feeling a bit guilty

[Liz79]

I know I'm bonkers probably. DS is 24 weeks and today I gave him some plum baby 4 grain porridge (4m+ stuff) mixed with breast milk, and he took my arm off for it. Loved it. He is so ready, he puts everything in his mouth and loved the porridge after the 1st spoon, he kept pulling my hand to his mouth :)

I feel disappointed in myself because he is 12 days short of 6m and I really wanted to exclusively bf him for that long but today I jsut thought what the hell: 12 days won''t make any difference - he wants something, he's ready! He does have the tiniest bit of eczema on his head which I thought was a reason for waiting and also he is a BIG baby, he was 9lb 12oz at birth. I wanted to prove that you can exclusively bf big babies for 6m!

I wanted to get him some organic carrots from M&S but DH said that was OTT so we got asda ones

You're not bonkers but you have nothing to feel guilty about -- obviously :)

I know what you mean, though. DD is five and a bit months, and if I don't manage to express a full feed this evening/tomorrow morning (which is unlikely), she will have her first bottle of formula tomorrow, because I have to go out and leave her with DP. I have had a carton of SMA in the cupboard for weeks in case of this precise type of situation but an irrational part of me still feels bad about the idea she might have it.

Nuts really, when she'll be onto food in a few weeks anyway. And I am not of the opinion that formula is evil (DS was mix fed from 4.5 months).

6 months is a rough date. Some will be ready just before, some after. It's 12 days difference! You'll laugh at yourself in a few months.

I recall traipsing around Edinburgh on buses etc looking for organic swede a few years ago, because DS "had" to try swede that week according to my Grand Weaning Plan. And only organic would do, of course. I am happy to admit to a bit of harmless PFB-ism, though

Do not feel guilty for a second. You know your baby and instinctively gave him some solid food, he enjoyed it and so is ready. I weaned all three of mine at about the same time as you. Some babies are content with milk until 6 months, others seem to need solids before that. It's fines

Current advice is 4-6 months anyway. Enjoy weaning, it's great to see their reactions to different food.

DS is DC2, I started BLW my daughter the day she was 6m (because something happened at midnight that day obviously, and she needed solids then For some reason I am probably being more PFB generally with Ds than I was with DD. MIL thinks its cos he's a boy. Mums love boys more than girls.

I am doing Annabel Karmel's meal planner to the letter thsi time. Except we are going away in 3 weeks so have bought the ellas kitchen sachet food for that week. I feel bad about that too, having jar food so soon. Hence bought the pricey ones. Wouldn't have thought twice with DD. In fact probably would have just not got anything for her and just shoved some of my food in front of her.

DH thinks its OK doing it early as he was born 12 days late anyway so actually should be 6m today

9lb 12oz yikes!!

I was going to make exactly the same point... if he had been born 12 days earlier he would be exactly the same baby but you would have started weaning on the date you did. Nothing to feel guilty about.

I have the same ideals about organic but always end up buying normal, just remember to peel veg if you're really concerned and it will be fine. Anyway if you did do exclusively organic you would be really restricting what your LO can eat, and how long are you going to keep it up anyway? Until they're 8 months? 12 months? 18 years?

What is PFB??