I’d like to introduce you to Brown Bear. This is BiP’s latest BLW friend. Since she turned 1 year old meal times have become somewhat of a challenge. I guess the excitement of discovering the world on foot has become more interesting. BiP no longer wears a bib and she is no longer harnessed in…
BiP is teething again – she seemed to get her first 6 teeth within 6 weeks of each other and then nothing for the last 7 months! Now she has another 6 fighting their way through. When her teeth are really bothering her she chooses not to eat anything at all which can be frustrating…
It’s recommended that you wait until your baby is at least 12 months old before introducing honey. At first this didn’t make much sense to me until I found out that it is because of the fear of Infant Botulism. Even products with honey in them aren’t considered to be suitable as the bacteria Clostridium botulinum…
With BiP fast approaching her first birthday I started to question when does Baby-Led Weaning stop being BLW and become just eating? My answer? It doesn’t. Not yet anyway. The reason why? There are milestones yet to reach! They still need to work out how to: Use a spoon, a fork, a knife and fork…
A few mother’s, I have spoken to about BLW, have admitted the reason they didn’t go for it was because of the challenge of BLW in a restaurant. I am the first to admit that having a BLW baby means that they aren’t going to sit nicely in their stroller whilst you enjoy your meal…
We have all realised by now that Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) is not completely radical but at the same time it’s not exactly mainstream. However, I have noticed that BLW means different things to different people. I’d like to know what it means to you! Is it just another way of feeding? Is it really that…
As soon as we started BLW I began to look at what we ate as a family. I must admit, as foodies, we had a pretty varied diet but it was somewhat repetitive. I was keen to ensure that my food preferences, or rather, my dislikes, did not influence BiP’s rapidly expanding palate. I found…
Ok, so we keep saying that BLW means your baby can eat everything you do but you may need to modify your meals to make them more BLW friendly and in turn give your baby a chance to really try everything. Here are my top 5 tips: Make sure your vegetables are long enough: When…
We are all talking about Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) but what is it? BLW is the gradual weaning from breast milk or formula to solids. The term “Baby-Led Weaning” was coined by Gill Rapley who admits there is nothing new about the concept. BLW expels the myth that babies must be spoon-fed purées and, instead, encourages…
I’m Ameena, first time mummy to BabyinProvence (BiP) who is an April 2010 baby. We live in the South of France but I’m not French. I don’t really know where I am from! I’m half English and half Egyptian, I was born in Dubai and I’ve lived all over the world. I guess I am…
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