Weaning and how often to feed?

[SueH17]

Hi,
I have waited until my DS is 5 and a half months old and have just started to introduce purees, apple and baby rice and also baby porridge. The Aptimel one has added vitamins and iron. My HV says if I carry on breast feeding my DS will need vitamins, so one question I have is does he still need these if they are in the porridge?

I have only fed purees once a day so far for about 4 days and wondered when do I increase the feeds to twice or 3 times a day?

DS has trouble sleeping - he wakes every 1 and a half hours every single night! It is exhausting and I have been told by family to introduce solids as he isn't getting what he needs from my milk - this is rubbish according to my HV! I have steered away from giving him formula as my HV said this will make no difference to his sleeping patterns. It's just the way he is! Also he has put on weight nicely so has no trouble with weight gain.
I want to continue B/F for a while yet so will have to put up with the sleepless nights.

Has anyone had any similar experiences?

Thanks
Sue xx

Hi MigGril, thanks for the info on choking. I can see that it's easy to panic and confuse it for just gagging. We tried him with a very small piece of cheese on the advice of someone and he looked like he was choking but was in fact just gagging. Never again will I give him something that small.
Thanks also for the advice on ratio of BM to solids.

Yes its a shame that this information can be so hard to come across. Your HV should be supporting you to bf for as long as you and your Lo want