Dd2 isn't bothered about bf - I have to take the initiative! So how am I supposed to know when she wants to wean onto solids?

[hotmama]

DD2 is 23 weeks this week and is exclusively bf. I think I have lost confidence in seeing 'feeding cues'. It seems that I always have to take the initiative with bf as dd2 doesn't show the traditional cues.

She is finger/thumb/toe sucker anyway - so unless she wants to feed all the time (which she doesn't) - then this isn't much use as a cue.

Sometimes she sleeps through the night and sometimes she doesn't - no sign there then!

She's interested in what is going on in the world - but aren't they all at this age it doesn't mean she is desperate for a banana does it?

I started to wean dd1(ff) at 24 weeks along the traditional puree etc way am thinking of doing more of a blw way with dd2 - but when?

Help and/or advice please.

TIA

They're obviously MNers

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Better if you use the right bracket...

I got "Forbidden" in big black letters

Coo.

So do I now.

Was this

So well worth the wait...!

I bet it was porny filth

actually that picture looks remarkably like my dh

Does he drag you round by the hair? No?

Well, then, I rest my case. No need for early weaning.

The End.

Hang on, I haven't answered it yet!!

No, he doesn't. But I occasionally hold onto his hair so that he can pull me up hills (he has a 3ft pony tail)

I said, "The End" but do people listen? They do not.

Greensleeves - are you patrick swayze's reincarnation?

Sadly not. If I were, I'd shag mesel'

ah feck. was getting quite excited then.....

God I love Patrick Swayze. Especially that mean face he pulls. Ooooh, shiver

ahhh dirty dancing memories flooding back

I always laugh at thigs like "for baby to accept a wider range of tastes 6 months was considered too late." DSs, both weaned at 4 months as per the then current advice, ate pretty much anything. until they hit around 18 months and developed and demonstrated an "opinion". I've not managed to drag them back on track yet.

BabyDragon will be 6 months whilst w are in Antigua and I fully intend for her first taste of solid food to be an Antiguan banana. Because there's a section in her baby book saying "the first solid food I tasted was..." and it'll look cool I do think she's ready now though but I'm not ready to wean her yet.

My LO was six months yesterday and for the last few weeks (since he could sit up supported in his high chair) he has been joining the other 5 of us for our evening meal roughly down the BLW route. My method is that I'm not going to puree or mush anything that isn't already runny or mush so I have spoonfed him yoghurt which he loved so much we have a spoon each (actually ds2 likes to do it). So far he has munched on all sorts and a fair amount has made it through to his nappy including a rather alarming inch long piece of asparagus! Mostly though they are little flecks indicating he is chewing and swallowing. He has set the pace and I'm following. Yesterday I felt very proud of him as we sat outside an Italian restaurant with a friend and her baby. He was eating Heinz orange gunk and my babe wrestled with me over my toasted chicken salad sandwich. He gobbled up a large piece of roast chicken in its entirety to everyone's amazement, sucked on some cucumber and nibbled on some toast. I know they don't recommend granary and yes I can see the seeds in his poo but he loves it.

How many posts - O.K. not necessarily re my question - I'll know when to post in future.

Thanks for your inputs - check out the baby having a roast chicken sarni.

I'm intending to go down a more BLW route - so I'll see how it goes when the time is right - not yet.

Think the guidance re 4 months weaning is rubbish - my HV (a very rare good one) is very supportive of me still bf, holding out until 6 months for weaning - and she has recommended the BLW route and has read the La Leche booklet.

Any other posts on any subject are welcome (can't really see the lusciousness of Patrick Swayze myself but each to their own!)

hotmama my dd2 is 9 months now but also never really into bfing (although I am still bfing her although half the time she is screaming at me to put the stupid boob away) - but by 5 months she was very much showing an interest in food and I was struggling to contain her at mealtimes (she would be on my lap) because she wanted to touch and taste stuff. So I let her start doing that at around 5 months (just putting stuff in her mouth - not baby rice or anything [winki]) and at 6 months I just started mushing up gunk and giving her that and she was really up for it.

How does she behave when you are eating?

I weaned dd1 at four months as the guidlines at the time, I was an incredibly un-confident first time mother so did everything by the book... I must have mashed and pureed every fruit and veg known to mankind..... result dd1 is the worlds most fussy eater, her current favourite thing to eat is errr boiled rice with nan bread (don't ask me why I can't stand nan bread myself).

Dd2 was born soon after the 6 month advice and I weaned her at almost 7 months, partly due to laziness partly because when I panicked a bit at 6 months and gave her her first taste of baby rice (mixed with ebm), she took a huge mouthful smiled and.... spat it right back into my face....
With dd2 I kind of fast forwarded the weaning process didn't spend quite so much time in the kitchen pureeing stuff and dd2 will eat anything she's 21months and seems to be a good eater...