to think Eastenders have really entered the realms of utter bollox now.

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Apparently baby Tommy/James 'likes mashed bananas the best'

HE IS NOT EVEN 4 SODDING MONTHS OLD YOU BLITHERING IDIOTS.

DO the not know of current weaning guidelines??????

And rather tahn getting formula from Fat Elvis why do they not just pop into Tesco like the rest of us?

amothersplace, wasn't he born at Xmas? So not only is he not five months, he's not even 4 months yet..

OMg what a mad OP

The current weaning guidelines are shit 20 years ago you weaned at 12 to 16 weeks. You wean a baby when an 8oz bottle is no longer sufficient over 3 to 4 hour feeds.

This six month weaning lark is bollocks, next they come up with some other utter bollox that comes from more research.

Mashed banana at 16 weeks is perfectly acceptable, it is not so much the age of the baby but moreso the weight and what they need.

I just don't get how my eight kids (born 1990 - 2002) are still here and fully functioning, because I gave them all a bit of banana at about 3 - 4 months.

The advice hasn't and won't change based on the study from this year because it was nothing new, highly flawed and biased. No one who matters have taken it seriously, the press don't matter nor do the idiots who believe the press without reading it for themselves and tell everyone the guidelines changed.

Btw, pre-WWII weaning was done at 9-12 months it was only with the first mass produced formula that couldn't sustain a baby for that long that puree and early weaning were popularised. There were no studies, just do what we do. Those took a few more years to come and when they did they set the age at 4 months which with better science and more advanced studies we've had the age moved to 6 months.

However did we cope 100 years ago without mashed banana? However is my daughter still here not having solids until she was a year old and almost exclusively breastfed until 22 months?

I'm avoiding the actual topic of the farce, lies and insults. MrsD summed it up well!

Well at 3-4 months of age at least 3 of my babies grabbed food out my hand and 'ate' it. This is baby lead weaning then is it? Should I have said " no baby, don't you know you've got to wait another 3 months before you can have this or the nazi weaning brigade will tie you down and force feed you milk"
You know time ill come when they say that waiting 'till 6 months was dangerous nutritionally for the baby. What will all the nazi weaning brigade do then eh?
They'll probably be on some other campaign designed to undermine common sense and individual differences and be moaning about tv soap operas.

Nazi weaning brigade...

Oh do fuck off.

I wasn't worried about the mashed banana-it was what he said after that which worried me "chopped apple" WTF how could a 3 month old eat chopped apple???

Mine are 17 and 20 and the advice then was to wean between 3-6 months. There was no advice against meat until 6 months, no honey, no gluten etc etc. Both are strong healthy girls without an allergy between them.

I imagine when I am a GP I will be saying "Well they didn't say that kind of thing in my day" I expect they will both be on MN complaining about me

ha ha ha agree with royal bling, SOOOOO MUMSNET

"These guidelines change all the time."

I might just get 'no they don't' tattooed on my forehead.

So the current advice for breastfeeding is to offer solids just before 6 months whilst continuing to feed

Whats the advice for ff babies?

*continuing to breastfeed

the current advice is to wean at 6 months. No earlier than 17 weeks I think. Same for if you FF.

Weaning is weaning, I don't think it matters if you have ff or bf.

nhs guidelines

So is the advise to wean between 17 weeks and 6 months, or to wean at 6 months?

I see both written on MN and there is a huge difference between the two bits of advice.

my son had mashed banana at that, though that was in 2001 before the internet

people really do get wound up by odd things

Sorry Dueling have just looked at your link, it says around six months.

We fully weaned DD at 4.5 months. You know why? Because she was fucking starving...... bollocks to the guidelines

entered?

I actually agree with you Threaders. Surely every baby will develop at their own pace-some can walk at 9 months others at over 12 etc etc, so how can they say every baby should be weaned at 6 months?