Less Mess

We’ve been doing BLW since we started solids around 6m. My daughter is 10m now and doing great! She has tried nearly 100 different foods and loves meal times.

I know that getting messy is all part of it, and I’m totally fine with letting her make a mess, but I’m curious when babies tend to stop getting quite SO messy during meals? I find myself spending 20-30 minutes cleaning up sometimes, and it’s tough! I tend to try to give her one not so messy meal per day to make it easier on myself (eg if she has yogurt for breakfast, which gets everywhere, then I’ll give her meatballs and veggies for lunch. Or if she has pancakes for breakfast, she’ll get something like lentil chili for lunch.) Between having to clean her hands, face, hair, smock, high chair, table, floor, and often the walls 😂, it’s a lot! She doesn’t throw food but she tends to wave her arms around because she’s excited, and with a fistful of yogurt that means carnage in the dining room.

We’re starting to add a third meal in now, and I just feel like I spend all day either preparing or cleaning up meals! I will do it for as long as it takes, I’m fully committed to the process, but I’m just wondering when it will get a little easier. Even if it’s years from now, I just want a light at the end of the tunnel 😂