Have you managed to hold off on solids until 6 mths?

[Swirl]

Would love to hear of any success stories from those who have managed to leave weaning until 6 mths. Am still really hoping to hold off, DS2 is 18 weeks and breastfed. He is waking anything between 1-3 hrly at night which seems to be part hunger, part teething. How did you find the 4 to 6 mth period in terms of freq of feeds and night sleeps?

Hi swirl, I made it to 5 months but then he strated to look "hungry" ( I know this sounds daft!) and would try to grab bits from my plate! I gave him a bit of baby rice and mashed banana/pear/carrot/peas/potato/mango but just little tastes at first. It did seem to help him to sleep longer at night. I carried on BF to 13 months. Good luck!

nope gave dd purees at 4 months and she is more settled with feeding now

dd3 i weaned at 5.5months. she is a grabber when itcomes to food. started off with babyrice, she loved now, now sweet potato and carrots are a favourite here.

didnt affect her sleeping at night as she generally sleeps through anyway.

misdee at "grabber"! It used to make me laugh, chubby little hands clutching bits of broccoli or mashed potato!

she pinched some apple of me earlier on. never eat with he ron your lap, as she will steal the food off your fork.

may I borrow her? I'm trying to lose a stone!

I made it to 6 months less a week or so, with DS2. (I gave up because a) he was stealing food, and b) it's silly to bother timing these things exactly.) Although it really took about another month before anything really went down.

And he's turned into a real table scraps boy. He's never liked baby food (homemade or otherwise), and doesn't like being spoon-fed, but he loves all sorts of interesting foods.

Four to six months was a bit rough, but we were co-sleeping, so I didn't have to notice how often he fed in the night, IYSWIM.

i sort of co-sleep with dd3, she is in her cot at the start of the night then in my bed from around 2am if she wakes up. so no idea how much she 'snacks' at night.

My baby's now 7 months. I started him on solids (kind of) at about 6.5 months but he's been slow to take an interest. He's just begining to actually want solids.

By the way, he's still waking 3/4 times in the night, solids or not, and I expect he will for a good few months yet if my other three are anything to go by.

He's in bed with me which makes night feeds easy.

Fwiw starting solids is quite a hassle and the longer you can hold off the simpler it is.

With ds1 the advice was 4-6mths, so we weaned at 4mths, with ds2, being the stickler that I am we weaned at 6mths and had no problems, he was bottlefed and continued normally with his feeds in the 4-6mth period.

I started about 5.5 months but I agree with spidermamma, put it off as long as you can! Mainly as it is so much simpler when it is just milk/bottle!

Also didn't affect my daughters sleeping in the slightest. At around that age she still woke up at least once and that went on until 10 months when I finally got off my arse and did cc.

I meant breast/bottle

Thank you all for the replies. It really is encouraging to read, and very interesting that there seems no effect on sleeping patterns. Am still battling on, now with renewed determination to make it to 6 mths! Thanks

around 4 months ds started to feed constantly and wake up too often. I gave him a bottle of formula in the evening once I couldn't bear to feed him anymore, it seemed to work and we were both happier. i introduced solids at almost 6 months. Milk feeding is much less hassle and mess.

Agree with NQC, it took me some time to really get ds to work out that food is good and get much down him!

My ds is 5.5 mth and not yet on solids ... he's definitely hungry these days though and has become a total milkaholic and upped the amount of milk he needs.

I'm breastfeeding and expressing when I'm at work so find it difficult to keep up. I spoke to paed. and she said that it was better to increase amount of formula rather than intoduce solids. I was surprised by that but she said that if I couldn't keep up with breastfeeding then formula milk was better than introducing food.

I'm going to start with solids at weekend ... a week early but I can tell he's ready now.

I held off until 6 months. DS, however, was teething a lot between 4 and 9 months and could go weeks surving on BF alone. Maybe a teaspoonful or two of fruit puree a day, but often nothing else. Made me realise that there is too much fuss and pressure to start solids.

I started dd on solids at 6 months - tbh she just wasn't ready beforehand - was content with milk. For 2 or 3 days before we started she was really grisly, then when she had her first taste of solid food it was like she thought 'this is what I've been waiting for' and has never looked back!