I'm breastfeeding my 4 month old dd3 and she's thriving and 3 weeks ago weighed 14.6lb. I'm imagining she's now hit 15lb (weighing her tomorrow!). She used to sleep quite well, wake about every 4 hours for a feed and sleep in the day. However, during the past few weeks she is waking so much more (sometimes 4 or 5 times in the night) and doesn't sleep for more than 45 mins in the day.
My other children are slightly older at 5 and 8 and the advice when they were young was to wean at 4 months, which I did with no allergies, etc.
I think my dd3 is ready for food, she looks at me when I eat and the sleeping (to me) also indicates she's ready. BUT she has slight excema (as I did as a child and as her sister, aged 5, has slightly too). So, should I start solids? I would go very slowly, baby rice for about a week, then introduce a fruit for 3-5 days, then a vegetable, etc.
My gut instinct is to start but I know the advice now is 6 months, just would really like to know what you are all doing???
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Janus · 16/09/2008 22:11
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