Florence led weaning...

I cant remember quite when or where I first heard about BLW but after reading up on the approach, I decided that BLW was for me, and truly plumpscious of course!
During my pregnancy with Florence I discovered MUCH had changed, sometimes a little radically and at times what seemed a little ridiculously, from when I had carried and reared my two other children. Suddenly there were hundreds of 'must have' little gadgets that it appeared I simply couldn't live without (nor could my as yet unborn child), even though I had done so before. Conversely, so many things were no longer available or deemed safe that my other two had adored or I had indeed found indispensible. Along with the new toys and gadgets I found many of the rules of baby rearing had changed too, most noticibly the guidelines surrounding weaning.
After the arrival of Florence, I found my ears ringing with the many, MANY different opinions on baby weaning and as such found myself searching out the rationale behind the 'guidelines'. It was here I must have stumbled across BLW.
So after devouring all the literature I could find (not a lot-see my links) I decided that BLW was the way to go.
Wish me luck...


Friday, 30 November 2007

Rice cakes R us

We love rice cakes! Ra ra ra. The pale crispy polystyrene tasting discs of fun. Florence has discovered that she can have one of these and feast for literally hours. She can store any left overs under her chin, in her neck, armpit, even elbow and continue to suck and gum away hours after the fact. Laden with philly they can even be stored on the roof of her mouth for supper mmmm mmmm.

We decided to go with the rice cakes even though some of the packets (heinz) say not for babies under twelve months and even though it is not in keeping with the not wheat/gluten / fun/ taste/ solid 'guidelines'. The cow and gate ones say six months so maybe not soooo bad. Extremely handy tho'. We have shared a organix biscuit too, with a friend Oliver. That went down a treat, especially on her clothes, in her ears, eyes and all over Mummy too.

I'm not exactly sure how much food Florence is taking in, and to be honest a little part of me is still concerned that I'm giving her food that 'guidelines' (grrrrr) advise against but so far, fingers crossed, everything is going well. Florence's nappies definately indicate some food is reaching her tum tho'!
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