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Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

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

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littleEasterlapin · 22/03/2007 19:29

... 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 .

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Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 22:43

And I is army wiff - hey, we're a tri-service thread!

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littleEasterlapin · 22/03/2007 22:46

woo hoo, anyone got a bootneck?

Liking the carbon emission theory

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AitchYouBerk · 22/03/2007 22:46

my DH was in the scouts... that's Just Not Good Enough, is it? thanks ladies, btw.

Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 22:49

It's a uniform isn't it? I imagine it's not as sexy as the army blues but come on over!

NormaStanleyfEGGcher · 22/03/2007 22:51

Ohhh .. the best uniform he has is the FIREMAN one - when he covered in the strike

NormaStanleyfEGGcher · 22/03/2007 22:53

and aitch - read my "i love aitch" post a little further down.

FFS - you even named me!

Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 22:53

Great! I quite like DH's desert kit.... Sorry, this was supposed to be a nice thread about weaning

AitchYouBerk · 22/03/2007 22:56

i did read it... i appreciate it, that was kind. i'd really better go off and finish my work.

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littleEasterlapin · 22/03/2007 22:58

Oh no, mess kit is the best, bum freezer jackets... although I have some pics of DH in greens during Op Telic... woof...

Hmm, anyway, so what we are saying, lovely mummies, is we can help you with weaning AND military men look great in uniform!

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Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 22:59

Exactly - look at the lovely men in uniform and you won't care what your DCs are eating

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littleEasterlapin · 22/03/2007 23:04

Lol

Actually DS tried to eat DH's epaulettes this evening!

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Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 23:05

DS snotted on DH's beret...

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littleEasterlapin · 22/03/2007 23:07

is it a red one?

{we really should start another thread!)

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Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 23:13

Just bog-standard dark green. He does refer to himself as having been fotgwot (on the frontline of the global war on terror - don't they love abbreviations!) after being in Kabul but it cuts no ice with me!

Scootergirl · 22/03/2007 23:13

Actually it might be navy blue

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littleEasterlapin · 22/03/2007 23:16

fotgwot - like it.

We are well up on the old TLAs (three letter acronyms). My favourite, though, is one I picked up in the City and taught DH;

BOBFOC.

Body off Baywatch, Face off Crimewatch.

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littleEasterlapin · 23/03/2007 11:03

just thought I'd bump this... ignore the brief military diversion and go back to the OP

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Gemmitygem · 24/03/2007 17:40

hello,
I'm a 'lovely' first time mummy, DS is nearly 6 months, I've been giving him lots of different veg, fruit, baby rice and baby buckwheat for the last 2 weeks, he LOVES it! definitely prefers the fruit so probably has his mum's sweet tooth . Otherwise he's breastfed. I have been pureeing and feeding him with a spoon, but let him kind of claw the food and put it in his mouth as well. He gets very annoyed when I take the spoon away because he thinks food flows directly from the spoon so doesn't understand why there is a gap of reloading time! He quite likes to get control of the spoon, but then gets fed up when there's nothing on it, so I kind of put more on it while he's holding it, and then he's happy. He opens his mouth eagerly and gollops it down, then when he has had enough kind of purses his lips. He still has most of his milk first.

anyway this is just a non-BLW experience, prob in line with my more traditional routiney mothering style. It's definitely mummy led, but more just showing him different stuff and of course he doesn't have to eat anything but just likes it and likes trying the new things..

would like to chat with other current weaners, specially those on a routine, see how we're all doing! and experienced mums for useful tips!

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littleEasterlapin · 24/03/2007 17:47

you don't sound as though you need help, you're doing fabulously! What on earth is baby buckwheat, though?!

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mears · 24/03/2007 17:48

I have 4 children but absolutely no experience of BLW. With my last baby I waited till 6 months ( I was really confident then). Missed out baby rice wall paper paste and she was fed from a spoon as were her 3 brothers. Breastfed on demand in between. Very quickly progressed to 3 meals a day, all with milk. Once she was 7-8 months I stared dropping milk at meal times but she breastfed whenever she wanted in between. With first baby I was very rigid and only breastfed at meal times when he was on solids. He had juice (horro) in between meal times.

Oldest is 20yrs old now. DD is 13 years. No problems with meals until they hit teenage years

Gemmitygem · 24/03/2007 18:01

I'm in former Soviet Union, (central Asia), so they tailor the baby food to the local market. I wouldn't use jars or whatever, but I use the baby cereal cos it's supposedly organic (Hipp), and they have rice or buckwheat (like a dark grain, really yummy!) I love it myself actually. I don't think it grows in the UK..

re the military men, I can assure you they don't look great in uniform here! They wear big saucer style policemen's hats in a lovely shade of turquoise! Good for frisbee I spose...

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littleEasterlapin · 24/03/2007 18:25

LOL Gemmitygem .

That's interesting, have you found they have different ideas about weaning where you are? I was saying the other day, I couldn't find a resource that discussed weaning practises in various countries, I'd be fascinated to know what they do in Japan, for example.

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PinkTulips · 24/03/2007 18:43

lovely post lapin

and another hug from me for aitch, i feel so sorry for her when i see those damn threads as if people actually bothered to read her posts instead of reading the first 3 words and jumping down her throat they'd realise what she's saying is incredibly well informed and eloquently put to boot. not something many people can manage!

thanks to her ds is the easiest baby to feed and is so happy to eat and even better i'm still breastfeeding properly whereas when dd was this age we were down to only 4 feeds in 24 hours and it was so wrong for her but i didn't know any better i'm not saying purees were to blame, but my whole style of feeding was and thanks to the great advice on MN ds is getting so much better and healthier a start than she did

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littleEasterlapin · 24/03/2007 19:05

I'm still BFing too, planned to stop at 6 months... then 9 months... now he's 1 in 2 weeks and I have at last managed to drop a feed! Woo hoo!

Only 3 more to go

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mears · 24/03/2007 19:17

Should have said I would have had a go at BLW had I known anything about it at the time. We all ahve different parenting methods and none are wrong. Great to skills share on MN

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