Anonymous wrote: 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.

Are you a SAHM or do you actually send your kid to a daycare? My daycare does cater to my baby's needs. She's picky about food and gets what she wants to eat. All the babies are eating different foods. My baby likes to eat pouches the most. She likes to suck them down in 2 minutes. She doesn't let a spoon near her mouth though.

From my POV the sooner child can get the food into their own mouth the better.
If I think something might be a choking hazard I will not give it to the child. I do not care what the parents want. They can do it on their own time or hire a nanny. Most of the parents I have worked with might be considered overly cautious on this front, so it's never been much of an issue. All of the babies have been well fed, happy, and messy.

I used to be an infant teacher and a center director, and encouraging self-feeding with soft chunks is absolutely par for the course. It might not be known as BLW by everyone. With my own son, we just said, "offer him whatever you're serving for the day and see what he does."

Anonymous wrote: 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.

I just haven't found this to be true. At least at our daycare, each infant teacher has 3 infants. They can't physically feed 3 infants at the same time. So one teacher sits two infants in the low to the ground "high" chairs with the little tables and puts the food out/spoon feeds/whatever depending on what the parents sent in for the kids. So my kid might have bananas and chicken while the baby sitting next to him has puffs and sweet potatoes. The other kids are napping and or playing with the other teacher. There was no schedule in the infant room, the babies napped on demand and ate at around the times the parents indicated on the daily sheets dependent on the baby being awake at the right time.

Now, the toddler room and up are definitely schedule oriented.

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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.

Well, I didn't start solids with either of my kids until 6 months and meat wasn't a first food anyway. By the time we got to meats around 7/8 months, yes, my daycare absolutely fed my child the soft shredded chicken I sent in, along with the pulled pork, sausage, etc. My second child is a carnivore through and through and would eat meat to the exclusion of all other food if I let him. I've also had 2 daycare kids so I am well familiar with them moving kids along, I fully credit the daycare with my first being toilet trained at 2 and have high hopes that my second will follow suit in a month or two as he nears 2.