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What is BLW and what is it eaten? About independence at the table

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By Marta DMar 9, 20220 comments

What is BLW? This is a method of expanding the diet with permanent foods, which respects the choice of a child and quickly leads to independence in food. Immediately serve snacks and snacks for grabbing with fingers, without a stage of mush. The shortcut BLW comes from the English "Baby-Led Weaning", which in Polish functions as a baby likes the choice (this name came from the title of the book Alaantkowe Bebe in the Mamania publishing house) or Bobas likes to throw away ... :). And they are eaten with fingers and special first cutlery.

Parents decide when a child eats, but a toddler what and how much. We listen to the child's voice and intuition, who regulates the amount of food. In this way, we do not interfere with the feeling of hunger, recognizing satiety and promote the development of a child's motor skills, learning about various flavors and consistency, which makes you introduce healthy eating habits. At the same time, the child chews and exercises his mouth, which facilitates the proper development of speech and speaking.

Minus? At the beginning it can be dirty;) But this will also be council, e.g. a guinea pig, which eats everything with appetite;) Also pay attention to whether the child consumes enough iron.

Safety rules at BLW

According to WHO, there are four pillars of diet expansion:

adequate time, or about 6 months of age,
adequate, that is, with adequate nutritional value,
safe, i.e. hygienic and well stored and
appropriately, i.e. in response to the child's signals with hunger and satiety, with the appropriate frequency in relation to the demand for energy and according to age.

BLW safety:

The child should be able to sit stable.
Never leave your child alone and without supervision. Do not go out of the room where the child eats. Watch and have them on your sight.
Eat together - the beginning of eating permanent foods by the child should be the moment when the toddler joins the rest of the family and shared meals.
First, feed your child with milk, and then after about 30-60 minutes, suggest a permanent meal so that it is not hungry or too full.
Cut the food into posts or very small pieces. It is important that the baby can easily grab them with his handle, so the cut, e.g. carrots in posts, banana slices also into pieces (it is important that they are oblong, because then they will not block the respiratory tract), small broccoli roses.
The food should be soft. The toddler cries the food by pressing them to the palate. Sometimes it can even be a bit of a mush or porridge, but in a form that is convenient for a child for independent food, i.e. in sticky lumps.
Avoid foods that crumble. Small pieces can break away and cause a risk of choking.
We serve one ingredient after you can immediately capture any allergies, e.g. we first introduce two potato boats, and after a few days two carrot posts or two teaspoons of carrot pulp on a teaspoon, which the child grabs, etc. If you feed the child from 4 months of age will be usefull Baby Spoon.
Watch the child and do not feed him with the BLW method when he is very hungry or tired. He must have strength for new impressions.
We start with green vegetables, because the process of their acceptance by the child is longer than acceptance of sweet taste. Start with broccoli or spinach.
Slowly introduce the fruit only after two weeks (at least) feeding vegetables and continue to serve vegetables.
You should serve various vegetables many times (up to 10-15 times). By acting in this way, you will speed up the stage in which the child will want to eat vegetables.
Do not add and do not sweeten the meals - you must not do it! Salt and sugar harm children, even in small quantities. Until the age of time, children should not consume salt and sugar at all, and it is best to keep this condition until the age of three.
Do not force a child to eat, this significantly reduces his ability to self -regulate, and thus recognizing hunger and satiety.
Give your child to drink clean water after 6 months of age or earlier if you feed them with modified milk.
Look at the floor so as not to slip on the remains of food;) A dog or other pet may be useful, which will eat falling leftovers on an ongoing basis :)

Potentially allergenic foods:

cow milk
chicken egg
wheat and soy
peanuts and other nuts
Fish and so -called seafood.
Serve them individually in tiny quantities at home and watch the child. However, do not delay their introduction to the diet, so start slowly along with other first solid foods in the second half of the child's life. When it comes to gluten, serve very small amounts of bread or wheat pasta (e.g. two drills at the beginning).

We also recommend this one Practical Medicine Portal Guide.

When to start expanding the diet and from when can you start using BLW?

We start as soon as the baby can sit stablely around six months of age.
According to WHO, the toddler should only drink milk for the first six months. However, Polish guidelines show that time to introduce solid foods is between the 17th and 24th week of the child's life. When to start a pediatrician. You should start introducing solid foods at the latest at the latest. Otherwise, deficiencies will occur and the infant will not develop properly.
In the sixth month of life, the demand for other food increases, because breast food no longer covers the whole demand (among others for iron, vitamin A, calories). From the sixth month of life, the nutritional gap has been growing and solid foods should be introduced.
You can start with BLW right away, but if it is necessary to expand your diet in the fifth month of life, then we serve slings and porridge. The order of food is the same.
Remember that at the beginning the child is playing with food, practices hand-accommodation coordination, tweezers, chewing and may not eat enough. That's why you can give some food on a hard spoon to make sure that they eat enough. You do not have to be orthodox, at the beginning one or two meals in the BLW style are enough with milk and feeding good mush.

What equipment is needed to expand the diet using the BLW method?

Number one High chair for childrenwhich we buy and add to the adult table. In this way, we include the child in shared meals. See great feeding chairs Oribel: Cocoon feeding chair and Skip Hop: SIT-to-Step High Chair feeding chair.

Bibs for a toddler or even a bib with sleeves, e.g. This Done by Deer brand. Eating at the beginning causes a lot of dirt, but this stage quickly leaves behind him. Silicone bib It will also be useful with the pocket.

Silicone table pad. On such a pad you can put a food directly or put it under a special plate for a child to clean it easier. We recommend, for example, Lassig: Silicone Mat Mouse Mouse Little Chums. A good patent is also a pad, which is also a plate to nibble: EZPZ: Silicone pad/ mini mat plate.

A plate with a suction cup, it can be three -tree to facilitate and make your toddler make it easier. We recommend Eco Rascals: Three -tree bamboo plate with a suction cup or slightly smaller, such as Eco Rascals: Bamboo plate with elephant suction cup or Eco Rascals: Bamboo bowl with a suction cup and a spoon. Later you can get to the take -out with We Might Be Tiny: Silicone bowl with suction cup and lid Bear Sticky Bowl.

A cup with a straw or a spout. For the first six months until the age of age, they will be a good education of independence. Look LIEWOOD: silicone mug with straw Ellis Sippy Cup and an open cup Done by Deer: Mini Mug silicone mug.

First cutlery, which help to practice a good grip and eat, for example, porridge. A rigid teaspoon for the first stage. The hard and stiff teaspoon is recommended as the first by speech therapists and pediatricians, because it generates the right stimulus for development. It should not bend under the tongue. Take a look here: Nana's Manners: The first teaspoons of Weaning SPOONS STAGE 1. Here you will find cutlery for the second stage Nana's Manners: The first cutlery shaping the correct Fork and Spoon grip stage 2, Nana's Manners: Cutlery shaping the correct Knife and Fork Stage 3 grip. also check B.Box: Silicone bowl with suction cup and spoon Silicone First Feeding Set.

All useful Eating accessories And you will find drinking in our store. And that's all! Simple, right?

B.Box: The first cutlery to learn to eat Toddler Cutlery Set Gelato

The order of administration of infant foods

We definitely start with vegetables. They are easily digestible and less sweet than fruit, so the child should first get used to the taste of vegetables. The supply of iron is also very important, and vegetables contain more than fruit. From the 17th week of life, the child can eat slurry, e.g. apple puree, but it is better to get the child used to the pumpkin and potato. There is no established order except certain rules about what can and can not be given before one month of life.

Stage (6-8 months): unfriendly vegetables, i.e. potato, pumpkin, parsley root, peas, thick porridge, porridge, and after the initial stage carrots, sweet potato (yellow, contains a lot of vitamin A), spinach. Add half a teaspoon of butter or some olive oil or rapeseed oil. A little later later crushed foods from the family table. Groats and pasta boiled for sticky. Subsequently, the boiled egg chicken once or twice a week.
Stage: Soft small pieces of fruit served in hand or on a plate for blw, so that the child can catch them, e.g. banana slices. Tomato slices (without skin) will also be important, even though the child later accepts the sour taste than sweet. At this stage, you can also serve zucchini, squash, broccoli.
Meat also from 6 months of age (poultry, beef, rabbit), but better after introducing vegetables. If you serve meat, sea, free -living, i.e. not breeding fish are very important. Meat in an amount of 10 grams, cooked by itself or cooked with vegetables. You can also steam meat and vegetables. Do not give fish in which the meat is high concentration of mercury and other poisonous substances, e.g. never tuna, swordfish, etc.
Gluten can be safely introduced into the diet from the five to 12 months of age of the child. Start with tiny porcons, i.e. one tenth of a slice of bread.
For seventh. and the eighth month of life: apple puree with blueberries, crushed vegetables and fruits, chopped or raw grated, fruits and vegetables, eggs, cereal and bread, natural yogurt, kefir, cooked semolina, porridge, couscous, rice pasta, onions, barley, leek and egg (whole). Slowly beetroot, kohlrabi, peach, asparagus beans, e.g. in soup with potatoes. You can slowly introduce spices and herbs. Start with ¼ teaspoon at once. The preferred herbs are at the beginning: dill, parsley parsley, basil. You can also serve non -smoked buckwheat, garlic, radish, peppers, patison, parsnip, sesame seed, amaranth, mango, tofu, goat cheese (little) and asparagus. Blueberries, cherries, berries and currants also from fruit. Berry fruit crush or crush because they are not safe. Cut the grapes lengthwise. Also, the spicy taste can be slowly introduced, i.e. we add ginger or garlic to the diet. In addition, celery, pumpkin seeds, lentils, apricots, almonds (flakes well crushed).
From 11 months of age: pear, plum, so fruit with more fructose.
Fats - only butter, ghee (specially clarified butter), olive oil and rapeseed oil. It's best to stick to these good fats until the child is three years old. Avocado can be administered in advance.
After graduating from the first year of life – Honey (may contain harmful bacteria), cow's milk as the main milk (unless you are still breastfeeding). Do not give goat or sheep's milk at all, because it limits the absorption of iron. Also serve only cooked eggs. Do not give anything fried for a long time.