My child is 6 months in 11 days can I start weaning ?

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Just that really . She’s 6 months in 11 days , and when I rang the new health visitor (my old one left so I’ve gotten a new one) to see when she was coming to review dd and I also mentioned that her reflux has seemed to get worse not better . She asked “have you started weaning yet?” I said I’ve just given her some spoon feeds of fruit and veg every so often , and she has had a melty puff as she loves shoving everything in her mouth and she loved it ! But this reflux is insane , every single time she has a bottle and burps , loads comes up, then hours after she’s still bringing up milk , I know there’s some people that will tell me just to wait 11 days and there’s some people that will say just do it it’s only 11 days , but my hv isn’t coming out till 23rd April and she’ll be 6 months by then , can I start introducing food to her now or should I wait 11 days ?

If she's sitting up and interested, definitely keep giving her new things to try. Don't buy any of those foods marketed for babies though, they're all full of rubbish and a total waste of money - including those 'puffs'. just give squashed up bits of whatever you are eating, that's all i've ever done, and you can give tap water.

Of course you can. Mine started eating foods at four months as they were big babies and hungry.
These things are all recommendations, they aren't the law. And they change over time. Anyway you've already started.

Phew thank you everyone !

re protein, she will still be getting her protein requirements from milk. I would leave off eggs for a bit if you suspect she might be allergic or there is a family history of allergies.

Ds2 had severe reflux, we were told to try pure foods first ie just potato or just carrots before any blends to see if they helped as they are thicker and should help keep some of the milk down (Ds was on a prescription anti-reflux formula and under a paediatrician)

Honestly, I would feed your child veg to start with and mainly the veg you eat with your dinner/lunch because then they hopefully eat what you eat, none of this "children's menu" foods like chicken nuggets and chips unless you eat that.

Also the more natural stuff you give ie carrots etc the more they get used to a varied taste of carrot throughout the year rather than pouches/jars which will taste the same every time. I know it seems like this is the easy route but if they are eating what you eat then you are just saving some food from your own food prep. If you do go down the pouch/jar front don't warm it through unless it says it has to be heated. They don't know food is meant to be hot, you will spend half your life trying to cool it all down.

No history of allergies, was just curious if allergens should be introduced now. Most things like Ella’s kitchen stuff 6months plus has protein in it like chick peas , was just wondering if that was okay

See for porridge do I use blue cows milk or her milk ? What type of things should I start her for breakfast ?

For cooking, just use full fat cows milk.

I used to do all sorts for breakfast. Any sort of bread eg toasts, muffins, eggy bread, crumpets, bagels and so on. Cereals like porridge and Weetabix were a favourite but Shreddies and similar were good for their hand/eye coordination. Eggs in lots of forms but they particularly liked omelette which you can add all sorts to. Fruit and yoghurt were also regular staples. Basically, they just had what we had.

I used pouches and jars for DT’s - spoon fed them- worked our way through the age ranges. Worked perfectly for us - they grew up eating everything - I didn’t have fuzzy eaters. Never wanted to do blw - too messy.