.