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Weaning

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Should I, shouldn't I?

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mower · 16/02/2006 10:03

Am unsure whether to start weaning or not. DS is 21 weeks, wanted to wait till 26 weeks to wean as he can suffer from eczema, but since sat night I have been needing to feed him twice in the night (breast feeding). He has not woke twice in the night since he has been 6 weeks old.

The waking twice in the night has been since he has had his first cold which started on saturday, but now he seems to be over it the last couple of days, but he is still waking up more.

Should I try him on baby rice, before he starts to get in the habit of waking up more in the night, he is also waking up a few times and putting himself back to sleep, which is great, but this still wakes me and I am becoming very tired!

Please help.
Thanks

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notasheep · 16/02/2006 10:24

The best indicator i had of starting weaning was when dd and ds started to take an interest in my food!

My dd and ds were weaned at approx 24 weeks.

maybe with your ds being poorly he is out of his routine.
I would start when YOU feel its right.Dont be so rigid on how old ds has to be

notasheep · 16/02/2006 10:24

OH and baby rice is yuck!

hunkermunker · 16/02/2006 10:26

Rice has fewer calories than breastmilk - some people swear it made their children sleep better, others say it led to merry hell with sleeping. If you have allergies, I'd say ride it out - I did with DS1 and he started sleeping better again at around the same time as I'd have thought rice had made a difference, had I succumbed. Hope that makes sense...!

hunkermunker · 16/02/2006 10:26

Yes, baby rice is like wallpaper paste, only not as nice.

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mower · 16/02/2006 10:38

As baby rice is yuck, my original plan was to wait till 26 weeks so could skip the rice altogether and go straight onto carrots for example. Does that sound right?

Prephaps if I ride this out then, ds will go back to how he was sleeping.

Thanks for your help.

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hunkermunker · 16/02/2006 10:40

If you wait till 6 months, you can give a far wider range of things - if you're up for it, try baby-led weaning. The basic idea behind this is you sit your child at the table with you and let them experiment with picking food up and getting used to different tastes and textures. Start off with steamed veggies (in baton shapes) and move onto fingers of toast, rice cakes, cheese, anything, really.

Some people leave gluten, etc and dairy till closer to a year, if they have allergies, but you'd be doing that anyway.

Mercy · 16/02/2006 11:08

My two hated baby rice - until I put some mashed banana in it.

Tinker · 16/02/2006 15:55

I found sleep (or night-time waking) got even worse when introduced solids.

CorrieDale · 16/02/2006 17:00

So did I! Admittedly not much worse but they definitely didn't help. And that was with weaning at 26 weeks.

FWIW, a couple of weeks ago DS had got down to a max of twice a night. And quite often it was only once. Then he got a cold and now we're invariably twice a night and he seems to have lost the ability to put himself to sleep! This despite being on 3 meals a day.... So I really don't think that solids would help you in your situation - I too am wondering about the 1 1/2 hour waking at 3am becoming a habit, but I think it'll pass once he gets properly over his cold.

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