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[milmoosmummy]

Hi, I'm pretty new here! So hi everyone i'm always reading on here yet shamefully never post!

Sorry to jump right in with an SOS, but I have to before I scream.

I'm a first time mum my baby girls 21 weeks old and my heads spinning on the whole weaning issue.
She is breastfed and is being very fussy about having a bottle and im due back at work september/october, this was originally planned sooner but thought due to the bottle problem (which im still perservering with) I would hold off until other food was better established.

If I wean earlier does this mean she will be better established with food?

My sister in laws given me a book thats a few years old (that she used for her 2 boys, 2 1/2 and 20 months) thats going on about dont leave it too late as baby can reject the chenge, start at 4 months which i know is different now.

My Mum is quite offended that I wont take her word as gospel on the matter (shes a little old school her eldest is 41 and we've had battles already in the past regardingthings like formula and breast feeding, dummies etc etc)
HV basically said its up to me as long as babies over 17 weeks...
My husbands very keen to feed her.
Shes not the biggest baby she was 12llb 9oz a couple of weeks ago.
I have given her a couple of spoonfuls but i have this doubt in my mind...

Basically how can things change so quickly nd dramatically in just a few years?
Am I alone in finding this casts doubts in my mind that its definitely right?
What should I do ?
my heads spinning with this! and feel like the clocks ticking!

Thanks in advance ladies!

[milmoosmummy]

oops sorry can tell im a newbie i forgot to title the thread!
Anyway I can do that now? lol

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Things haven't changed that dramatically Until May 2003, the UK advice was babies could start solids between 4 and 6 mths. Now it is clearer that the best health outcomes are seen if babies are exclusively bf until 6 mths.

The advice of 'four months' or '16 weeks' was not quite right, as there always was a window.

Not sure why you are fighting to give bottles, though - by the time you get back to work your baby will manage a cup quite nicely and may not need bottles at all.

If your baby is doing fine on breastmilk alone, I am not sure what the pressure is, either, apart from to keep your mum happy which is not actually in the official guidelines

Other people will be along, I think, with their ideas, and I hope this helps a bit

[meandmyflyingmachine]

IME weaning at 4 or 6 months makes no difference to how quickly they take to it. I weaned ds at 4 months and we had two months of purees beforemoving onto finger foods which was an absolute faff TBH. With dd I waited 'til around 7 months (meant to do it at 6 months but, well,forgot and it was so much simpler as you can go straight in with the finger food, mushed up ordinary food etc. And she took to it straight away. In fact it was she who reminded me that it was probably about time by grabbing a piece of bread and eating it...