Baby led weaning with daycare center?

[Anonymous]

I want to do baby led weaning, but I'm worried about getting pushback from daycare. Does anyone have experience here? Baby is in a center, not home-based.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on the center and the teacher. With my first, we were at a Bright Horizons downtown and had an amazing lead teacher in his class who wanted to learn about it and actually asked to borrow my BLW book so she could understand the concept. I also worked in the building so I would come down at lunch and "help." With my second, we had moved the kids to a Spanish-immersion daycare center by our home and because of the language barrier and because I couldn't "help" at lunch, we only did BLW at dinner at home and sent in purees and finger foods for school. With the second, I thought she would get more frustrated with BLW at dinner time since she was spoon-fed at daycare but it was fine. So I think it just really depends on the teacher and policies of the center - and of course, how comfortable you are with the teachers to make sure they react appropriately if your little one gags. My oldest is 4 years old now and they had not heard of BLW when I brought it up - but by the time we moved him to the new daycare 2 years ago, there were at least 2-3 kids that were doing BLW at that Bright Horizons. So I think if you're in a center, they may already have a policy or preference for BLW (I assume). Good Luck!

[Anonymous]

Thanks! My main issue is that we don't have dinner together, because DS wants to go to bed at 6, and we get home at 5:30. I'm sort of at a loss of how to start introducing solids on weekdays with this schedule. Daycare wants is to try everything at home first, but when?!

DS is 5.5 months now, so I need to figure it out. The times that we do eat together, he does try to grab stuff off my plate, but I am worried about choking because they aren't cut the right way.

[Anonymous]

You can always do both. When my baby started eating at 6 months, her bedtime pushed back to 7:30. We introduced a lot of foods on the weekends. Your baby might not want to do BLW either. At 9 months my baby finally has the coordination to put food in her mouth, but she just plays with the food on the tray instead of eating it. So we do a mixture of BLW, purees and then just putting chunks of food in her mouth.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

You have no idea what you are talking about. This has nothing to do with BM or bottles. Go do some research before you spout off like an idiot.

[Anonymous]

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.

You're off your rocker. We're talking about food here, not nursing...

[Anonymous]

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.

One, you have no idea what baby-led weaning is. Two, pull back on the bitter SAHM thing. It isn't a good look.

[Anonymous]

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.

Hahah oh man. Faillll by you.

Re: previous PPs: I thought it was important that you not mix purees and BLW, because it increases the choking risk?

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

No, you're not going to be able to do this because baby led weaning is a choking hazard, and no daycare is going to agree to give your infant large chunks of food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, just do it when you are together. Let daycare do purees. Much easier.

Feed your baby breakfast if you don't have time in the evening. They don't care about eating "dinner" foods in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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).