Feeding your baby BLW style

Just a side note - sorry for the long reply - my sister did it with her now 5 year old little girl and they gave her everything and anything to eat. She now fights her father for the eyes of a fish (gross!!!)

MHM, B would scream when I brought the spoon near her and locked up like a clam. So it stressed me (and her) out completely just to finish even a tiny bit of any type of food (cereals or purees)

Would I have continued had spoonfeeding worked. I doubt, I heard about BLW before I got pregnant and really wanted to try it so when the pead said 'its time' I felt a bit bullied into it and ignored my natural instinct that told me to ignore him and wait to start BLW (I wasn't prepared to ask him about it because I knew what his answer would be - it's something unheard of by them), but I didn't because he's a pead you know. And after reading so many topics on spoonfed babies being picky eaters and struggling to except texture and mothers of 1 or 2 year olds still dragging pots of purity around I really didn't want that.

My problem also then was that I for instance didn't know how on earth I would prepare an apple (example) to mush up to feed her and I wanted her to be free to try anything and not restricted to how much time I could spend separately preparing mush for her (since time is the last thing I have)

Since I didn't want her to eat purity and in a month I got as far as frozen butternut and sweetpotatoes (which I had to throw away later because she stopped eating it completely) I kind of ran out of ideas. I wanted her to eat green beans and spinach and really enjoy it.

But the part of BLW that stuck with me the most back then was how it helps babies enjoy good food and mushed and mixed veggies/meat/potatoes bite for bite tastes the same and I wanted her to know from very young how everything tastes on its own.

She is such a great little eater and what I would never have guessed is how much she would like greenbeans and peas. Not saying that she will continue to like it when she's two, but we are very laid back about dinner times and it just works so well

Marijke. Obviously you tried the cereals and purity, but you say it didn't work for you? Can I ask why not? and if it had worked and B had enjoyed eating pureed food from a spoon, would you have continued doing it that way?!

Don't scare me already! I was a nightmare

Imagine what she is going to be like as a teenager! Eeek!

Thanks Jems. I did start solids as blah "the pead said" but it was so unrewarding. (possibly made it through a week, two max) I made ice cubes of pureed veggies and had 5 different types of cereals that I had to throw and give away later because I would defrost one cube and had to throw away more than half and it was stressing me out (when I hear how much other babies her age were putting away already) and I didn't feel like forcing her to eat (which I tried and it ended in tears for both of us)

B is a very strong willed little girl and has been since birth so I think BLW just added to the independance that she wanted so early on.

But I think that the BLW will have definitely helped it along.

And you doing BLW is quite special. You looked at conventional feeding, decided this is not for you two as it wasn't working and tried something else. Very brave. Most would just plod along.