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

257 replies

hunkermunker · 05/06/2005 17:26

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?!

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hercules · 05/06/2005 20:22

I said i couldnt understand why. I dont. You are entitled to find this riduculous, I'm entitled not to understand.

I am though refering to people who wean before this time after the advice given and reject it. This was not clear though,so I apologise for that.

ladymuck · 05/06/2005 20:22

Aloha, the difference for me is that when my 4 yo goes to school I don't personally get to choose what goes onto his plate, and whilst I would like to think he wouldn't choose the crap stuff everyday, I would like his relative immaturity to be protected.

Hands up all the 3 month olds who went and bought their own weaning spoons?

Now as we have more teenage mothers then we get into trickier areas (are the mothers mature enough to make the right decisions), but to have to pander only to those?

paolosgirl · 05/06/2005 20:23

Should have added best from a HEALTH point of view.

Flossam · 05/06/2005 20:25

The thing is though that there are so many people out there who read things and take them as gospel. My patients often hang on to me every word (this isn't and ego trip) as they are so anxious to get their own health care right. Leaflets are pored over, read and re read trying to understand everything and make sure they do not ask silly questions. This is they babies health we are talking about. Lots of people do not know what the WHO recommend, or even that they exist. This does all to often seem to be the case with socially deprived mums. I heard one mum asking the health visitor if she could give her few week old baby who was born premmy orange juice to help with here wind. Now, say she never speaks to her HV again (which seems all too very possible ) how is she going to know how and when to wean? A packet of feeding equipment stating they can be used from three months may be her only guidance.

I am ashamed to fall into the early weaner category. DS was 5 months and I just didn't have enough milk. I tried pretty much everything to stave off weaning, and help from you and others Hercules. I read and re-read the Kelly mom site but it just didn't work out. If he has allergies or intolerances I know I will be so guilty.

Enid · 05/06/2005 20:25

as far as being informed goes I though the guidelines came into place when dd2 was about 4 months old - ie 2 and a bit years ago.

certainly had NEVER heard of it before then

Cam · 05/06/2005 20:25

ladymuck, I was a teenage mother

bobbybob · 05/06/2005 20:25

Oh no Oh no! Aloha, I hope that I didn't say that. I don't think HM is criticising anybody (except superdrug!)

I said that that her problem was with the shop, but that people who had bought the spoon or weaned early had taken the fact that HM was concerned about this spoon as an implied criticism of their parenting.

lavenderrrrr · 05/06/2005 20:26

I bottlefed from the first day and weaned my ds at 5 weeks, on chicken and rice with peanut soy sauce, but who's business is it apart from mine?

Dior · 05/06/2005 20:27

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HappyMumof2 · 05/06/2005 20:27

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vickiyumyum · 05/06/2005 20:28

DIOR 0845 677 5000 !

Bugsy2 · 05/06/2005 20:28

PMSL - this is a wind up, surely?

Cam · 05/06/2005 20:28

Oh don't feel guilty Flossam, you did what you considered to be right ( or had no choice but to do ) at the time. I know my babies needed solid food when I gave it to them. How crazy to think all babies develop in any area at the same rate.

lunachic · 05/06/2005 20:29

lavender
ive resisted joining this thread but-
i think sd should change packaging-
and i weaned at 6 mnths-
but youre right at the end of the day its a personal choice for a parent like breast or bottle

lavenderrrrr · 05/06/2005 20:30

If your all so thick you can't reply to me properly then it shows how stupid you are

Dior · 05/06/2005 20:30

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ladymuck · 05/06/2005 20:30

Cam, and from your note below (8:19:32) you clearly have enough common sense not to rely on a packet of spoons to give you information about when wean your child. I'm struggling to identify the people who would misinterpret this as an instruction to wean their baby - possibly (not necessarily) the very young?

happymerryberries · 05/06/2005 20:30

My dd is 8 now and when she was born the advice I was given (and read about) was not to wean before 4 months.

hercules · 05/06/2005 20:31

Oh Flossam, I will shut up now as you shouldnt feel any guilt. Ds suffers badly from allergies and I blame early weaning and formula in the hospital. Of course, I'll never know but it made me very determined to do everything I could to avoid it happening to dd so that's why I read mea lot. I breastfed ds a long time as he had excema and some problems with breathing as a baby and I wanted to do all I could to help. Again I blamed my lack of knowledge when he was born in allowing him to have formula in the hospital.

I know it's not rational and makes me a bit barmy about such things and your post brought that home to me.

Sometimes you should ignore the dogooders like me who forget the real people.

lavenderrrrr · 05/06/2005 20:31

and we put a bit of whiskey in the bottle early on because the HV said so and he slept all night. why don't you lot have a go at me for that too?

hercules · 05/06/2005 20:32

Cant mumsnet ban Mr Lavenderrrr?

Dior · 05/06/2005 20:32

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hercules · 05/06/2005 20:32

because you're not worth it.

ladymuck · 05/06/2005 20:33

At least he always gets a uniform response!

HappyMumof2 · 05/06/2005 20:33

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