help! peer group weaning pressure driving me nuts!

[charlieropersmum]

All my contemporaries seem to be weaning their 4 month -ish babies and my mum and sister weaned babies at 3 months. I seem to spend every day fending off Q's about why I haven't started ds on solids yet. He's exclusively breast fed and a big boy who has been sleeping 7.30pm to 7am. I reckon he must be doing ok. BUT he's been a monkey in the night two nights running and now dh is putting on some pressure. I would rather feed him in the night again and more often in the day but is that bad for a growing tummy if it wants proper food???

[Tatties]

Oh, and if you like, skip the purees altogether when you do start, and do baby-led weaning. Loads of threads on here about it. It's great - much less work and lots of fun.

[nineinchnipples]

I only started to ween ds when he was just over 6 months, that was only because he started to grab dds (21 months) food and her spoon too, he is 7 months now and still has 4-5 bfs a day as well as 3 'meals'(most ends up on the floor or in his eyebrows) and he is still waking in the night, I think its partly for comfort feed, partly teething and partly cos he knows I love his cuddles!! I agree with Tatties only you know what he wants and needs so go with what you feel

[CountTo10]

Coming in a bit late but echoing other points you must always do what is right for lo and from the sounds of it he's fine. You'll know when he's ready and then you can go from there. Mum always knows best!!! You're the mum now and the best advice I ever received was to listen to your instincts!

[Tatties]

I felt so guilty that I couldn't be arsed weaning ds! But the endless pureeing veg and freezing it in icecube trays was just soul destroying and pointless when he didn't want to eat it. Such a relief when it dawned on me that it was ok for him to just have a bit of what I was having...

[charlieropersmum]

I think I'll definitely wait it out as long as I can. Fed him in the night last night for the first time in 10 weeks but it seems he was hungry. Mind you I was up from 1 til 3.30am with him. BUt today he took his new boob shaped bottle for the first time so things are looking up on that front. Perhaps he realised his mummy was at the end of her tether!

[PigeonPie]

CRM, just a thought, but your ds might well be going through a growth spurt - I certainly remember my ds having a big one at about 4 months and waking in the night. I didn't start weaning him till he was about 6 months and I'm afraid he's still waking in the night for a feed at 9 months - I figure sleep for me is over-rated though!

[deaconblue]

He's finally agreed to take a bottle so I've given him an extra 4oz at lunch and bed time as well as his normal breast feed so I'm hoping that will get him over this growth spurt thing. He slept til 5am last night so it seems to have worked a bit. I wonder if hunger has been why he's been a bit grizzly lately, I thought it was coz he wants to be able to sit and move about and is rubbish at both, so was getting frustrated but I have to say he's been less grumpy today too.