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...


Thursday, 24 January 2008

The gift of Raisins



Florence has been quite unwell of late. Two extremely restless nights, which appear to affect Mummy more than Florence (Mummy looking none too hot). A high temperature has seen off any desire to eat much at all; not sure if this is a genuine precursor to an illness or teething. Any affliction is usually blamed on teething but with little else except tears and and a temperature we think that is probably the culprit. Back to the eating now though.

Raisins are very popular with all babies it would seem, however due to choking hazard most parents would not give them to a six month old baby. However a fourteen month old baby would give them to a baby. Mummy's friend Luan has a little girl called Tilda. When Tilda came to visit she felt so sorry for Truly Plumpscious, especially after borrowing Florence's dummy, as a sign of love Tilda promptly poked in Florence's mouth one of her own juicy little raisins. No signs of choking and Florence seemed pleased. Especially as it lasted quite a while and was still to be seen in her mouth ten minutes later.


Feeling brave and eager to see how well honed Florence's pincer grip was becoming, Mummy decided to give Florence some cinnamon and raisin toast for dinner. Florence loved it and spent the whole of dinner trying to pick up scattered raisins.




Florence was triumphant on more than one occasion and although Mummy's not sure if Truly Plumpscious is readyof a box of sunmaid yet she is glad Tilda introduced Florence to the world of dried fruit.

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