Starting Solids and Daycare

kare_bear_12

So I started BLW this weekend with Hudson and did Avocados. Other moms doing solids or BLW, are you taking those foods to daycare for your teachers to also feed them or only doing solids at home and milk at school?

SurpriseAt39

IF LO was going to daycare I would probably only send milk there and do solids at home. (We will be doing BLW, but he's not looking for more than milk at the moment, so we haven't actually started yet)

I've heard many daycare's will only do purées, so you may want to check what they would even offer.

alfriedeck

Lo gets both at daycare.  my daycare provides formula and food (either solids or puree's).  But they will only offer foods that you specifically state they can.  It makes life so much easier

alfriedeck

Stupid question,  what is BLW?

jnhayden05

BLW is Baby Led Weaning.  It's skipping purees and going straight to SOLID food.  Lets baby decide how much to eat and learn to chew before swallowing.  They eat what you eat - which means less food prep.

We are doing BLW and are having trouble with other people feeling comfortable enough to feed our son.  Even our family is seriously freaked out about choking - no matter how I explain it to them.  So, for now, we do BLW only at home - mostly for dinner and on weekends.  The cool thing about BLW is if it doesn't fit in our schedule we don't worry about it.  If we eat breakfast/dinner/lunch while he's awake, he eats with us.  If he's asleep, we don't stress about it.  If you find a daycare that is comfortable with it, I would suggest starting with food he's already comfortable with - that you have tried at home.

Khope87

We have just started BLW the last few days (5.5months and she started grabbing so we've gone with it!) nothing swallowed or even bitten off yet, but lots of tasting so we're delighted with how it's going.

I'm in the UK and have chosen a childminder who has had one baby before that has done BLW and is happy to do it again family are a different story, but I will try to go round for dinner when I can so hopefully they can see it and get used to how it works

My childminder includes food in the cost and is on board with it, so I'm not taking food. We discussed what she could/couldn't eat and was really hot on the topic! She suggested some things she found they can hold easy (which helped strengthen my belief she truly gets it!) and said food she wasn't comfortable with for her own reasons - all of which I was ok with and seemed reasonable. Perhaps you could have the same discussion with your childcare and see if they have similar knowledge or if they start suggesting spoon foods? I tried to have the same discussion with my mum and she said she was on board and asked if she was also getting baby rice, porridge, jars etc? Errrrr no..... So turns out she didn't get the idea and hence why I plan to go round for "meals" as a practice

kare_bear_12

My daycare said that I could bring whatever food I have already tried and she would feed them. I am still going to try at home for the 1st month and then probably send some food with him.

LaurenAsh23

Blw here too and so far I'm sticking with just milk at dc. There are two other babies around Arabella's age, I would say once those two are doing food at daycare she will too. I think they'll do purées(provider makes the food), which I'll probably just let her do too, but still do blw at home.

Khope87

bennieangel said:

@Khope87- can I just say I like the  term "childminder" so British! Love it. 

glad you liked it! I didn't even notice it was a British only word....

I giggle to myself all the time when I read everyone's comments and have an American accent in my head! When I read them out to DH he laughs too and we have started picking up on some of the terms. Like 'daycare' is American - we'd say 'nursery' for a centre that looks after kids.

I've had to google a fair few things to know what you guys are going on about! Swing, rock 'n' play, pack 'n' play, diaper genie.... Can't remember the others now! Same language, totally different words

Mcsweets

Our daycare does solids with the twins, we told them what kind they're allowed to eat and they provide it for them

lazyreader

bennieangel said:

Those making your own baby food - what containers are you sending it to daycare in? I was thinking of getting some small canning jars? 

https://www.infantino.com/category.cfm?subcategory=5019

all you'd really need is the squeeze station and pouches. and I re-use the pouches (the cheapos)