It's not rocket science - "it may cause harm to wean early, it does no harm to leave it till 6m" - WHY do people still want to shovel baby rice in at 12 weeks (or earlier)?

[hunkermunker]

I have come up with some ideas as to why people wean early:

they have competitive baby syndrome and are annoyed someone else's baby rolled first, so they want to get theirs onto steak and chips via baby rice and one fruit or veg a week for months

Well, an idea. Any more?

Got to go - my 14mo who's slept through twice since birth has just woken up.

I'm not getting into sleep deprivation and knackered and terrible things happening due to lack of sleep - been there, got the skeggy t-shirt.

ah, only 12 more blissful days of giving a stuff for me then

HC, you'd beat me hands-down I think....although tough call between you and Hunker. And HuniBuni too apparently.

hatrick thankyou I currently have DD2 asleep on my chest as she wont go down in crib..lol Will just take her into our bed when I go up and will no doubt be joined by Ds later..only DD1 sleeps in her own bed but she wakes at least once a the min thanks to 4 molars at once

Nemo none of mine slept through for ages, just the way they are Feeding ds2 now

oh god is that what a stoma is

i havent had an undisturbed night in over 7 years [yawns]

i should really go to bed now lol.

Nemo - we co-sleep too

fraid so, harpsi. tragic, isn't it?

think we should all be in bed...fools for staying upp

bloody hell, that's appalling aitch, I had no idea.

vvv - love your pics

AitchTwoOh! I had a tough time, made more difficult because I wanted to be the perfect mum.

Babies have been around a long time before this prouncement re:6 months exclusive milk diet. Don't think I could cope with all the rules and regs surrounding bringing up babies now.

Its not hard to just do nuthin, imvho.

Nally - thank you

my friend can't work because of her terrible, terrible crohns so she volunteers to visit newly diagnosed people if they have questions, and is now seeing more and more children with bags.
she's on a feed system, liquids every morning, the longest living person in the world on this type of feed. she is The Single Most Amazing Person i have ever met. She told me she'd throttle me if i weaned dd before 6 months, just not a risk worth taking imo.

southeastra ~ I agree totally.

Mine are both over 5 and to be honest all the baby stuff is so irrelevant.

I was fed rice in a bottle at 10 weeks and do not have any probs! My mum also used to nip a bit of whisky in to get me to sleep...

VVV agree and Aitch Don't know why anyone risks it

look, here's frascati proving twinklemegan's point

probably best we don't get into a discussion about the utter normality of 'extended' bfing in most cultures, hunie, and the fact that weaning when the child starts picking up food just so obviously makes more sense.

What is the statistical risk of a child weaned before 6 months developing chrohns disease?

All the recent stuff I've read advises to start to wean between 4 and 6 months on the assumption that some types of food will be introduced at 4 months and some later.
At what stage between depending on the individual child. Sorry but there is no absolute 6 months magic marker, anymore than there is for any developmental stage.

dunno. not one worth taking if it's my baby, zookeeper.

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How recent?

zookeeper, how much of a risk would you be prepared to take?
why just not weait until after six months, and reduce the risk as far as possible?

harpsi ~ ???