Help me hold out until 6 months!

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hello

my dd is 5 months old & exclusively breastfed. I'm starting to feel under pressure to introduce solids.

• my h/v spouted the (sadly) usual stuff about how 6 months is recommended for babies in developing countries -here we need to introduce solids earlier or it stunts their speach development etc - i'm happy to ignore her!

• dd is the oldest in our post natal nct group, but looks likely to be the last to wean. all the talk is of what fruit/veg combinations the babies are enjoying.

• all my collegues say 'you can't make her wait until 6 months! she'll be starving'

• my mil is dying to give her a some yucky baby rice or custard(sigh).

all this i'm happy to resist, but dd seems desperate to start eating. we were sat next to a little boy (10 or 11 year old) on the train earlier in the week, when she made a lunge for his sandwich! she was staring at him intently for the whole time he was eating, and kept trying to grab it off him. in the end he said 'would she like a piece of cheese?'

she can sit without support for a few mins at a time - but that doesn't mean her gut's ready, does it??

please help me resist...

thanks!

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novadandypowder, neither of mine started sleeping through until I did middle-of-the-night CC thing, so I can't speak from experience.

But yeah, if a baby's waking up in the middle of the night from hunger, I'd give milk. I think 6 months is a bit early to expect them to sleep through.

mower, it's worth noting that your ds might have started sleeping well again, without the solids. There's no way of knowing.

And of course we all do the best we can with the information we have.