Weaning at 4 months?

[Magicandsparklee]

Hi everyone, my little girl is exactly 4 months on Saturday and I was wondering about weaning.

I've done allot of conflicting research about weaning at 4 months and waiting until 6 months and am stuck of what to do.

She can sit up not completely on her own but with tiny support, she has grabbed a chip of my plate today and tried to shove it in her mouth (obviously I stopped her!) and has always shown an interest in food.

She has slept trough the night since she was 4 weeks old but the last 2 weeks has started waking 3/4 times so we switched to hungry baby milk which has reduced the wakes to 2 times but she still seems hungry!

I let her have a little suck on my apple today and she loved it and was grabbing at it for more so I do think she's ready. How can I tell for sure though?

Can anyone offer me any advice as to how to go about weaning and what to start her on ect.. I'm going to make my own purees but I don't no weather to start on baby rice\rusks and milk first?

Thanks allot :)

Once you've weaned one kid it's very obvious from their output that they do not absorb much from the food at the start. By the time they're 1 this has changed gradually. I started weaning my son at 5.5 months but regretted it. He went from sleeping soundly to waking for milk as he was so 'full' from the tiny amounts of food during the day. This time around I will be waiting till 6 months & taking it very very slowly.