What is/was your baby doing at 14 weeks old? Is mine quite advanced?

[BabyGenius]

I'll get hung drawn and quartered for saying this, but mine eats food- feeds himself with a spoon as long as I put the food on the spoon for him. His favourite food is banana, he loved it and cries when it's all gone and refuses his bottle for it sometimes. He feeds himself 'finger foods' (only very basic things at the moment).

He laughs.

He laughs at ceebeebies when the characters or presenters laugh.

When I say 'dada' he says 'ah-ah'. When I make gurgle noises he copies me. When I squeel he squeels and then laughs.

He sits up by himself.

He loves anything colourful.

He laughs his head off when anyone says 'boo'.

He sleeps 11 hours at night.

He holds his own bottle.

He wants to stand up allllllllll the time, he's very strong.

If you say 'kiss' he opens his moth for a kiss, and 'cuddle' he puts his hands either side of his neck. And if you say 'kiss baby' he opens his mouth to kiss his newborn cousin.

And loads of other stuff.

He just seems really advanced to me. Do all babies do these things by 14 and a half weeks old?

I gathered that babygenuis. I can't somehow picture a 14 week old standing up on their own!

If this is a genuine thread then yes it's great when your baby does new things isn't it!

However, 14 weeks is WAY too early to be feeding banana - assuming you started with baby rice at least a week ago, then you could really be affecting his digestive system going forward.

Even if the GP recommended it (would be amazed if he/she really started weaning their child at 11 weeks), I would read up some more before expaning his diet any further.

eph- HV is quite old actually. She's been good in other respects though. She prescribed him aqueois (sp?) cream for his exzma and it's worked wonders. She's really nice and she said she doesn't believe in the new 6 month rule. She advised my friend the same.

ycbs, your HV cannot read her own guidelines... that is a worry i'd have thought.

they say, for the record, wean at 26 weeks and certainly not before 16 weeks. i realise that seems to be saying two things at once, but basically it appears to be because so many parents still want to give food earlier than is safe so they've got that 16 week limit on. between 16 and 26 weeks the jury is a wee bit more out, although 26 is much preferable.

but prior to 16 there is possible kidney damage. i'd be particularly worried at that age if the child was refusing milk and favouring solids.

babygenius, your child sounds advanced on a number of fronts, i'd be concerned about teh eating and the weight bearing as neither are healthy for him at such a young age.

Sorry for the spelling mistakes. Clearly I wasn't doing any of those things at 14 weeks!

Cor, my baby is rubbish compared to yours. All he does is lie around in his babygro with a little dribble of sick running from the corner of his mouth into his ear.

Domperidone, gaviscon, ranitidine and Wysoy. They said there used to be one that covered all of these but it got banned so nowadays they prescribe these and recommend early weaning.

I'd try anything to stop the reflux in all honesty. It worried me sick and caused him to choke so badly in the night he didn't breathe for a minute and a half.

Seriously, I would complain loudly about your hv. It's not up to her to decide she knows better than her own profession.

Well the OP is BabyGenius's first post.

That is a very good indication of a troll.

my ds had severe relflux, we were never advised to wean early just give milk little and often (every hour) We also had to keep him upright at all times. Hes now developmentally behind all of his peers i think due to not being allowed to lie down. Even after weaning it took till 11 months to stop being sick. i can kind of understand though why you weaned early if this has stopped the reflux as this was the most miserable and knackering time for us, i really did not enjoy the first year of his life.

It's not a troll for goodness sakes. Not everyone who says something the majority don't agree with is a troll.

Pah mine played bagpipes at 10weeks, chess at 12wk

Your were advised to feed little and often? I asked the consultant if that would help and he said no! I feel cheated. I would rather have done that when he was really bad as pretty much his whole bottle was coming up every feed, it was a nightmare.

Baby Genius yes he does sound unusually advanced. Does he sleep much in the day?

My eldest DD was very similar, she was sitting up, had a huge appetite slept through the night and lots of laughing and smiling and babbling as well. The thing is although she slept through the night she rarely slept in the day and part of me thinks this can account a little bit for how advanced she was. She was just awake a lot more than normal babies and so had more time to take things in, respond and learn.

Because she babbled from such a young age she was also a really early talker putting 2 words together at 10 months. She is now 8 and still very clever but not a 'genius' she was just simply advanced at that age. But as a word of warning as she was the first in my post natal group to do everything they the other mums all got mightily pissed off by it. Other people are not necessarily as pleased as we are when they are advanced. I felt it was really mean as I would genuinely be pleased for them when 'X' walked, smiled talked etc but am guessing they thought it was overshadowed by my DD doing those things months earlier and never reciprocated. Just because they do things early why can't we be proud?

But I think unless you want to come across as a show off it's best to keep the achievements for your real friends and family who will be thrilled. Also you can talk to the health visitors who will often share in your amazement a bit as they see so many children so can honestly tell you if they are advanced and as mine did made notes in my book not sure what good they ever did but I guess they are there in black and white to look back on.

Good luck and enjoy him, you obviously are and that is the main thing.

riven- Is that true?? My GP prescribed that, not the hospital. I'm not happy about that at all. I asked if there was any kind of milk which could make it better and she said Wysoy and prescribed it. Although he has actually been a LITTLE better on the Wysoy than his old milk.

This stinks of troll.

If I'm wrong, then this unattractive boasting, be it intentional or not.

Oh, and to echo all others, it is very bad to be feeding your lo so young with anything other than milk at present.

Sorry, cross posted, I meant the Wysoy.

I've taken him off the ranitide anyway because it's so strong and minty it made him choke a lot, and he cried his eyes out when he had to have it. He wasn't right when he was on it.

The domperidone's quite good though. They thought he had pyloric stenosis at one point but he's getting better by the day at the moment.

it still didnt stop the reflux, but gaviscon and not lying flat helped ds pain in between feeds, ie didnt scream in between feeds. Having little often helped that he seemed not to sick up as much.

I hate threads like these. It's just rude, and it's short sighted too.

My daughter was like this. Did everything first, and effortlessly. I was not at all even a tiny teeeensy bit boasty or smug. And I'm so glad, as my youngest has special needs. He did nothing early. He does everything late. Thank GOD I was not boasty and smug or I'd be so embarrassed now.

Some people don't get this though. One girl in my ante-natal group (from dc1) my dc1 did everything before her dc1 and I said nothing. Her dc2 did everything before my dc3 and she had to mention it. It just made me think less of her social skills really.

That came across more harshly than it was intended. I meant it as a kindly headsup really, that nobody can look into the future. HOw would you like it if your next child is last to do everything, and everybody is making a note of who does what first.

Just be oblivious to who does what first. Or maybe that's impossible with pfbs!

Thanks Keevamum. The HVs have been really nice at how quickly he's coming on.

He has a morning nap and an afternoon nap, but other than that he just sits and takes the world in. He never cries unless he's hungry.

Your daughter sounds very clever, I hope he talks by 10 months, I'd love that. I'm always nattering to him. He just copies the noises at mo.