Baby Led Weaning Cookbook - aka Natalie Peall

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I have a child that had huge issues with his pincer grip and was told that it would be developed by giving him things to pick up that required it! I was actively encouraged to give him peas etc that he needed the pincer for!

Before he developed the pincer he still managed to eat with his hands and a spoon fine so I’m not really sure why you would change how you cut food because of pincer grip………I feel like she’s very misinformed!
 
bexxy12345 said:
I have a child that had huge issues with his pincer grip and was told that it would be developed by giving him things to pick up that required it! I was actively encouraged to give him peas etc that he needed the pincer for!

Before he developed the pincer he still managed to eat with his hands and a spoon fine so I’m not really sure why you would change how you cut food because of pincer grip………I feel like she’s very misinformed!
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Excuse me, she is the leading BLW expert!
 
Tbh we lay down with our eldest too who is older than Belle - so can’t judge there. After all day out at work it’s part of our bonding time after a busy day, to flick through a video (my bad, shoot me) or stay with him after his reading book until he dozes off happy. He knows we leave the room, and sleeps well but it’s comforting for him that we are there.

she’s continually listing things she starting, shouldnt she concentrate on things she’s already launched. Everything is always slap dash. The podcast is dying a death. She’s doing it for the sake of saying she has a podcast but with no guests, when will it end?
 
Treesy19 said:
Tbh we lay down with our eldest too who is older than Belle - so can’t judge there. After all day out at work it’s part of our bonding time after a busy day, to flick through a video (my bad, shoot me) or stay with him after his reading book until he dozes off happy. He knows we leave the room, and sleeps well but it’s comforting for him that we are there.

she’s continually listing things she starting, shouldnt she concentrate on things she’s already launched. Everything is always slap dash. The podcast is dying a death. She’s doing it for the sake of saying she has a podcast but with no guests, when will it end?
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Apologies, I totally wasn’t meaning to offend. I too use bedtime as bonding time with my eldest and we have a snuggle or a chat / look at things she finds interesting (tonight she wants to watch a video of the Queen’s coronation as they talked about it at school) - I often stay up there until she’s sleepy / dozing off. But if I had 2 other screaming children and a husband who’d been working all day having to try and sort them whilst I was lying around with my older child it would be a different matter. It’s like - what Belle wants, Belle gets - and there doesn’t seem to be much in helping to grow up a bit but that’s a different matter - and then Steve and the twins are left to sort themselves out plus the rest of the housework as well 🤷‍♀️
 
Treesy19 said:
Tbh we lay down with our eldest too who is older than Belle - so can’t judge there. After all day out at work it’s part of our bonding time after a busy day, to flick through a video (my bad, shoot me) or stay with him after his reading book until he dozes off happy. He knows we leave the room, and sleeps well but it’s comforting for him that we are there.

she’s continually listing things she starting, shouldnt she concentrate on things she’s already launched. Everything is always slap dash. The podcast is dying a death. She’s doing it for the sake of saying she has a podcast but with no guests, when will it end?
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Has she mentioned her podcast on stories? She seems to have completely removed it. I can’t watch her face so don’t watch her stories mostly 😆
 
Sure. name changed said:
Has she mentioned her podcast on stories? She seems to have completely removed it. I can’t watch her face so don’t watch her stories mostly 😆
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Nope. It’s like it’s disappeared into thin air….
So now we will be treated to a new TikTok account (and some other channel, can’t remember which and not going back to listen again!), which will be her sharing her 5 min marketing tips. If it does well, then she’ll create a proper marketing course …
 
bexxy12345 said:
Korma for tea tonight………..again!
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And served on a toddler plate with toddler cutlery at a toddler table, why is she not eating at their kitchen diner area and on bloody normal plates and with either smaller metal cutlery or just the same as the adult set. I swear she just can’t face the fact that Belle is no longer a pre schooler!
 
whatAstar said:
And served on a toddler plate with toddler cutlery at a toddler table, why is she not eating at their kitchen diner area and on bloody normal plates and with either smaller metal cutlery or just the same as the adult set. I swear she just can’t face the fact that Belle is no longer a pre schooler!
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Because there she can't be plonked in front of the TV....she has no manners, my two year old eats 100 times better Than her
 
FannyAdams29 said:
I know it’s not mumsnet but should a baby led weaning ‘expert’ be advocating for kids eating their dinner in front of the tv?
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She goes down the route of ‘real’ life, my life is crazy because I work and have kids and ‘you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do’ but those 2 yo should not be staring at a screen each time they eat - that is why they might be eating so much porridge. They simply do not even realise they’ve eaten as their brains are preoccupied with screen time.
 
She’s so awkward 🤨
When will she figure out this isn’t work and isn’t contributing to her getting paid?! Its such a waste of time!
you can’t say you’re busy when this is what you’ve spent all day doing😖
Clean your house! Get an actual job! Realise what hard work really is!


and pleaaaaaaaaaase do something with A’s hair so she stops getting food in it when she eats🤮
 

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I’ve just seen her sponsored post about making banana toast. That’s the sort of stuff that I’d be more interested in on her normal insta, less of her face and more of actual reels of cooking different meals or snacks.
 
“It’s such hard work making reels”

Really?!!!!!!

Did you see the troll story, I wouldn’t put it past her to make that account herself just so she can claim she’s been trolled!

The advice she has given restarting food throwing is an absolute joke…….try eating in a different room???!!!!! No children should be eating at the table, they shouldn’t get to move because they lob food around!

Not everyone is privileged enough to have multiple rooms suitable for eating in.

To be honest seeing her daughters horrific table manners and the lack of variety she feeds the children on her stories I don’t think she is qualified to be giving advice that she hasn’t even made work with her own children.

The “I hope Annabelle’s school doesn’t get closed I’ve got to much to do” story but still time to waste time filming very light snow drivelling on about not having time actually pissed me off……she literally needs to get in the real world!
 
bexxy12345 said:
“It’s such hard work making reels”

Really?!!!!!!

Did you see the troll story, I wouldn’t put it past her to make that account herself just so she can claim she’s been trolled!

The advice she has given restarting food throwing is an absolute joke…….try eating in a different room???!!!!! No children should be eating at the table, they shouldn’t get to move because they lob food around!

Not everyone is privileged enough to have multiple rooms suitable for eating in.

To be honest seeing her daughters horrific table manners and the lack of variety she feeds the children on her stories I don’t think she is qualified to be giving advice that she hasn’t even made work with her own children.

The “I hope Annabelle’s school doesn’t get closed I’ve got to much to do” story but still time to waste time filming very light snow drivelling on about not having time actually pissed me off……she literally needs to get in the real world!
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All of this! I’ve never found her overly relatable but her content was helpful in terms of recipes, recommendations etc. now…all I see is someone who is desperate to be an ‘influencer’ so she can say it’s her job, will stop at no amounts of different avenues to make it work (but none really seem to work at all), whilst trying to flog expensive clothing that goes against everything the O&A brand was meant to be about. She doesn’t seem to acknowledge that none of her kids are young babies anymore and tries to be relatable by continually saying how hard parenting is whilst packing them off wherever possible so she can record reels that she doesn’t even want to do. Or podcasts that don’t engage. Or the latest - TikTok videos. BLW courses. Marketing courses. Where does it end - I’m tired even writing all of that down!

I think she’s been out of employed work so long she wouldn’t really know where to start, with no recent references it would be hard to start anywhere in a higher position and honestly I think she would see taking a lower position as beneath her. But at some point she’s going to have to realise that what she’s doing now isn’t hitting the spot 🤷‍♀️
 
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