Oh dear Kazzi, oh dear oh dear. I think it's time to do as you keep promising and stay away. You are tying yourself in knots, contradicting yourself and making yourself look a little bit silly in the process.
I only came back to this to point out in a friendly way that the reason we engaged with you and your posts was because of the incorrect things you state and the danger that you could be seen as endorsing early weaning. Yes, you claim to only be sharing your opinion and not advising but can I refer you to your first post on this thread:
"It all depends on whether you yourself think 3 and a half months is too early to wean your baby onto solids. Nobody knows your baby better than you do".
Sounds a lot like advice to me. And yes, I c+p'ed your words, not because I'm obsessed with you and want to have your babies though it's lovely you think it's all about you, it's a way of showing we've read what you wrote and we are engaging with it. Instead of, you know, random spouting.
And you seemed to imply that I and others, thought that the gut seals on the day a baby turns 6 months. Please re-read. I said that you look at your baby and their development- are they sitting? do they have a pincer grasp? have they lost the tongue thrust reflex?- and you are led by this. The guidelines are around 6 months as this is when these developmental signs are shown. Does it not appeal to you, observing your baby for its own developmental cues and responding them? I thought that was what you were advocating, responding to your own individual baby? Isn't that what we're all advocating.
Please desist in setting up this dichotomy between textbook parents and instinctive parents. I don't own a parenting textbook, I've never read them. I do, however, make it my business to be aware of current safe practice and to understand the research behind it.
You say you're not interested and you don't care about weaning. Why post? Why not go and look at another thread where you are interested and willing to learn and/or engage with others.