Hands Up Who Weaned before 6 months

[BibBabBob]

How many people wean before the 6 months deadline. I've just started my DS on solids after four weeks of horrendous feeding frenzies day and night. I deliberated over the decision for a long time and think I made the right decision though I know there are billions of arguments against it. I wonder how many mums out there have done the same and feel they got it right.

I think that's half the problem though. There is so much (mis)information, the medical profession is always changing it's mind, and research can be interpreted and used in so many different ways. I think it's better to go with your instincts - which is not always easy, esp. as a first time mum, anxious to do the right thing.

Just take everything you are told with a pinch of salt. But obviously no more than a pinch...

Yes, but if you go with 6 months you save yourself faffing with purees.

You were supposed to puree the food???? I just started off with giving them a chip to suck

I'd rather faff with a puree than be woken from my beauty sleep 3 times a night by a starving baby. I'm sorry if that sounds selfish, but it's true!

although I do admit to having a problem in general about going against rules. Often thought I have very slight aspergers- in the family as well.

never had this problem

I did - but DS has slept from 7pm to 7.30am since the day he started on rice! Anyway, rules are made to be broken!

4 months for all my babies as that was when you were told to wean then.

4 months for ds1 and ds2 as that was the advice then. Honestly don't think they really needed it. Ds3 was 6 months but was 2 months prem so really 4 months! But that was on paed's advice for prem babies.

I weaned at 16 weeks I knew it was the right thing to do at the time and it's the advice I was given. DS was at the stage where there was only one formula he could be on and he was taking at most 7ozs in a whole day, he hated the stuff. I will never forget the day I gave him pear and rice - he looked at me as if I was the most amazing person on the planet There was no looking back from that day onwards and subsequently he became a milk monster after that too!

Weaned DD (who is now 3y8m) at 15 weeks after talking with the HV. At the time all the guidance was 4 months anyway.

i did. imo my ds was ready so i did what i thought was best for him. he is now 11 months and eats everything and anything!!

I wish I hadn't weaned my DS2 at four months - I suspect that I may have given him a lifetime problem with his weight .

DS was weaned at 14 weeks .. I plead ignorance as it was when guidelines were 16 weeks and I thought I was doing the right thing as no-one told me I could harm him by feeding him early .. I got that right AT THE TIME because that's what I knew AT THE TIME

DD was 26 weeks because advice changed .. I feel I got that right because I knew about the risks and research regarding early weaning and I would have been remiss to do any different

Weaned ds at 18 weeks I think, because dh was desperate to start feeding him. Dh loves cooking. Regret it now, because ds has eczema and had it very badly as an older baby - I worry that the two are connected (although dh has eczema so it was always a possibility). If I had another, I'd try to wait for six months. Ds gobbled it up, though.

I weened at 4 months because HV adviced me to and dd was a hungry baby.

me. on hv advice.

both my dds were weaned between 3 - 3 1/2 months and have no regrets. just started to weann dd2 now

ps, just a little rusk at tea time, not properly weaned

4 months for both, followed Gina Ford with both, very religiously with dd1 (first baby syndrome) and loosely with dd2.

4 months for me

5 mths as DD was a very hungry baba as she was going thru 9 bottles a day on white sma (7 - 8 oz each) so we decided to wean her and she slowly was taking less milk

DD was weaned at 4 months - that was the advice at the time.

Waited until 6 months with DS (the advice had changed by then) but he wasn't happy at all, so we stopped and tried again at about 7 months. Much happier then.

BibBabBob, the guidelines do very clearly say that you should take into consideration the individual needs of each baby - so please don't feel you have done anything wrong.
It is a very recent recommendation to leave weaning until 6 months. My two are 6 & 3.5 and my ravenous ds was weaned at 16 weeks and my less hungry dd at 20 weeks. At the time that was perfectly acceptable & no one thought it damaging or a bit soon.