Am I being oversensitive : Weaning

[Mammie81]

MIL and partners family are all making comments because I havent weaned yet. My baby is only 4 months old and he cant hold his head steady for extended periods, so Im waiting. WHO still says 6 months AFAIK.

Comments include :
That baby needs some bread/I bet he wants a pasty/I think hes still hungry (after hes had his milk and is sleeping?!)/Ella's Kitchen make great things for kids his age/You CAN start from now you know
To baby - Would you like a chicken leg/I bet you are starving/Is mummy not feeding you

The baby is low percentile, so yes hes small but I fail to see how carrots are going to fatten him up more than calorie laden breastmilk designed for babies.

Am I being oversensitive? Is this just what families say to babies as baby talk?

BagofHolly, my DD had reflux. I weaned her at 4 months. I think it did help - she was never sick after a 'solid' meal but was being increasingly sick after milk. However we later discovered that she was dairy intolerant so it is hard to know how much of the difference was just because less milk meant less of the stuff she was intolerant of.

mammie "they'll attempt to offer the baby food" - seriously?!? That's outrageous! I don't mean to worry you, but this sounds like a level of interfering that will get worse and worse... All relatives "interfere" to some extent, but not to extremes. My mum kind of comments on getting started with weaning, but when I say he's in no hurry to start, she backs off.

Ds1 (6yo now) was a very hungry baby, and constantly needed fed, so at 20 weeks we attempted solids. He retched and gagged and cried! So all the well-meaning comments about how he was soooo ready for solids were bollocks! We tried again every few days. He wasn't interested till 24 weeks.

Peppa that's a really good point. I'm not in any hurry, btw, had just been curious about the latest studies. I agree that the baby will let us know when it's time :)

I had all that and my mum even got some baby rice in and tried it despite me saying he wasn't ready. He spat it out and I just said 'told you so!' she never tried after that. He quite happily grabbed food off my plate at just under 6 months and hasn't really stopped chomping since on anything we put in front of him and he is now 17 months old and everyone marvels at how well he eats and chews. Close you ears to them. You will know when you're baby is ready and so will your baby.