Neighbour is making me panic...

[AnnaLiza]

That I've got it all wrong!
Save for the odd spoonful or bite at our foid, i started weaning quite late because we were away the whole month when DS turned 6 months. When we got back he was almost 7 months and we're going strong with BLW, so much so that I need to stop him from eating too much because I'm worried he may not cope or be sick. Well tonight my neighbour came round and saw him eating pasta with tomato sauce, olive oil and a laughing cow cheese triangle and said I should give one food at a time otherwise his digestive system won't cope and he'll get eczema or other illnesses when he's older. Is that true? Now I'm panicking!
Also can you tell me how many meals should he be having at his age? At the moment I'm giving him breakfast and dinner with breastfeeding in between, including at night. I think he would like more solids in between breakfast and dinner but I'm reluctant to give more in case he fills up and stops breastfeeding.
Thank you for any advice!

Um. I have never heard that before about weaning a7 month old. Yes, if he was 4 months, maybe.

I think the advice is to separate out allergic foods if you suspect that your baby might have a reaction, just so you can see which one is the culprit, if anything did happen. Nothing has happened! You don't have a problem, bar your neighbour!

If weaning from 6 months, you can just give them everything, so no worries

Your neighbour is crazy, what would you do, give a baby a cube of something puréed to crap then stave them for 6 hours??!!

Sounds like you are doing brilliantly :)

We BLW and DS ate lots from about 7mo onwards. He didn't drop BFs at all though and had to be 'gently' encouraged to do so from about 9mo onwards. We are still BF morning and night at 16mo.

Remember he's going to move toward needing fewer feeds anyway, even though the majority of his nutrition is coming from milk he will go longer between bigger feeds, no matter how much solids he's having.

Neighbour is talking tosh.

I'd breast feed him before a meal, then give him 3 meals a day. That way he is eating when he is not starving and you'll get a better idea of what's going on for him.

It's a very outdated view. (Some) People used to think you had to get babies to 'tolerate' one taste and then move on to new ones. Actually, if you wean at an appropriate developmental stage, particularly if you BLW, (and obviously excepting babies with health problems relevant to weaning) this is totally and utterly unnecessary.

The illness stuff is bollocks.

Go at your own pace with meals. You may well find if you offer a third meal he will eat less at each and keep up the bf. There is no right and wrong with how many meals. I'm another who introduced breakfast late. It is only scary experts who make out there is. Just have a play about and see what works.

If there's no history of allergies then it's fine. DD is ten months old next week and as soon as we started weaning at six months, we pretty much threw anything and everything at her and she's been fine.

Thank you so much guys for your replies! Very reassuring! I thought it was a bit bonkers having to wait between one food and the other...
I feel much better now!