Reply to Baby led weaning with daycare center?

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "Baby led weaning with daycare center?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=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.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics