anyone tried early blw?

[wartywarthog]

my dd is just over 5 months and is waking up hungry during the night (has slept through since 6 weeks), salivating wildly and lunging at our food staring at us all the while like a rabid wolfhound. i'm convinced she's ready for food and am considering starting her on blw next week when she's 5.5 months.

i figure that if we give her fruit and veg to chew on, if she's ready she'll manage to eat some, otherwise she'll just enjoying smearing it everywhere.

does anyone have any thoughts on this? do you think i should wait the extra two weeks until 6 months?

tia

LOL I have another friend who had a little non-sleeper and we share a mutual friend whose dd annoyingly slept through from about 3 weeks. Full stop. She recently had another baby and we were rubbing our hands with glee saying "bet she gets a crap sleeper this time, heh heh"

New baby slept through, age 6 days

if your dd is 6, norah, when were you told to wean her, would it have been at 3 months or so? the 'rules' have changed now, so we are 'encouraged'to wait til 6 months. and by that time, evidently, the babies are able to eat finger food (i'm sure your daughter was) so that's why it's different. i didn't think you were intruding at all, and i do hope i didn't contribute to making you feel that way. i thought that despite not having twigged about the blw typo you made an interesting point about developmental readiness.

warty, i'm sure if you can help her tooth pain that she will settle right back down... fingers crossed.

How long did the non-sleeping last? Felt like years! He slept through for the first time at 10 months, after we nightweaned him. We did it pretty gently, and not because of the poor sleeping. Well not JUST because of it. He had started having his first proper feed at 3pm (no, not a typo) and then cluster feeding in the evening, and waking every couple of hours for another feed. He'd also have a cot boogie for a couple of hours at about 2am, for which he required an audience. I decided that we had to stop him from filling up at night, and get the night-day balance better organised, so DH went in and cuddled him when he woke, for 3 consecutive nights. I can't lie - DS was not happy! But not nearly as unhappy as I'd expected and when I took over the cuddles, he never asked to be fed. By the time he was 11 months he was reliably sleeping through, although he's had a few dodgy nights lately, thanks to having just started walking.

i live in hope then franny!

well she slept through til 7 this morning but we were out last night so she was ultra-tired. crossing fingers for tonight...