Weaning: Once you start can you stop?

[HelloMyNameIsMrsBloom]

I want to wait to wean DD until she's 6 months (She's 4 months now) but DM wants to wean her earlier. To please DM, we gave DD some baby rice yesterday. Can I still put weaning off or do I have to continue now it's started? DD has been unsettled all of today.

of course you can stop. Weaning isn't a straight line thing, I found it went backwards and forward until about 10 months. Some days, one meal, some days lots of little tasters, some weeks nothing was eaten, it always went off the menu when babies were ill or even if I was just travelling a lot one day.

Thank you FreeButtonBee I read on here that once you start the process you shouldn't stop, hence the confusion

I weaned DD1 at 5 months but she didn't want a spoon or any food in her mouth. I stopped after two days when I realised how stupid I was being, trying to get her to open her mouth, and started again at 6 months. She took to it like a duck to water the second time around.

I tried about 5 1/2 months and it was so difficult and we were going to go away over Christmas so we just stopped and in the January we realised that DS wouldn't have anything from a spoon. We switched to finger foods just being around every meal time and he sometimes had, sometimes ignored, sometimes played with until about 11 months when he suddenly started eating whole meals consistently.

Why are you giving your baby solids when you don't want to, just to please your mother? It's not her decision!

As per previous posters... I stopped and started feeding solids when we first began at around 5 1/2 months. They barely eat anything to begin with, and sometimes you are busy, or traveling or whatever so it is easier to stick with milk.