Feeding your baby BLW style

So it took me a few days but I finally got through all 28 pages hi! I'm Laiela. I often read on moomie but rarely post, a combination of being hectically busy and too lazy to type on my phone! I can't even remember my login! But back to the topic, I have read all about blw and am fascinated. I have a nearly 4 year old, Chloe and a 7 month old, Hailey. Hailey's on cereal and purity and loves both. She also loves grabbing out of our plates but i have always stopped her before she got far. Since i work full time and only get home after she's eaten, i'm gonna try blw on weekends and see how we go. Hubby is also very intrigued along with my mil who cares for Hailey, so if it works well, i'll let her carry on during the week. I love reading the updates so keep em coming! Need to reregister or sort out my login so i can see the pics too! Oh, and regarding the ant and fly prob, Maxforce is my hero for ants, you get it at builders warehouse, it's pricey but nothing else works quite as well. And for flies, i've heard mint repels em. Take care and will hopefully update soon... When i'm not being lazy

Gave Ruru peach yeat as a snack.
He ate everything including the skin, he's never done this before, am surprised he even managed as he cant bite into it....

Do u think this will make him sick???? I ask coz most things Iv read say u must peel baby fruit. I leav the skin on so he gets a better grip

Thanks Marijke and I just want to add, it wasn't always this messy either, it's just that it was really saucy Pasta this time at a Restaurant. She was so cute though.

Sorry girls, I had to go out - you know, shopping and such

Here's a pic 2kidmamma asked me to post of her daughter Zoe, she told me that she was a secret BLW mommy (or more of a closet case since it didn't have a name back then ) with her from about 10 months and as you can see in the pic she already mastered eating with a fork at 20 months

Thanks for your help Marijke I have printed your reply and will share it with my mom and DH tonight!!

MommyN, I don't think you are doing anything wrong at all. I personally feel children running around with food in their hands and mouths is very wrong so sitting wherever is a good habbit regardless. I had to deal with a period of running after my LD with a spoon just to get food into him and after a while I realised I was teaching him some very bad manners so I stopped and then got him sitting in his chair again but I would feed him on a carpet or blanket if I needed to.

Someone must be reading my mind... I was just going to ask the same questions...

We started off with a clip-on chair as we were staying with my Mom on returning from overseas. It was great! mine is simple, from Game, R150.

When we moved back into our house, I bought a second hand high chair for R150 from a friend, kind of old fashioned, and SJ is probably the 3rd child to use it.

Cons about high chair: LG manouvres out of the straps, ideally, if I could have choosen and afforded it, I would have bought one with straps like the carseat where the straps come over the shoulders. But my girl is tiny, now only 7ks at 1 year, so maybe she is just too small. She manages to stand up in it, and that just scares me!

So now.... for the last 2 months, I feed her on a mat/quilt in either the lounge or kitchen, is this a bad habit? When we sit at the table as a family, she sits in her high chair and is quite good while she eats. But I am not always able to sit with her, and sometimes she is a bit picky, so I leave her.

As soon as she is bigger and able to sit in a proper kiddies chair, I will let her sit at a little table and chair, but until then, AM I DOING WRONG WITH HER SITTING ON THE FLOOR?

I insist that she sits "on her bum" and she is very good at this although she sometimes is a bit distracted and comes and goes. She is starting to want to stand and eat (at the coffee table). is there anything wrong with all of this? The latest is going onto her tummy and eating from her plate like a doggy (we dont have dogs for her to have learnt from!) I feel its just her way of learning what she can do!

We have good routine and manners in other aspects, like at a restaurant, I dont allow shouting, and in her pram she is mostly calm and content. She sits beautifully when we are at a table or in a restaurant in either a highchair or table chair. So personally, I dont think I am doing too much wrong. Any comments?

If it is bad to let her sit on the floor, what do I do? She will just manourve out of the belts in the chair and stand up! THen a struggle starts...