BLW article

Mrs.Teddy

I came across this article and thought some of you may find it interesting!

We did BLW with L and I think its one of the best decisions we ever made, he had almost no spoon fed purees. We will be doing the same with this baby as well.

I will link it but in summary, BLW is introducing appropriate fingers foods and letting baby direct the feeding, and self feed. It has been linked to lower BMIs as well as a preference for healthy carbs in comparison to spoon fed infants who have links to higher BMIs (obviously related to concerns regarding childhood obesity) and a preference for sweet foods.

It also appears that babies who self feed learn when to detect that they are full and stop eating easier then baby's who are spoon fed and often habitually encouraged to finish a specified amount.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000298.full.html#ref-list-1

 

aliska

Thanks for the article.  I'm glad that they controlled for socioeconomic status because my first reaction was that BLW parents would be people more likely to eat more veggies themselves and have better BMIs.  Socioeconomic status helps to control for this, but I would still bet there is a higher correlation from parent BMI to child BMI than weaning style.  I'm totally for BLW, but the study should have tried to control for other environmental and genetic factors.  If they would have had controled for parent's BMI, then it would be interesting to see if there was still a correlation between BLW and lower BMI.

tangerine1126

Thanks for sharing! I just got my BLW book yesterday and I'm really excited to start in a couple of months with DS.