Advice on "late" weaning

[munchbunch]

DD is now 17 weeks, gaining good weight and still exclusively bf. Since she has mild eczema and dh is allergic, am keen to bf for 6 months and then wean, provided obviously she doesn't look like she wants to be weaned before then. But I seem to be the odd one out with almost everyone I know (including GF!) many of whom started weaning at under 4m . In fact, I saw the health visitor yesterday and she was encouraging me to wean now. Does anyone have any advice on timing? And if I exclusively bf till 6m will this make weaning more difficult?

Croak - thanks for the message. Glad to hear you're having fun too. DD had carrots for lunch today which she enjoyed...only they reappeared out the other end IYKWIM (sorry to be so graphic - hope no-one's eating as they are reading..) when I was in the park with a friend an hour or so later, and without any baby changing facilities, we had to change her on a table in the cafe. Lovely. BF was so much easier....