One closing factor about BLW bananas: you would possibly discover I do NOT suggest the “banana lipstick”. The banana lipstick (…not its actual title, simply what it finally ends up trying like)…however it is a phenomenon you see on social media the place mother and father lower a banana in half retaining the peel on, then in the reduction of a small a part of the peel and provides the entire thing to the child.
Child smears the little a part of the banana that’s sticking up – therefore the “lipstick”.
Child finally ends up “holding on” to the banana no drawback, however then all however eats the banana peel. I don’t like this strategy as a result of, effectively, do YOU eat bananas with their peel on? No, we don’t eat the banana peel…so why would you train your child to principally attempt to just do that?
The peel is the place any potential pesticides from a banana dwell. It must be eliminated and never put in your child’s mouth.
There are safer methods to make slippery meals like banana spears simpler for infants to choose up. Listed below are a number of of my favorites: