What age did you or are you planning to wean your baby & was it puree or finger food?

[champagneandroses]

Trying to get an opinion on this

DD started weaning herself a week or so before she was six months by grabbing a green bean off DH's plate and having a good chomp/suck on it. We then started on finger foods as she seemed to love them (plus I'm lazy) - I didn't puree a thing.

i did say it was copied from another thread meaning that not all of the post may be relevant.

i also think the reason some people are saying in 2001 the guidelines were 26 weeks and others are saying it wasn't 26 weeks until 2004 or whatever is cos the WHO changed their advice in 2001 but most people would have been going off the DOH's advice which didn't change until 2003.

I do think as well, that you have to bear in mind that governments give advice to suit themselves. Here in Ireland, it was advised that solids were fine at 4 months, because that was the amount of maternity leave allowed by the government. Surprise, surprise, when they increased ML to six months, they then started to advise weaning at that age!

5 months, started on puree, little baby rice, some sweet potato, some mash potato just to start the process, one or two teaspoons a day.

At around 6-7 months started to introduce solid food following the BLW method, still used puree fruit occasionally, but mainly solid food as DD prefered to feed herself.

that's why i always think it's better to go with WHO rather than DOH. WHO have no ulterior motive, where as the government set the guidelines for the DOH (i think)