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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
kjsmith9
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How does BLW work at daycare?
kjsmith9
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Dropping in from 3-6 months, figuring you all have more experience with this... We're planning to start BLW in about a month, assuming DD is interested when the time rolls around. I've seen a lot of babies at daycare being fed baby cereal and whatnot, but obviously we aren't planning to do that with the BLW. I asked the teacher today what the deal is for starting solids, in respect to the food forms we need to fill out, and she said we can let her eat some of the food that daycare provides if we want (we can pick and choose from what's on the menu every day). At first she said they offer sweet potatoes and green beans (purees) and I told her we weren't doing spoon feeding. Then she said she could eat the regular food, but they would just chop it up into tiny pieces... Obviously that doesn't go along with BLW, since the recommendations is to cut food into fingers, not tiny pieces. At 6 months old, she won't be able to pick up tiny pieces and get them in her mouth.For those of you who have done BLW, or are planning to do it... How does it work with daycare? Do you explain the principles behind it and hope they'll go along with it? Do you just do dinner and forget about taking regular food for them until they get a little more experience (say at 7 or 8 months old)? Any other advice? We've already had quite a time with getting them to use the cloth diapers correctly... and telling them that she doesn't need gigantic bottles since she's breastfed... I'm afraid this is just going to add to the list of things and they're going to be like "ugh not ANOTHER weird thing from this mom!"
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Re: How does BLW work at daycare?
our DC doesn't provide food for the kids, so this wasn't super complicated for us. i just bring in the same food we give DS (almost 7 mos now) at home and told them to let him have at it, as long as they felt up to it. i told them that if the food i sent was something they weren't comfortable letting him eat, to just pass on it that day. i leave a back up container of applesauce at school for him to have on those days, and i just asked them to dunk the spoon into it so he can do it himself instead of them spoon feeding it to him. there have been a few occasions where they ended up tearing his food into small pieces because they claim he eats it better. i'm not going to get my panties in a twist about it since they're still giving it to him. they do still ask at least once a week when i'm going to bring in rice cereal, but then again they also keep asking when i'm going to wean from nursing and start formula. they may think i'm a weirdo, but they do what i ask so i don't care
ftr, i didn't start sending food into DC with him until he'd been doing BLW for about 2 weeks at home so that i knew for sure he could safely move food around (and out of) his mouth, and i don't send anything that he hasn't already tried at home.
We started BLW at 6 months and I just started sending food to daycare last week. She had at least 4 full weeks at home before I felt comfortable enough to allow them to give her food. I trust them, but I needed to see that DD was eating well in order to be ok with it. I spoke to them about it when we started and told them what I was planning. They said the same thing - start sending food that you know she can manage whenever you feel comfortable.
I try to send things she can make minimal messes with. Once you start BLW you'll know what I mean. So she gets shredded cheese, mango, broccoli, sweet potato, etc. I usually send 2 things to daycare every day.