My daughter Ava (3yrs old) was 100% #babyledweaned she inspired me to share her journey of baby Led Weaning to the world to inspire and to encourage others out there that there are other options to start solids rather than spoon feeding purée and parent baby control. Anyway…. from day 1 of Ava’s solids journey I have trusted she makes most her decisions about food…. a lot of people ask me
“What if she doesn’t eat dinner?!”
“Do I Offer something else?”
“Do I give her dessert?”
Ok here is a prime example tonight what I do…. Ava isn’t feeling the best today and she didn’t want to eat dinner tonight at all, she said she wasn’t hungry, all she wanted was water… this usually happens to Ava when she isn’t feeling her normal self or if she has had lots of snacks throughout the day… how I reacted? I don’t make a fuss, i don’t offer any other foods or supplements or milk, I simply put her dinner in a container and save it for tomorrow (for me or her)…. tonight I got her down from her chair and bathed her and put her into bed, yes on a empty tummy.
It is important for Ava to listen to her body and to understand and “feel” her limits about food control.
I trust if she ever asks for more food, she can have more food
I trust if she doesn’t want to eat dinner – that is OK
We are not going to get angry or try and persuade or encourage her to eat if her body is doing such a great job at regulating her food intake. It is OK for her to go to bed on a empty tummy, this is the way Ava will learn about “what empty or what full feels like” …
Baby Led Weaning teaches a lot of life lessons, it’s not all ‘glits and glamour’ and your toddler is not going to eat every meal you put in front her…. it’s more about teaching the importance of “trust”, trust our our babies and toddlers can make decisions about foods and control their intake…. learn to have a positive relationship with food and meal times… teach our babes and toddlers that foods have different textures and comes in different forms: foods can be sweet, savoury, crunchy, smooth, salty, sour etc “food gives energy to fuel our body”
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