My son is 9 months but was just over a month early so we had the 8 month check today.
He's breastfed and was started on solids at 26 weeks actual age.
He now has 3 meals a day and snacks, a combination of chunky purees and finger food. He eats pretty much anything - typical day would be a baby yoghurt and a couple of baby rice cakes for breakfast, half a wholemeal pitta with peanut butter (no allergies in the family), few bits of steamed veg to hold and eat (this mostly gets chucked on the floor) and a stage 2 pouch or homemade equivalent and a few slices of fruit for lunch and same at dinnertime. Also rice cakes/fruit/ella's cookies as snacks.
I BF about 5 times a day on top of that including one night feed (I know, they all say you're not supposed to feed at night at this point).
So BF first thing, before morning nap, before afternoon nap, last thing before bed and once in the night.
She said that I should only be BFing three times a day. I think this is crazy. She said I should be trying to get DS to eat more puddings. I was totally 
at this stage and didn't bother arguing but it's been playing on my mind for the rest of the day that I'm doing something wrong.
He started out on the 9th centile, went up to the 50th at 6 weeks corrected and stayed there until 14 weeks. Since then he has slowly descended to the 25th at 34 weeks. Lengthwise he's on the 50th.
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8 month check today - was HV talking bollocks?
bearcrumble · 17/11/2010 22:24
PS My fav weaning talk with my hv went like this:
Me - we have told the nursery DD can have cows milk as she is 11 months and I don't see the point of her starting on formula now just to switch over in 3-4 weeks time (until then she had refused milk during the day and just had bf morning and evening but she was starting to want what the other kids had. It lasted 2 days before she went back to only drinking water 
).
HV - oh no, she can't have that yet as under-ones can get botulism from cow's milk!
Me - then why can I put it on her cereal now?
HV - oh the weetabix coats her intestines and stops the botulism getting in
Me- 
what rubbish!
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