Weaned dd2 at 4.5 mths:worried

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I was unaware of the new advice to wait until 6 mths as it was 4 mths when I had dd1. I introduced baby rice, pureed fruit and pureed eg. dd2 now 6.5 mths and has 3 meals a day. Should I be worried that dd2 weaned 1.5 mths too early?

why worry about it? you cant undo it.

Are you worried about dd1? Babies didn't change when they started giving new advice out. You are no more likly to have harmed dd2 than dd1. I weaned my ds at 4 months too, he is 2.6.

No no no!!!

What annoys me is that no-one told me, so I just did what I had done before. Why did they change the avice?

Because maternity leave was extended,so they could make public what they had known for a while.
I did one at 4 mths and one at 6mths and I haven't lost a minute's sleep over it.
Neither should you.

Why do we now have to wait till 6 months? Apart from the maternity leave farce??

Enzymes which are responsible for digestion are not yet developed.

Early weaning gives higher risks of food allergies, IBS, obesity.

Essentially, science and the WHO have been saying 6 months for ages (as have Canadian docs, US docs, Italian docs, etc etc), but the UK has only recently come on board.

But don't worry, there's nothing you can do. I weaned DS1 at 16 weeks (the advice was 4 months - 6 months ... I do wish I'd followed more sensible friends and waited until 6 months), and DS2 at 6 months. You do what you can with the information available to you - we all do.

our hv's put on a 'weaning class' when our babies were 14wks because they were so adamant they should be weaned at 16 wks. I didnt know if it was too early but i went with it. My friend was given solids at 10 wks, she is now 25 and fine! i may wait longer with the next one though...

Mine were all weaned at 4 months as per advice at the time, except for ds1 who was weaned at 3 months again on advice from HV. Don't worry about it. The schools are teeming with children who were all weaned at 4 months as per advice at the time and it is not obvious that any of them are suffering as a result.

That is not to say that current advice is wrong before anyone jumps on me, just that I don't think previous advice was wrong either!

At a month old my mother used to crumnle a rusk into my milk and make the hole in the teat bigger. Obviously wouldn't advocate such a measure but I had no problems as a baby, child or adult with allergies or digestion. This was almost 40 years ago!

Your DD1 is fine so why are you worrying about DD2?

yeah, why do you worry? mind you, i was the same, but im first time mum. hv recommended weaning at 17weeks and i started, couple weeks later i told to stop it by another hv, cant tell how they made my life miserable. im all over it but i hate that really had bad time because of some hv`s.
dd is doing fine and we are happy with it.