• Eating out with Vegetarian Babies in the Birmingham area

  These are my favourite places (obviously based around the Midlands, UK - at the moment!) I have order them simply by my favourites according to how accommodating they have been to my boys and myself on a regular basis.

• What is Baby-led Weaning?

  Baby-led Weaning means no more feeding your child and eating your food afterwards, it means sitting with your baby and eating the same food at the same time. It means thinking about your diet and adapting it to be baby-friendly and nutritious and the

• Equipment for Baby-led Weaning

  When I commenced on our blw journey I had no idea where to start. I feel that now (the boys are almost 4 months in) I have found the best solutions for us at. However, there was a lot of trial and error. You don't need any equipment at all, but some

• Veggie BLW Recipes

  These are tried and tested recipes of my own, adapted from my own vegetarian recipes that I have used for years. I always try to cook the same food as we eat, one of the principles and benefits of BLW is that you eat alongside the babies as you don't

I have been a vegetarian for half of my life - 20 years (I'm 40 now). I was vegetarian before becoming pregnant, during my pregnancy, while breast-feeding and throughout weaning my boys. They are healthy. I am healthy. In fact we are all more than healthy. I'm morally happy with my decision. I have never looked back. Children deserve to make their own choices when they are old enough to understand, and right now they are not old enough to understand or consent to taking another life for their own nourishment. If it sounds a bit hardcore for you then we're not reading the same book, let alone on the same page. I would love the whole world to be vegetarian for moral and ethical reasons, because it is healthier, and because meat-eaters put a huge drain on the resources of our planet. However, each to her own decision and conscience. When my boys are old enough to understand where meat comes from they are old enough to eat it - that's all.

Baby-led Weaning aka BLW is a method of weaning (introducing solid food to your baby). It is not new, lots of us were weaned this way many (many) years ago. However, in recent years due to (strange and possibly stupid) guidelines from health organisations the recommended weaning age was brought forward to a very young 4, or even 3 months. At this young age babies would choke on anything other than liquid or puree (hmmm - seems to me maybe they only need liquid at this age...) so purees were introduced. The baby food industry got involved and Bob's your uncle we all eat from little pre-packed jars. No, I know a lot of people make their own purees, I jest. Anyway, by about 6 months most babies would be eating some kind of finger food if not ALL finger food.

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What is Baby-led Weaning?