Weaning tends to be described as being either Baby Led (BLW) or traditional weaning. Tidy Tot’s unique design makes it an essential bit of kit, however you choose to do it. What approach is right for me? UK Government guidelines suggest waiting until 6 months before introducing solid foods, and some useful advice can be found on the NHS website. We suggest doing your homework first so you feel fully prepared for the exciting journey ahead! What is Baby Led Weaning? Baby Led Weaning (BLW) means instead of introducing food in the form of purees and weaning spoons, your baby simply feeds himself. Whilst all babies are different, parents who follow baby led weaning tend to find that their baby can cope with a variety of different textures right from the off and are happier to try new foods very early on. However, even the most passionate of BLW fans agree that it is a very messy business, involves a lot of wasted food in the early days and it can be difficult to know how much food your baby has actually eaten.

Tidy Tot's unique design completley eliminates this problem. "The Tidy Tot is a really innovative idea for containing the inevitable mess that happens when babies feed themselves.  I defy any baby wearing the Tidy Tot to sweep food on to the floor or get it down inside his or her highchair!"  Gill Rapley, co-author of Baby-Led Weaning, Helping your baby to love good food. If you're keen to learn more about BLW, there are a wealth of resources available to you which offer advice, support and great family friendly recipes ideas, ideal for this method of weaning.  We're not advocating one resource over another here but have provided you with a list of websites to look at to learn more! Baby Led Weaning Cookbook And if I don’t follow BLW? Traditional weaning involves pureeing and mashing foods to make it a little easier for babies to swallow.  Making your own purees is really easy to do and it means you know exactly what your baby is eating.  It’s often much cheaper than buying pureed ‘baby food’ from the supermarket, although these are perfect for the days you don’t have time to cook, are eating out (many places won’t heat up home cooked foods for your baby) or want to try your baby with something new.

With traditional weaning, finger foods tend to be introduced around 7 months old.  From here, a combination of finger-foods and purees are used to introduce baby to a wide variety of tastes and textures. Whatever your approach to weaning, Tidy Tot provides the perfect platform for your baby to really enjoy learning about food.argos office chairs irelandI think we can all agree that when you are pregnant, you spend a lot of time researching and Googling, trying to find out what you need, what labour will be like and all the big milestones your baby will reach. table and chair rental flint miOne of those milestones is starting to eat, no longer relying just on milk but instead delving into a world of tastes, flavours and textures.used high chairs harrogate

After looking into Baby Led Weaning, how it worked and ultimately, why it is recommended as the way to wean your baby, I knew it was for us. The idea of purees went completely out of the window and I was excited to try something which seems relatively new, although has actually been the recommended weaning approach for many years.chair covers hire inverness I think we should start things off by saying that as in any instance, i. table and chair rentals burnabyIf that is puree, great - that is your choice and right as a mother to make that decision for your baby.muskoka chairs for sale ottawa (or after, although 6 months is the ideal time)best highchair for baby led weaning

Baby Led Weaning is the recommended method of weaning (the World Health Organisation)(Irritable Bowel Syndrome) why "Well it was OK for me to have puree as a baby and my parents before me, I'm fine!". My baby looks ready for food, should I wean early?wheelchair van rentals arizona "Food is just for fun for the first year".rio beach chairs walmart "But s/he was desperate for food!". Now something very important to consider here is that some babies are recommended to wean earlier than 6 months, using the traditional puree method of weaning, for health reasons. If you have been recommended by your family GP to wean early for the benefit of your baby; for example a baby who has milk allergies and does not receive the full benefits from milk feeding, a baby who has struggled to gain weight or a baby who has been unwell for any reason and would benefit from early weaning, then you should wholeheartedly follow the advice of your GP.

Recommendations do not always work for everyone and your babies health is the absolute top priority, at any stage in life; this is why health professionals weigh up the pros and cons and advise that some babies are given puree food earlier than 6 months, for health benefits. Why did we choose Baby Led Weaning? We've had people worry that Willow will choke - this is another common worry among parents I have spoken to and why many parents opt to wean early with purees. However a baby can choke on absolutely anything, at any age, and it has actually been shown that BLW babies have less chance of choking, because they learn to eat food differently to those on puree. They learn to chomp, bite, chew and swallow, whereas puree weaned babies simply learn to swallow. Another worry people have shown is whether Willow will get enough food, because we are not physically putting food in her mouth and making her eat it. As I mentioned earlier, for the first year food really is just for fun;

exploring, tasting, smelling, learning, so it doesn't matter if she eats a certain amount and it certainly isn't necessary. Of course there are a few benefits from BLW which make our lives easier, although for us it was certainly the health, developmental and physical benefits of BLW which swayed our decision. We don't have to buy ready-made food for Willow or fuss around with making purees. We don't have to spoon feed her, which means meal times don't take forever and she can sit at the table with us eating normally. We don't have to worry about heating up purees when out but instead giving her food straight from our plates or something from the kids menu. BLW is ultimately a much messier way to wean. Instead of you having control over what your baby eats, they have all the control and so food can end anywhere and everywhere. We have a cheap shower curtain underneath our Cosatto Noodle Supa Highchair which protects our floor and also makes cleaning quicker and easier. We've been doing BLW weaning now for almost 2 weeks, starting on the day Willow turned 6 months old.