tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38956708696081818362011-11-28T00:38:57.420ZThis is a collection of my experience of Baby led Weaning. If you are puree feeding and it works for you...fabulous!But having done this twice and still working through feeding and food issues at 11 and 14 we're trying something different...fingers crossed xCarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-12423856109802479272011-02-04T21:03:00.000Z2011-02-04T21:03:30.546Z

Tabitha asked for a chocolate yesterday, we're still working our way through Christmas Chocolate! There's only really the dodgy ones left so we were working our way though them and I found myself thinking that she couldn't have the bounty because it wasn't a childs chocolate! I was quite shocked at myself, as I do give her the dark ones etc, anyway I know it's only chocolate but it does

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Things are still going really well. I've noticed that Tabitha doesn't eat with her eyes, my other daughter who is still really fussy, always looks at things before she will even try them. Tabitha just puts everything straight into her mouth and then decides if she likes it or not. She really enjoys meat! which is surprising as I'm a vegetarian. I'm attaching a picture of Tabs enjoying a boiled

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-56733850906233719362010-08-28T19:39:00.000+01:002010-08-28T19:39:28.245+01:00

We have recently been on holiday and many people commented on how much Tabitha was enjoying the sand! She was in her element, eating it, rubbing it in her face and destrying any sandcastle in sight!!!

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I am on holiday from work so I have a few minutes to post and update! I wanted to note how Tabitha was doing especially now it is not me that is doing her main feeding. I have noticed that if she is hungry she will quite happily be fed, I guess she thinks why do you fill the spoon, give me the spoon and then I feed myself..just cut out the middle man! I'm fine with this as there are some times

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Well the time has come to go back to work... I am at the very least ambivilent at the moment. Not dreading it as I am needing a change but not looking forward to the long hours and missing all my family. However, I feel that I have had a wonderful year, I hope that David Cameron does not do a u turn on Maternity Benefits as I feel that having the space of a year has made all the difference to me

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 Tabitha was one last month and blw has been so much more than weaning.. I have come to realise that is has permeated all aspects of child rearing. It has affected our daily lives in to many ways, it has made us realise that you can trust your childs instincts in many ways, we have not had to have any battles of control and Tabitha still hasn't learnt to say NO! We are so happy with how it has

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I have been thinking today that my blog is a bit different to other blw blogs in that I do not really print any receipes. There is a reason ffor this... I wanted Tabitha to eat...just eat... I am not to worried if she eats shellfish or if she eats jam sandwiches...I just want her to eat. This comes from my experience of having two girls who have never eaten well. I also feel that you can cook

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I was nonimated by Julie B at http://thesardinetin.blogspot.com/ for a photo meme, my first, don't really know what to do but here goes..hope I've done it right and sorry it's taken soooo long!! I'd like to tag the following bloggers to carry on the chain as they were the first blogs I read..... The heartful blogger,Life through the Slim Lens. Not sure what you do with that but I have finally

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Tabitha has started her settling in visits at nursery, which at the moment shes not loving but hey ho! But I did see on the baby led weaning forum a post about a leaflet on Baby Led Weaning, which was excellent brief information to hand over. I also sent it to my HV and she is using it with new mums! Result!! Please see link below... http://www.rapleyweaning.com/assets/blwleaflet.pdf

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I am sorry I haven't updated for a while, I suppose it's because Tabithas eating is now really the norm although she is still coming on leaps and bounds. She goes through phases of what we would call being lazy, because when we hold food out for her she just opens her mouth!! to cut out the middle man I guess, and I know that your not supposed to put food in their mouths but if she's inviting us

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Things are begining to change, it has happened so gradually that I really haven't noticed but Tabitha is now really eating for her hunger and not drinking her milk for hunger. Sometimes now i will give her a feed first, but other times not and she's perfectly happy either way. She still has her feed in the morning, then one at lunch, tea and small one before bed. So it looks like we're down to 4

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-61848062532976822762010-03-01T23:01:00.001Z2010-03-01T23:04:46.854Z

Sorry meant to link this ages ago!

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I was thinking about this today. I don't know about you but if I'm starting something new I usually throw myself in hook line and sinker and order everything I'm 'supposed' to 'need'. My theory is that this is why blw is not a popular way of weaning...as there's no money in it! All you need is 'the book' (baby led weaning by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett) obviously, a good high chair, that

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-72607016711191351842010-02-28T23:41:00.000Z2010-02-28T23:41:43.702Z

Having a post fest!! Just wanted to put down on record how Tabs is doing with baby signing. She has her little tricks that she does now.. Dancing..well wobbling head seem to count as dancing, very funny especially as her fave is Lady Gaga, must get that on video. Soooo Big Clap hands Waving bye and hello and also used for night night Gimme five! gives her spoon back for more food She will do

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I wanted to post this separately as it's something I feel quite strongly about. I was filling in Tabithas baby book that other day and came across the wording..things I like to eat and thinks I don't like to eat! Now that may seem harmless enough in itself but there was a similar wording in dd1's baby book and at five months old I wrote 'doesn't like orange food!' which I would have wrote LOL

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Tabitha out shopping! I really feel that I don't have much to report regarding blw at the moment, I don't think we're in a rut it's just that it's going really smoothly! Tabitha is getting very good at feeding herself, she is starting to recognise foods she really likes..satsumas being something that seem to really get her excited. She will try anything if she's hungry and makes really clear

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-41299698145510954612010-02-24T21:43:00.000Z2010-02-24T21:43:46.948Z

I saw this forum mentioned on the blw forum, it looks like it could be an invaluable source of info to all breasfeeding mums, especially first timers. Shame I didn't see it sooner.... 14 years ago would have been great!!!! http://www.milkymums.co.uk/

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I had a heads up from mindful mum at british mummy bloggers that she couldn't leave a comment for me on here, I'm sorry if thats happened to anyone reading this blog as I would love to hear from anyone! I've changed my seeings now so hopefully it will work now! ps I love seeing that I have actually had visitors to my blog from all over the world (my daughter gets very excited to look at the map

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-59302255324348838872010-02-19T23:24:00.000Z2010-02-19T23:24:43.783Z

I have been think what a fabulous resource and life saver this forum has been while we have been blw. When I started out looking for information on blw there really wasn't much on the internet apart from a few mentions on baby sites. One of the most useful site I found was Jacob led weaning, a mothers blog on her journey of blw, this really gave me faith that I wouldn't be a;lone when I started

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Tabs cut her first tooth today. It has crept up on us, as she hasn't had any problems...so far... I noticed it today as she had her fingers in her mouth while eating and I think she caught it with her sharp little finger nails as she started to cry and she never does, I managed to get a peep and lo and behold it was there.. Bless

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We are experiencing problems with our download speed (I think!) and you really begin to realise how much the whole house relies on the lap top! It our daughters birthday, i had ordered most of her stuff but can't moonpig her a card so she'll be really upset, we can't get phone numbers or addresses. watch you tube, update i pods, generally google rubbish or upload photos to my blog...rubbish!!

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-73796344514062735272010-02-15T23:24:00.000Z2010-02-15T23:24:17.381Z

Not quite worked out how to use the site yet...any help would be apprieciated!!! Visit British Mummy Bloggers

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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-30460193829439922682010-02-04T20:56:00.001Z2010-02-04T20:57:57.828Z

I have realised that when I been shopping for Tabitha some weeks I forget to buy things that she likes but it doesn't seem to matter as she eats such a varied diet that we still have enough of a variety to last over a week. This is such a new thing for me as the girls have always had should a limited diet that we but the same things week in week out. So I thought I would make a list of all the

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-50224555952550742632010-02-03T19:40:00.000Z2010-02-03T19:40:27.324Z

Tonight has been a bit of an eye opener as regards my feelings around food! I thought I was relaxed about it but obviously not! I made some sweetcorn fritters for Tabitha to have for tea and made extra in the hope that DD1 and2 would come home from school and think they look good and would eat them..no it's not the Waltons here in reality maybe just in my head! Anyway DD1 did come in and did

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-4365214753093356682010-02-02T21:23:00.001Z2010-02-02T21:23:53.772Z

Diary of Baby Led Weaning: 9 months in....

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I have been thinking about how far we have come since we started this journey with baby led weaning. The best way to see progress, I find, is to look back at how things were compare them to how they are now. I use this a lot when I feel anything is moving slowly. I think what made me realised how far Tabitha has come is comparing the two videos that we have taken and posted. The messy phase

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Today I felt that Tabitha had really come on leaps and bounds. I have bought chubbier spoons for Tabs to use as the longer weaning spoons were going to the back of her throat! She loved the Veggie Haggis as its quite spicy and she used her spoon like a pro! She is getting less and less messy everyday...

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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-86516523519747421472010-01-19T21:49:00.000Z2010-01-19T21:49:54.787Z

I didn't realise it had been so long since I last posted... That'll be the snow distracting me. BLW has really come into it's own while the weather was bad as we couldn't get out to do a great deal of shopping! We have also been away to Centerparcs, as we were in the middle of all the snow and didn't even know if we would get there we didn't do any shopping to take with us, so I didn't take

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-12695080964497102132009-12-29T23:30:00.000Z2009-12-29T23:30:59.448Z

Well today we finally managed an 'in' day! It's been so busy.. Tabitha's appetite has finally returned, it's taken it's time but she must be feeling better now as she has not stopped eating today. I am eternally grateful to blw at this time because I can imagine how stressed I would have been had I been feeding her 3 meals a day, so instead of offering her food I have just bf her and then when

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Tabitha has had a cold this week or teething we're not sure!! But I realised she was starting with something when at the Toddlers Christmas Party she didn't go for the big piece of chocolate cake \i was eating.. I sure sign I suppose that she really is doing baby led weaning as this didn't stress me at all as I have to understand that she will eat when she's hungry again. She has had mainly milk

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-48546331206315442522009-12-14T21:01:00.000Z2009-12-19T21:20:39.693Z

Just a quickie to say I am very happy tonight as I have made a Rice Pudding and Tabitha loved it!! It's been my dream for a long time to make something I love that my children do too!! Yipee!!

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We've had some visitors over for the weekend and I felt very proud of Tabitha and what she has achieved eating wise since they saw her last... I realised how far she had come when she sat on my lap tucking into a bowl of spagetti, digging in with her hands and hoovering it up! Very interesting to watch others reactions to BLW when they have never heard of it...

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-39977270106009749982009-12-10T22:45:00.000Z2009-12-10T22:45:02.385Z

Hurrah! I perfected these today, I made the porridge quite thick before pouring it on to the plate so when it was cooked it was more like a crumpet, I then allowed it to cool and then spread on Ginger Preserve..when down very well. We have also discovered the morning pancakes sold in supermarkets, these disappear very quickly and are great if you need a quick non messy breakfast, I spread either

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-78263066004601573002009-12-06T21:48:00.000Z2009-12-06T21:48:26.890Z

Tabitha went to her first Christmas Party today which she seemed to enjoy. There was games, Father Christmas and Presents and also party food, now previously with my other two daughters this would be the stressful bit, DD1 would not have sat at the table at all and DD2 would have just ate the chocolate and crisps..I have realised in the last couple of days that I really just want Tabitha to eat

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-58035546487604952582009-12-04T13:17:00.000Z2009-12-04T13:17:44.410Z

I realised today that the whole monitoring of babies with the Centile Charts, (which are based on bottle fed babies anyway, so if you breastfed you are at a disadvantage straight away, shocking really when the NHS are supposed to be promoting breastfeeding), could have an adverse effect on how a child is introduced to food. If the baby is not tracking its particular line this can be stressful

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Yesterday Tabs and I went to our usual Thursday morning mothers meeting, it was the first time I had taken Tabitha and gave her something to eat properly without her just nibbling. I sat her in a high chair and she tucked into one of the scones in made the other day Cheese and Pesto followed by a satsuma. I found myself to be very relaxed about the whole thing... I have to say more of the scone

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-14007974707492737652009-12-02T21:43:00.000Z2009-12-02T21:43:40.393Z

It was time to take Sebastianna back to the complimentary therapist today to catch up on her progress with her EFT. She had started off very very well making and trying her cheese on toast, but it had become more difficult with her as she could not be bothered to do her tapping. We explained that tonight, and we had decided that it really is a habit she has, to just refuse food point blank. She

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-32664353306459273272009-11-29T23:08:00.000Z2009-11-29T23:08:53.501Z

It's been a busy old time since Thursday.. On Thursday Sebastianna and I had our grade 1 piano exam, I felt really calm till I got in there.. I was thinking to myself this is nothing...I've just had a baby!! However the nerves took over, basti thought she did well though..results in two weeks... The exam was over in Berwick so a couple of hours travelling, I took wakey, wakey cakes for Tabs but

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-32292779296583919072009-11-25T21:05:00.000Z2009-11-25T21:05:02.829Z

Had a visit from my HV the other day, she's really pleased with Tabithas progress and also very interested in Baby Led Weaning, really taking the lead from the mothers in the village that are choosing to use this method. Tabitha has put on some weight in the last month, she is only wee but is finally reached the 13lb mark! I went Asda shopping today and it really made me realise how little

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Today was one of those incredibly busy days that was just nonstop, will very little free time and plans changing by the minute...weather hasn't helped we have had some flooding, not in the house thankfully but our field was swept away but thankfully not the horses! Anyway my mum had Tabitha most of the day, I think the longest she has had her for in one sitting due to her being exclusively bf. We

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-5554081895322793452009-11-21T17:29:00.000Z2009-11-21T17:29:37.843Z

Just a quick post to say I made these, I found the receipe on the forum and Tabs loved them. Really easy to make, would be great to take out as a convienience finger food..I'm going to look up some more food ideas now, its great when they are a success but I have to be ready for them not to be... otherwise things can begin to get stressful, so it's best to make things we can all enjoy that way

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-47918032476103862122009-11-19T20:37:00.000Z2009-11-19T20:37:09.923Z

Tabs has had two meals today, breakfast was weetabix followed by banana and for lunch Lentil Dahl as I saw recommended on the BLW forum with pitta bread and hummus. Both of these meals were very very messy which got me thinking about how I would have handled this 13 years ago, and the answer is that obviously I wouldn't have been able to as I would have thought that it was bad to leave Bea

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-34122591051498171442009-11-17T13:17:00.000Z2009-11-17T13:17:29.550Z

We went away to Manchester for the weekend and as I am really not trying to give Tabs special food etc I wondered how we would go on. I took some fruit, yogurt and rusks for ease but we only used these in the morning for breakfast and the rest of the time she just picked at what we had and bf. We went out to TGI Fridays on saturday night where she had some brushetta and then promptly fell asleep,

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-32734011729645386342009-11-16T14:38:00.000Z2009-11-16T14:38:28.693Z

There for the grace of God..... http://ceop.police.uk/madeleine/madeleine.asp

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Sebastianna today had a cheese panini while out to lunch... she just picked it up and started to eat it in quite big bites, whereas usually she would examine it first, break off tiny bits with her fingers and take tiny tiny nibbles...she ate just under half of the panini... very pleased and very impressed!!

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-64024039336645053732009-11-12T21:02:00.000Z2009-11-12T21:02:38.667Z

Had to put this on my blog tonight... I had decided to take sebastianna for EFT to help her to try new food, as we were failing miserably and the fact that Tabitha is eating more things than she ever has I noticed was making her upset. EFT had worked miracles for Bea so nothing ventured nothing gained.. We went tonight and she worked with the therapist on a goal of trying some cheese on toast..

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-58006982093365581442009-11-11T19:43:00.000Z2009-11-19T20:26:08.164Z

My what a difference a week makes, it is amazing how little ones pick things up so quickly. Tabs would have 3 meals a day I think but I am trying to hold off a little so she can still get plenty of breastmilk. Breakfast is a given, she has milk on waking then about 8 has her breakfast, the last couple of days she has had porridge on a loaded spoon, she seems to be eating quite a lot of it too!

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-39829394279512935972009-11-08T23:30:00.000Z2009-11-08T23:30:45.620Z

When my eldest daughter Beatrix was weaning she only seemed to likethe packets of food, I couldn't even get her to eat jars of food she would clamp her mout shut and refuse, bacause I was coming at weaning from a 'you need to eat' stance instead of a 'hey foods and adventure, enjoy!'stance I just wanted to get food in her, she became a creature of habit eating the same things day in day out. At

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-22593778869955980932009-11-08T22:56:00.000Z2009-11-08T22:56:04.197Z

forgot to say that Basti did the same song for her audition that she did for Brownies got Talent and won with... it's on my video bar...bless her!!!

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-3085200011746574872009-11-08T22:51:00.000Z2009-11-08T22:51:49.779Z

Well it's been a busy old weekend, my 10 year old had decided to audition for Britains got talent, in Newcastle which is at least an hourand a half away plus all the waiting time..I was getting a little stressed about how we were going to manage and i had a sore boob as tabitha had bitten or gummed me as the girls like to say...plus the worry of if Sebastianna would actually go through with it...

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-37844089230772911922009-11-06T22:20:00.000Z2009-11-19T20:21:47.518Z

Things have really been going well this week. We have just looked at some photos taken in the last two weeks and all of them are of Tabitha eating something or other, we are just so amazed at a child that will eat without refusing ANYTHING! Today we tried the Porridge Pancake receipe that we discovered on the Baby Led Weaning forum, They were really easy to make and Tabitha really enjoyed them,

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-76647035215222141432009-11-01T13:47:00.000Z2009-11-01T13:57:30.899Z

Well tabitha is now six months so we can begin seriously. She has been having tastes of things for a while now and is very food curious so it now just seems a natural progression into more serious meal times. In some ways I am not in a great hurry as BF is so easy and so convienient that to start to introduce food is more hassle although with BLW I am not having to prepare any extra food or

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-31261599885156821042009-10-12T15:04:00.000+01:002009-10-12T15:27:45.630+01:00

I thought I would write down our journey to BLW. I have two older daughters born in 1996 and 1998, attitudes to weaning were very different to what they are today, I hadn't realised this until I started to research weaning again. In 1996 had Bea wanted to take anything from our plate the attitude would be that it would be rude and the height of bad manners and wouldn't be encouraged at all... and

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666874035706350848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895670869608181836.post-50322122138369400542009-10-09T19:18:00.000+01:002009-10-09T19:25:11.130+01:00

When breastfeeding is spoken about it is usually referred to a feeding on demand... I always preferred to say it was 'baby led', I felt that this description would make me feel less under pressure, as on demand makes the baby sound 'demanding'. So when I was browsing through Amazon one day I noticed a book called Baby Led Weaning by Gill Rapley,ordered it and what I found inside was the answer to

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Hi! I'm Caroline and I wanted to have a record of weaning my daughter Tabitha the Baby Led Weaning way... This was new to me (so is blogging) as I have weaned my two other daughters Beatrix and Sebastianna the way recommended by usual baby advice, but with mixed results which I will detail later. I also wanted to let more people see how easy BLW is and maybe inspire others to try it!!

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