Whatever you think of the WHO guidelines, you'll be shocked!

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Well, you might not be.

But I was.

Superdrug's Little Star brand of weaning spoons say suitable from 3 months!

I emailed them and they said they'd pass my comments on to their buyers - wtf?!

Good point about bottles.
Surely parents are still entitled to choose when to wean and have the necessary eqipment no matter how ill informed.

cant you spoon feed water and milk to babies anyway?

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some people will always wean before 6 months, can't imagine how I would have got through that far without giving dd's solids.

I have to say I was a bit mean and only used normal teaspoons anyway as they seemed to cope with them.

Friends baby was bfed exclusively until 6.5 months and she is the most sickly looking child imaginable.

What has that got to do with this discussion?

oh god I just threw it in

sorry not really concentrating.

I also know another baby who was also bfed till 6 months who is lovely and bonny (honest)

just thinking aloud that maybe some babies coudl do with a square meal before 6 months and we should judge by the baby rather than guidelines?

forgiven

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you early weaner cliquers!

I agree HM, and I think people ARE guided by what the packets say (in fact I KNOW some of them)

cant believe I helped give life to it!

As far as Superdrug selling bottles, that's what DS had his EBM from

And people DO go by what packaging says - or they'd just use brown paper and cardboard on everything.

Has nobody heard of marketing or the power of advertising?

Enid - founder of "i had egg yolk at 5 weeks Clique"

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I doubt the buyers at Superdrug who would have approved the packaging design/wording would even have realised that it is contrary to advice related to weaning. It is definitely worth flagging it up even though they won't have broken any laws (unlike promoting infant formula, for example).

There's a thirty-something generation out here (and lots even older than that )who were weaned from about 6 weeks. And gues what? We're not only still here - but we're thriving, and have even managed to produce our own children!! WHO also recommends breast feeding, don't forget - but people decide for themselves if they want to or not. Guidelines are not laws.

I realise guidelines aren't laws.

I was just surprised to see that Superdrug were promoting weaning babies three months earlier than guidelines that have been around for ten years.

hmmmm

but I had milk 'from the doorstep' at 6 days