DBW have no idea what he weighs, does that have a bearing on weaning? Did not know that! He has not been weighed for about 4 weeks, so due tomorrow, which is going to coincide with his jabs, unless it has been 5 weeks which it might have, and his jabs were due last week! But if that was the case, we would have had a bollocking letter from the Drs surgery to tell us!
I want to do BLW, we did it with DD, She told us she was ready to eat, as she grabbed a piece of toast and marmite that a friend's little boy was eating and ate it! (or rather, gummed it!) We started with puree at about 5 months (she loved pureed peas, although the green stains!) and moved onto a combination of both. It was great. For breakfast we did scrambled egg, or some fruit, or toast (sucks on it no no risk of choking if it is a big bit). Also did not really pay too much attention to it being 'breakfast' food, gave her what we thought she would like. I think, but can't remember, that she would have like a bit of puree/yoghurt that kind of thing, along with a couple of pieces of whole cooked apple or carrot, or a bit of banana, then lunch/tea would be similar but with carrot/sweet potato pieces, and also some puree. I do remember, when she was a bit older (about 8-9months?) giving her a large chunk of pork chop (you know those boneless chops?) for her to chomp on! It was great as she sucked and chewed, got all the juice and flavour from it and no risk of choking as it was enormous! Reuben is starting to show an interest now, he looks at our food, he can hold his head up, we are borrowing a bumbo from a friend to start weaning in for when we do start. I am just a bit less keen to get him doing it all so quickly, I guess, i don't want him to grow up so fast! I feel there really is no rush this time, he is happy with milk, he loves his milk and being breastfed, so I am happy to keep this going for a while. BUT, I am also excited about weaning, as it is so much fun!
raggie i love that you call your little girl Roo! Reuben is Roo too, and Roobear. My friend has this annoying habit of calling him Rude Boy, and keeps singing that new Rude Boy song by Cant Remember Her Name . I shan't tell him we don't like it though, he will only do it for longer!
We don't want Reuben in his own room yet, so we are planning on his cot going up this week in our bedroom, but i am suspecting that he will probably go into his own room sooner rather than later. DD decided at 8-9 months to go into her own room and we think she might have slept better earlier if we had done it earlier. But I really like waking up with him next to me .
I am in fact, feeling rather tearful about him moving, and about him weaning, and about lots of things! DD starting school in September. I was a bit tearful in the night and started planning all the lovely things we are going to do between now and then as I am on ML, as we won't be able to do things together in the week any more . I want to keep them as my little babies, bad sleeping or not!