For all lovely first time mummies nervous about weaning...

[littleEasterlapin]

... please don't be put off by all the silly arguments we have. You don't have to align yourself with a weaning camp or philosophy, even if it sometimes seems that way.

Whether you choose to puree, do BLW/finger food or a combination of the two, or just do whatever works for you, you will get plenty of support and good advice here. The MN posters have literally thousands of years of experience between them.

Don't be afraid to post .

Nice message little. thank you

I thought we needed some love in the weaning section

Best advice I think anyone could be given!!!

You're such a big softie cheesy-fur .

yay !!

can you feel , the luuuurve tonight....

Am holding my lighter aloft.....
Great message little fluffy one - I agree 100 per cent.

cheesy-fur!!!! choccy-fur at this time of year, thank you VERY much.

[links arms with lulumama, sways back and forth]

(How is lulu, BTW, hope the noggin is OK! DS tried to fly the other day (caught him by the foot) - I thought of you!)

hear, hear, littlelapin. good post.
you know, despite the fact that i was clearly supposed to know what to do about weaning just because i am a mum, i didn't, and i was anxious about it. that's what led me to MN in the first place, many moons ago.
i now know that it's not rocket science, but that's not necessarily what i felt at the time.

i'm sorry that this bickering always breaks out, it's embarrassing.

to anyone starting out, the good news is that if you wait til 6 months you'll probably find that you can give finger foods. whether you do that with purees or without or whether you don't give any finger foods for a while, it's not a matter of political conviction and nothing is set in stone.

in the end, milk makes up the bulk of babies' nutrition for the first year so you do have some time to find the best way for you and your baby, whatever that may be. and the whole weaning thing? over in a blink of an eye let me tell you...

And by about 12 months, they're all on fruit shoots and mcdonalds..... aren't they

I still don't know what a fruit shoot is... is it one of those fruit leather things?

No, tis a drink

Oh OK. I'm guessing a fruity one

DS doesn't have fruit juice yet, so haven't been exposed to them - I'm sure I will be!

They taste truly vile (sweetners etc) and the kind of thing that some people hand out because it's got fruit in the name... so it must be good....
Anyway enought chuntering from me. It was a truly lovely message and I am beginning to think there must be some dark secret in the lapin closet because you seem so truly lovely!

I made the most basic mistake of any weaning mother tonight

I failed to notice that my DS had hung my coat over the back of the highchair - thank everything that it is machine washable

And you're a fellow forces wife and everyone knows we're normally grumpy old bags!

Who is a fellow forces wife?

littlelapin is

bubble wrap?! [paranoid] why bubble wrap?

B'coz you have had far too much flack [sp?] today.

oh, cheers... a stiff drink might do the trick. is the bar open?

and I love you (because you have changed the way I feed my DD, and you try sooooo hard to be reasonable, and you get so much stress for all the wrong reasons because people don't listen to the reasons why you have to point out the differences between blw and stuff and all of that and I have run out of punctuation and I don't care but i still think you are lovely

scootergirl... my skeleton is.... DS sleeps in a kennel outside... but it is made of sustainable wood!

I is Navy Wiff, NormaStanleyFletcher.

And I think Aitch needs lots of hugs after today. My DS definitely eats better because of her (and he fancies BabyBear )

I is a RAF wiff (to bee)

Lapin - and if DS is outside, surely you can turn the heating down inside thus saving on carbon emmissions..
Have missed the early threads but surely as long as children are fed well and healthily, it should be ok...........