Hi all
DD is 18 weeks and breastfed. She is my first baby so I don't really know what I'm doing with regard to weaning - I have read a lot on here about baby-led weaning but I live in Australia and nobody I have mentioned it to here seems to have heard of it.
I am in a parenting group (kind of like NCT group?) with 8 other mothers. Every other mum in the group has started solids at 4 months and I'm receiving a lot of pressure to do the same, especially as she isn't sleeping well.
I spoke to my child health nurse and she said to start DD on baby rice. She said I could do it now. I asked about whether I should wait until 6 months and she said it was fine to do that but that if you wait until 6 months you have to do everything very quickly e.g. go from purees to lumps to finger food, making sure she has meat for iron etc whereas if I start now I can get her used to food slowly. On the other hand, I've seen people on here say 'food before one is just for fun'... in which case why would I be rushing her into different foods if I start her at 6 months?
Can I start at 6 months and do a mixture of purees and baby led weaning? Is there anyone on here from Australia who can shed light on whether this is just a case of different countries having different ideas about things?
Thanks!
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Weaning at 18 weeks?
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User24689 · 22/12/2015 12:21
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