Are you seeing a health visitor in the near future? Can you do Hunker a favour, please?

[hunkermunker]

This explains more about it

Thank you very much. Please bump this thread - I'm going to post it in weaning too.

health visitor? whjat's one of them?
I (luckily) haven't seen one since ds2 was 6 weeks old, he's now almost one.
In fact, I think mine has been off sick all that time.
I tried to see one a couple of times but they kept accidentlaly fucking my appt up.

but if I come across any lurking in the streets I'll ask

Pudding I'm fairly certain it's crap. In any case my DS was weaned at 6 months, was an olympic lump-eater at 6.5 months (whole brussel sprouts his favourite) and has speech delay at 22months

Hunker, don't know if this will help but last year (think it was about 12 months ago) we went to a sleep consultant to get some advice on ds's dreadful sleeping. We parted company because she was most insistent that the problem was lack of solids (he was 4.5mo at the time) - I didn't believe her (and weaning a month later didn't make any difference, natch). BUT, when I challenged her about the guidelines she claimed that there was about to be a change to the DoH guidelines and that there was an article (either just been published or about to be) in the HV journal that referred to a study that said that babies who weren't weaned until 6 months were at risk of anaemia. Hence the change to guidelines...I don't know whether the article appeared, I just ignored her, but might be worth looking into whether that article ever appeared...

Snickersnack, please can you post that on my blog?

I'll have a look for the article - thank you very much.

PMSL - am googling to find stuff about weaning age and it's all about sodding foals!

so when are foals weaned?

About four to six months it would seem, irritatingly from the pov of googling for info about human babies!

Mind you, am tempted by the idea of inventing a baby nosebag.

I don't think speech delay has anything to do with eating lumps- sounds like nonsense to me.

If some babies have a physical reason that makes it difficult for them to process lumps then they will probably struggle with speech as well.

My dd1 didn't eat anything till she was 8mo and didn't say anything till she was 19mo (ta). She had mild toungue tie but the paed told us catagorically that it would not affect her speech (BF or eating too). When we watch video clips of her as a baby she sounds like a deaf child. She is now 2.3yrs and has a good vocab but is not very clear and uses a mix of very high/low pitched voice.

Speaking to HV tomorrow about weaning dd2 so will ask for you Hunker.

Spoke to H/V (please don't make me speak to her ever again!)

I asked if she had heard about weaning being changed to 4 months and she said, 'oooh, hadn't heard that. But didn't know about those NICE guidelines either you brought in...'

(about times to weigh a healthy baby)

Useless...

My lovely health visitor came round this morning for my antenatal visit so I took the opportunity to ask her. Her advice is 6 months and she's certain that within our local area that is standard advice,although she is going to go back and check that it is the case. I've also given her details of your site,hunker,and Aitch's. I pointed her in the direction of Mumsnet too,she thought I'd been talking about netmums and hadn't realised they were different .

Btw that was for BF and FF babies.

6 months here too, hasn't heard anything to the contrary

My friend is weaning her ff baby at four months on the advice of her hv, she was told it had changed to four months but the 6 months still applied to bf babies.