when can i start feeding my baby solids?!?

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Have a 3month old. Baby food jars say start at 4 months health visitor says 6 months. I feel he is very hungry and ready for solids however have been told his digestive system may not be fully developed. Please help.

The current weaning advice in Ireland is actually six months for BOTH bf and formula fed babies :).

Re. Early potty training - I think mums used to be advised to hold their baby on the potty after feeds/regularly, u til they did a wee or poo - and they would come to associate the sensation of the rim of the potty with weeping or pooing - it was a reflex action.

It did make sense, I guess, because it meant fewer wet/dirty nappies, at a time when getting them washed and dried was much harder. But the babies were not consciously controlling their bowels and bladder - it was pure reflex.

I don't have a huge bathroom, but always changed them in bathroom doorway as like I said you need to empty poo. You do know even with disposables you are supposed to empty the poo before binning as human waste shouldn't be binned. Those changing in bedrooms or living rooms surely you them need to leave baby alone to go to bathroom to empty poo? Much more hassle. With two children close in age I wanted them both within sight hence easier to all head to toilet, change newborn, toilet older

I use washable nappies and always change in the bedroom. Then you can keep an eye on the toddler playing if you have two and are changing the baby, there's more space, I keep the clean nappies there, there are spare clothes in case of poo explosions. Lots of reason....

Go into bathroom to tip any poo, put nappy in bin and wash hands. Baby/toddler is safely in their own room out from under foot. I would far rather the toddler be out of sight for a few seconds than attempting to climb into the nappy bin or throw things down the loo (I know you are going to say that yours never did that Art. But yours are far more law abiding than mine. I still remember the time you told me that they never wiped snot down you with wonder).

Library - I admit they are pretty good, if I was changing newborn, 15 month old would just sit next to me handing wipes. I think they have never really been snotty to wipe anything...

Yup. Utterly different children . My DD's are lovely. But there is no way on god's earth that at 2 DD1 would happily have sat in the bathroom without getting into mischief.

DS is nearly 1.5. After changing, it is far safer to have him next to his lego and blocks than in the bathroom with me.

Sorry but I have no idea how I would 'tip the poo' of my 8 month old daughter down a toilet given its not solid

Haha I'm trying to imagine "tipping" the poo of a breastfed newborn down the toilet. I've never heard of doing that with disposable nappies before in my life. I've learnt something new today!

My DD's nappies didn't become solid enough to tip until she was over a year old!

"Those changing in bedrooms or living rooms surely you them need to leave baby alone to go to bathroom to empty poo?"

I assume that you didn't breastfeed? Breastfed poo is far too runny to tip down a toilet.

My dd was formula fed for the most part, is now weaning, and is still not solid enough to tip.

I have had 2 children in disposables and never tipped poo from a nappy into the toilet. Also never changed them in the bathroom as it's too small so they were changed in the bedroom or living room.

The whole point of disposables is that you dispose of the whole thing including the contents

Also, it never occurred to me that you were supposed to tip the contents of a disposable nappy down the loo. I don't know anyone else who did either.

Actually you are meant to tip it if it is the sort that can be demented. All a bit academic if you can't. And few people do anyway.

Surely people go to wash hands though ?

Poo isn't supposed to go in household waste. It's supposed to be dealt with by the sewerage system.

Just because people don't throw poo down the koi, doesn't mean they should.

Koi-loo

I'm sure they don't put the contents of a dog poo bin down a giant toilet so I'm sure a bit of human poo in a nappy is fine too

Think it's all getting a bit too PC now lol.

I've never tipped the contents of a nappy down the toilet. I've never changed them in the bathroom. We have mats downstairs and upstairs.

I always tipped contents down the loo if possible, once the baby was on solids. Horrid not to!

Dog poo bins are classes as clinical waste and incinerated.

The point being that faecal bacteria should not be going into landfill, where it can get into the water table and spread disease.

Incineration or sewage is the correct way to deal with faeces.

They have combined dog poo/general waste bins here so I don't think they class it as clinical waste. Also the government website says waste from households isn't classed as hazardous and is ok to go in the general waste bin

Bun - yes I breastfed. You have hold softer poo nappies in the toilet flush so most is rinsed away, tip out once solid.

Your bins must all stink of shit! And yes as above how are you washing hands after nappies if you don't go in bathroom?

I washed my hands at the kitchen sink. DD had medical needs which meant that I couldn't take her to the bathroom without having to lug loads of medical equipment upstairs.