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Weaning

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17 week old - too young to wean???

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emwad · 01/04/2007 22:19

My 17 wk DS has started waking up in the night (usually between 4-5am) for a feed, he has slept through for 5 wks. He has been feeding 4 times per day, and finishes 8oz quite easily. He weighes nearly 18lb (only 7 lb 12oz at birth).
My HV told me not to start weaning for at least 2-3 weeks but I've given him baby rice today and he munched loads as well as his usual 4x 8oz feeds, but now I feel awful incase I'm starting it too early.
What would you do?

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Manictigger · 03/04/2007 22:33

Just thought I vaguely remembered something about milk and constipation but maybe it is teething, she is dribbling a lot and gnawing on everything. Thanks anyway.

hunkermunker · 03/04/2007 22:36

Is it worth me reading this thread or has it all been said on both sides, by the usual suspects?

AitchTwoOh · 03/04/2007 22:43

everyone was well-behaved hunker. go the the weaning reserach thread, we're all playing nice over there too. [bored]

hunkermunker · 04/04/2007 00:02

Oh, crikey - will have to make inflammatory comments about....

No, can't muster anything. [weird]

jetjets · 04/04/2007 10:32

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tiktok · 04/04/2007 10:56

V. interesting, jets. Delayed weaning in hot weather was advocated 'cos there was a real worry that food, esp milk, could not be kept safe in those days. The stuff about special food I think probably reflects the middle class and upper class separation of 'the nursery' from the rest of the household, with rich families having nannies and nursemaids, and where the children ate separately from the adults - would that be why 'normal' food is delayed until the age of eight, as that might be the age when children were deemed to be presentable in general company?

Or maybe they wanted the kids out of the way when the ladeez were having all those liberating orgasms

jetjets · 04/04/2007 11:32

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tiktok · 04/04/2007 11:48

New curtains....maybe this would be a hygiene thing? Houses would be very dirty in those days of coal fires in every room, and fabric does trap dirt....so new curtains would mean a nice clean bedroom for the birth.

jetjets · 04/04/2007 13:13

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AitchTwoOh · 04/04/2007 15:32

how wonderful! i too am an advocate of sex in the fresh air. [fog smutty]

and i was captain canesten briefly when tiktok was being a superhero whose spangly pants gave her thrush. obviously.

AitchTwoOh · 04/04/2007 15:34

for the record i actually think the new curtains advice is sound, i always tell my pals to make their bedrooms into an oasis of blissed-out calm and loveliness when they are starting bfing as we'd just moved back into our flat when dd was born (bloody builders) so everything was a shitpit and not overly conducive to babymooning...

MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 15:39

[adds New Curtains to babystuff shopping list]

I love these vintage books - I have a super one from the 40s called Care Of Children From One to Three including a handy chapter about furnishing your nursery and dealing with 'native staff' if your husband is posted to the Colonies.

And MIL has just retired from 30 years of MW / HV / research nursing, so I actually have first editions of some of the very early Kitzingers and (iirc) the original 1950s Birth Without Fear...

AitchTwoOh · 04/04/2007 15:44

i used to have a teach yourself swahili book from the 20s. very handy if you wanted to translate 'beat that native until he bleeds' .

MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 15:50

I had a similar Italian one - 'Bring me some cream-laid writing paper' 'Send the butler in at once'

tiktok · 04/04/2007 15:54

I have a great babycare book from the 50s - shows a mother getting ready to breastfeed. She has a rubber apron on (WTF?), a hospital trolley beside her with sterilised cotton wool swabs, a jug of water, an alarm clock (to time the feeds - truly), and enough nappies and swaddling doo-dahs to sink the Titanic....

AitchTwoOh · 04/04/2007 15:55

are we not all wearing rubber aprons?

MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 15:56

were there step-by-step instructions on how to extract nork from confines of said apron?

tiktok · 04/04/2007 16:15

Just checked the pic....it seems nork trajectory is sideways out of the apron bib. She is holding nork in a scissor grip, so fingers will certainly get in the way of the latch.

Aitch, I think the apron rather suits you.

And so handy for the festishists' annual ball, too

jetjets · 04/04/2007 17:18

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MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 17:34

oh, don't, I'm at work and people think I'm mad hooting with laughter at my desk.

Even the astonishingly progressive (for its time) Birth Without Fear has a section called The Role Of The Father which dwells heavily on the making of refreshing cups of tea.

Actually I may have to post some extracts, they are so loopy that it makes you wonder what it must have been like before they got all spiritual about it.

(Though I still can't read about Leboyer and silent deliveries without thinking of Libby Purves 'swearing like a Billingsgate porter and punching her husband in the neck')

littleEasterlapin · 04/04/2007 17:38

Apron, anyone?

jetjets · 04/04/2007 17:47

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MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 17:51

'Give me gas! Give me pethidine! Get me a bloody anaesthetist! Bring me drugs!...

...but yes, a cup of tea would be lovely darling'

tiktok · 04/04/2007 18:46

Oooh, lurvley apron, lapin

The one in my pic seems to be made of groundsheet material - it's black and white so not sure of colour, but I imagine it is dark green.

Not black spots

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