AIBU?
to think baby weaning seems odd.
ghostspirit · 15/08/2015 15:50
baby weaning used to start at 3 months. would start of with very basic baby rice. then would start adding new flavours tectures etc could take time doing it all was good...now from what HV says its start at 6 months and they say to intruduce lumps/flavours rather fast its like theres a rush i would have thought it a bit odd to rush them.
coconutpie · 15/08/2015 15:57
YABU. Research has shown that introducing solids before 6mo is completely unnecessary. Waiting til 6mo means the baby gets all their nourishment from milk and their gut has developed enough to handle solid food.
Also waiting til 6mo (approx, for some babies it can be 7mo before they are ready) means you can skip the puréed mush and go straight to finger foods. I did BLW with my baby and just offered finger foods as a compliment to breastmilk rather than substituting. It's worked out great. I sure as heck wouldn't like to eat that baby rice crap (which has zero nutritional value so is completely unnecessary) or any meat puréed (yuck) so why should baby if they are ready for finger foods.
ghostspirit · 15/08/2015 16:02
53 i dont thinks if it was me i would be taking my time doing it very slowly even if baby was only having a couple spoon fulls a day. and then when hes happy with that add a new flavour/texture just doing it over a longer period of time rather than shorter..thats how i see it anyway
CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 15/08/2015 16:04
I just don't get the angst and hand wringing about weaning... Do what is right for you, your baby and your family. Jars are not poison any more than formula is poison. Baby rice isn't for everyone (though it's a useful thickener for frozen, re-heated meals that have gone a bit runny). Some babies will be ready at 4 months, some ready at 8 months, some even later. Some will go straight to finger foods, some will eat purees off a spoon, some will do a mixture. Etc etc etc...
ghostspirit · 15/08/2015 16:07
sorry i should not have just said baby rice...anything really thats soft/smooth when they are little...i just dont think the lumps should be rushed..unless baby is happy.
thinking about it i dont think there is a wrong or right. i think its ok if baby is weaned before 6 month if baby seems ready and 6 months is ok to...its just the rush once they hit 6 months that i dont like...but then i guess it depends on the baby as well
ElderlyKoreanLady · 15/08/2015 16:09
YABU. I don't personally understand why so many people wean their children on flavourless, textureless slop that an adult wouldn't eat. I hear so many people claiming it's so that the baby learns to swallow solids. But the fact is that if a baby needs practice swallowing even the softest solids, they're not ready to be weaned.
howabout · 15/08/2015 16:11
BLW is so much easier. By the time they are 6 months they are practically pinching your dinner off your plate - or in my case sucking at pieces of fruit while sitting on my knee. No need to make separate meals and faff about with fitting in milk / sleep / solids routine. Just sit them with you at your mealtimes and see what you are having that fits with where they are.
Also no need to rush as up to a year most actual nutrition is still coming from milk.
ThisIsClemFandango · 15/08/2015 16:11
I personally don't see the point in puréeing everything. For me it made a lot more sense to wait until DS was around 6 months and could pick up his own food and feed himself. Weaning is such a faff whichever way you do it so I didn't want to start early. He had pretty much everything we eat from the beginning and never had an upset tummy so no need to take it slowly imo
It's your baby though so do what you like. You're not breaking the law by weaning early!
But bear in mind NHS recommends that you definitely don't start before 17 weeks, it can do more harm than good starting that early.
RedToothBrush · 15/08/2015 16:12
Feline9 Sat 15-Aug-15 15:57:52
I don't like baby led weaning, I think it's gross to see kids throwing food and rubbing it on their faces.
Bully for you. I didn't exactly get a lot of choice about whether to BLW or not. DS decided for us.
Perhaps you can have a word with my son, who point blank refused spoon feeding and would only eat finger food from the word go. Of course he wasn't very good at it which meant he wasn't eating much solids.
He has eventually got spoons, but now is refusing to let me feed him and is trying to do it himself which would be fine except at 11 and a half months doesn't have the control to do it well enough to feed himself properly yet.
Its an ongoing battle. Any tips on how to force feed a baby would be much appreciated.
Please do have a 
from me and my son. He's pretty good at eating those. Typical huh?
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