Has anyone weaned before 6 months?

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As title suggests?
I have been having trouble getting any Mille into my 18 week DD, it is a daily battle and she refuses anything after taking half oz!
My HV isn't any help she says not to worry and she'll grow out of it, this has now been going on for 7 weeks!
Basically I want to know if anyone has weaned their baby this young? I know to speak to HV first but thinking MN might have some advise!
I'm in tears everyday because she just won't eat

Dd is 21. The advice then was 4 months at the earliest. I weaned her at 6 months.

My dcs are mid - late 20s. No red book when they were born, just hv/gp advice. With DC1 hv suggested baby rice at around 12 weeks because he was taking so much milk that he couldn't keep it down. She suggested that 1tsp baby rice = 1oz milk. DC 2 was started on baby rice slightly earlier, again after discussion and advice from hv. DC2 was a very hungry baby from the start. I couldn't keep up with bf and midwife advised me to switch to formula. After baby rice they both switched to pureed home cooked food with no issues.
Both are very healthy, intelligent adults with no dietary problems. Whilst I agree guidelines are generally fine, I don't regard them as set in stone and would always advise discussion with hv or gp.

A lot of the posts on here are based on a complete misunderstanding. The point is that most babies - probably the vast majority - will be completely fine being weaned early. But some won't. And as you can have no idea which sort of baby you've got, it's best to leave it as late as possible. Because there is no advantage to going early. And for some babies it can be a problem.

Oh, and the guidelines don't "keep changing". They have been the same for 20 years at least!

"Oh, and the guidelines don't "keep changing". They have been the same for 20 years at least!"

Not true for NHS in UK. They changed between my DC2 and DC3. Around 14 years ago.

"Not true for NHS in UK. They changed between my DC2 and DC3. Around 14 years ago."

Really? From what to what?

It's true the guidelines don't keep changing, and when they last changed (I think in 2000) it was from 'between four and six months' to 'six months' .....so not much even then.

Individual hcps had a tendency to interpret them as they wished, though. So you'd get mothers saying they were told '16 weeks' , for example.

From weaning from 16 weeks+onwards to weaning from 6 months+onwards (I'm not really counting the later change to 'around 6 months+onwards, though I suppose some people might)

Note - that is not verbatim from NHS advice, though I could probably dig that out if anyone thought that really, really mattered. I mean the removal of the mention of 16 weeks, which occurred in the early 00s. I think tiktok is slightly out to put it as early as 2000, but we're talking about the same event.

If I remember correctly, it wasn't weaning from 4 months, it was not before 4 months.

16 weeks was not guidance. It was individual hcps making it up.

I've just looked at my NHS book from that era and it says to wean between four and six months. Because leaving it later was explicitly advised against 'If weaning is delayed, some babies also have difficulties in eating food with lumps and will only accept purses"

There was also a side bar saying that bought baby foods were OK from 4 months onwards too, with a separate list of ingredients to avoid before 6 months.

That seems pretty different to current advice! Though I only really see that referred to on here, not currently having a weanling myself.

Bertrandrussell they changed from 4-6 months advice between 2001 and 2005 sometime, as it changed between my two.