Baby led weaning with daycare center?

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

"I have no idea what you're talking about but I know I'm mad about it!"

[Anonymous]

We didn't follow a super strict plan of BLW with DD, who was at a daycare. She had purees sometimes and finger foods at other times. Mostly, I saw the whole thing as an experiment with flavor and texture for her, particularly at that age. We skipped cereals and went to pieces of avocado, banana, sweet potato, etc. - things that were soft but not pureed. We had purees as a backup for daycare and also for on-the-go situations where getting messy wasn't the best plan. We also did pieces of pasta (very well cooked) and beans and shreds of cheese, etc. - basically anything that let her use her pincer grip to pick it up and put it in her mouth.

I would just talk to your daycare, OP, and see what they are able to do and what's more than they can handle. Our daycare had one of those tables with seats in it, so putting a few pieces of whatever in front of DD while also feeding other babies wouldn't have been an issue. They were already doing that with Cheerios and such so that babies would not get frustrated when other babies were getting fed.

[Anonymous]

In my son's Montessori daycare, they don't really call it baby led weaning, they just call it lunch time, but because of state regulations they start a little later than you're thinking of starting. I think he did purees there until he was maybe 8 months? (So, between 5 and 8 months) and then they just started giving him what the other older infants were eating. His daycare provides all food. But, since it's Montessori, they were way more pro-finger foods and utensils with my son than I ever was. At home, we did a mixture of pureed food I made, pouches, and small finger foods (like small pasta).

I would think that the logistics are important, and you might have to recognize that your daycare can't make an exception. If all the kids are spoon fed purees at the same time, they might not be able to adequately and safely manage your child eating real food. The room your child is in might not be set up to handle real food.

Also, don't be too rigid. Most/many babies go back and forth between easy solids and purees and don't have issues. We had a similar schedule to yours, and mostly introduced new and exciting food on the weekends, and it all turned out fine. It felt like one day he was devouring pouches and yogurt and occasionally a banana spear and the next day it was all real food all the time. My 2 year old uses a legit knife to chop up his own fruits and vegetables and I haven't spoon fed him since he was 15 months old (and even then, it was rare). And, the period of time between 6 months and 8 months (the puree stage) is SO short, and doing what is easy isn't going to wreck your kid for life.

[Anonymous]

After that kid recently choked to death on a meatball at the DoL daycare (which I know has nothing to do with BLW/the kid was like 3), our daycare sent home a new set of formal "rules" for food (rather than just leaving it up to the individual caregivers). Though not directed at BLW, it would have ruled it out in the early stages, so I wouldn't be shocked if you get pushback.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

Babies eating cheerios is fine. Babies eating chicken drumsticks, and parents insisting that spoon feeding/purees are terribly harmful = weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

Babies eating cheerios is fine. Babies eating chicken drumsticks, and parents insisting that spoon feeding/purees are terribly harmful = weird.

OK... one of these is a real food and the other isn't. What's wrong with chicken? My baby goes wild for chicken. Cheerios are not a real food!

[Anonymous]

I have had two kids and both of my kids utterly refused to be spoon fed. This was not for lack of trying on our part.

So we did BLW out of necessity. I sent the containers to daycare with chunks of food. All soft foods at first so there is no fear of choking (avocado, banana, sweet potato, etc.). The very well-intentioned daycare ladies mushed it all up and tried to spoon feed my second (first went to daycare after we were already out of the infant stage) who just totally rejected it. Yet at the same time they were feeding Cheerios and puffs to the other babies, so after a little cajoling they got on board and just put out what I sent. And were constantly astounded that he would just pick it up and eat it.

The spoon fed kids were no cleaner than my kid. In fact, they may have been messier due to purees being spit back out or dribbling down their faces.

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

Babies eating cheerios is fine. Babies eating chicken drumsticks, and parents insisting that spoon feeding/purees are terribly harmful = weird.

OK... one of these is a real food and the other isn't. What's wrong with chicken? My baby goes wild for chicken. Cheerios are not a real food!

Pureed chicken is fine for infants. Pieces of chicken are a choking hazard. http://www.candokiddo.com/news/choking

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

Babies eating cheerios is fine. Babies eating chicken drumsticks, and parents insisting that spoon feeding/purees are terribly harmful = weird.

I did BLW and neither I, nor anyone I know who did BLW would ever suggest that spoon feeding or purees are harmful. It's just another way to do it - for me, it was the easier option - there were no downsides at all except that it probably was messier. Where I am from (the UK), it is nearly as common as puree feeding so I didn't see it as deviating from the normal way, it was just another option, and to me puree feeding seems to be the more unusual choice now that the general guidance is not to wean until 6 months. I don't know why everything has to be so polarized though: BLW vs purees, breastfeeding vs bottlefeeding, etc. Just feed your kid, end of story!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

Babies eating cheerios is fine. Babies eating chicken drumsticks, and parents insisting that spoon feeding/purees are terribly harmful = weird.

OK... one of these is a real food and the other isn't. What's wrong with chicken? My baby goes wild for chicken. Cheerios are not a real food!

Pureed chicken is fine for infants. Pieces of chicken are a choking hazard. http://www.candokiddo.com/news/choking

Pieces of soft shredded chicken are not a choking hazard. The only thing either of my BLW kids ever choked on was a piece of lamb when we were well into toddlerhood and out of the BLW weaning stage.

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Anonymous wrote:This is insanity. Your baby is already weaned. They go without for the 40+ hours a day they are at day care. Just give them a bottle. Please let go of the idea that your child is breastfed. They are bottle fed except on nights and weekends and, clearly, if your kid goes to day care,
The kid has already figured out that milk comes from more than one place. Any trauma you are trying to avoid with "baby-led" weaning has already occurred when you took away the boob when you went back to work.

what are you talking about, weirdo?

BLW is weird, though, and the direct extension of breastfeeding as a way to perfect your child's nutrition through weird, difficult-to-implement rules. Purees are fine.

JFC does no one know what baby led weaning is? It's feeding finger foods instead of purees. Not difficult at all (except maybe the clean up).

Gotta love DCUM where people express strong opinions about things they literally do not even know about

No, I know what baby-led weaning is. It's not just finger foods. No daycare will have an issue with giving your kid some cheerios. It insists that pureed foods and spoon feeding are bad, and says that babies should be given large chunks of food to chew on. It minimizes choking risks, and claims that babies just "gag" on the food. Even if it's not a choking hazard it can be extremely messy (e.g., smearing banana or avocado everywhere) in a way that may not be practical or fair in a daycare setting. In addition, daycare settings are typically 3:1 or even 4:1 ratios with babies of weaning age. That makes it even riskier to give a 6 month old a chicken drumstick to gnaw on.

Whatever, PP. It's babies feeding themselves, not "weird" or "difficult to implement" at all. Have you ever seen a baby in a daycare? Smeared banana and avocado are not a huge deal at all. This is what bibs are for. The teachers may actually appreciate a baby who is feeding herself and doesn't need to be spoon-fed.

OP, one thing I'd recommend is that you perhaps invest in a bunch of these and send them to daycare to minimize mess: https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Waterproof-Sleeved-Chevron-Months/dp/B00NEHWTM8/ref=sr_1_15_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495122154&sr=8-15&keywords=bibs

Other PP needs to get a grip.

Babies eating cheerios is fine. Babies eating chicken drumsticks, and parents insisting that spoon feeding/purees are terribly harmful = weird.

OK... one of these is a real food and the other isn't. What's wrong with chicken? My baby goes wild for chicken. Cheerios are not a real food!

Pureed chicken is fine for infants. Pieces of chicken are a choking hazard. http://www.candokiddo.com/news/choking

Pieces of soft shredded chicken are not a choking hazard. The only thing either of my BLW kids ever choked on was a piece of lamb when we were well into toddlerhood and out of the BLW weaning stage.

Yeah, no, you're not going to get a daycare to agree to feed pieces of "soft shredded chicken" as a first food to a 5 month old baby. Not going to happen. You can do it on your own time. Maybe closer to 1 year old. Daycares are very good at moving kids up developmentally, particularly in ways that allow them to be more independent, so I don't really see the issue here. They'll naturally move your kid along to self-feeding, possibly faster than most parents would do on their own.

[Anonymous]

You would be hard-pressed to find a daycare that will cater to your individual style. You have to remember daycare is group care and group care means everybody's on the same schedule, format.