It’s not a good idea to go down the route of Baby Led Weaning without a decent bib. With a 6 month old baby feeding themselves from the start; mess is going to happen. I recently wrote a post on how to deal with the mess of Baby Led Weaning, you can read it here. …
Baby Led Weaning has pretty much ground to a halt this week. I can honestly say that I can see why some people are tempted to spoon feed their babies to make sure that they have actually had something to eat. I haven’t done so, as I’m confident that Charlie isn’t actually going hungry, despite …
I’m not afraid of mess. I knew exactly what I was letting myself in for this time round, having done BLW with Oliver 3 years ago. Yesterday, I gave boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast. I’m notoriously rubbish at boiling eggs. Instead of being lovely and dippy they were hard boiled. Boy, did I underestimate …
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We are now on week 3 of weaning, and Charlie is starting to make really good progress and a LOT of mess. This week he has been awake and happier at dinner times, so he has been joining in with family meals. His first ever ‘proper’ meal was sausage, mash and vegetables. Sausages are quite …
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a massive Harry Potter fan. The term for people like me is a ‘Potterhead’. At my hen party we played ‘plant a kiss on Harry Potter’ instead of pin the tail. Amongst my wedding presents was a wand. Yes, really. My two children share names with characters …
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Weaning has been slow this week. Last week Charlie turned 6 months old and I started weaning him. See how we started off week 1 here. My eldest son Oliver, who is now 3 didn’t stop once he’d started weaning. He took to it like a natural and was eating hot chilli con carne (still …
“Just give the baby what you eat.” That’s the most common reply I see on my Facebook weaning group whenever people ask how to start Baby Led Weaning (BLW) or introduce solids at 6 months. I often think to myself that’s not actually particularly helpful, or practical advice to someone who doesn’t really know where …
Unless you live under a rock you’ll know that breastfeeding, particularly in public, can be quite a controversial topic. Before I had my own babies, naively, I never understood the need for the #normalisebreastfeeding movement. Maybe that’s because to me, it was already normal. My mum fed me and my sister, I remember as a …
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How do you help a friend through a tough time from hundreds of miles away? A few years ago, a really good friend’s Mum was diagnosed with cancer, it was terminal. She was, and still is, one of my loveliest, kindest, funniest, warmest and most inspiring friends. She also lives in a different country to …