i weaned early and i cant rememebr when cos i haev a LIFE

[OrvilleRedenbacher]

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how else do mothers of older kids get there kicks if it isnt taking the piss and winding up ott mums!!

elclose how do you know mums are over the top?Just because they are genuinely fretful for the care of their children in my book older mums should give the benefit of their experience (after all we have all been through the experience of first time motherhood)speaking as a first time mum you need all the help you can get

I can't even Bloody remember.
and ds is only 3. I do rememeber using farleys rusks.
SINNER
Not as bad as baby rice though, so that's o.k.

God yes, dd is 2, so it's all quite recent for me, and I never ever look at weaning threads - yaaaaaawn

'older mums should give the benefit of their experience'

Well deb, ime 'older mums' actually do that on mn all the time. Are they not allowed to have some fun as well?

I know both DS's were around 4 months when I weaned them - this one will be weaned anytime from 4 months too.........just like with my first when I know they're ready....because it'll be my baby and I'll know them better than anyone else..... so FART

OK - so at least one person thinks a better word would be 'irritated'.

I think a discussion of why other people wean when they do is perfectly ok - no one has to read it, or join in. I think it's fair to ask that question 'why?' and fair to point out guidelines and the research behind them.

What isn't fair is saying 'oh, now you have made me feel guilty and rubbish' when what is really meant is 'irritated' and 'angry'.

lostinfrance - I have no idea about instinct-led parenting. I cannot imagine we know about weaning through instinct. What makes you ask?

"I cannot imagine we know about weaning through instinct."

why wouldn't we know about weaning through instinct? What did they do in the days before books, internet, TV and MN??? They went by instinct......

Fannieannie, no they didn't! Human beings have always lived in families, communities and groups, and they learn from each other.

This is what happens with all higher mammals.

but surely to start with it was through instinct???

i can't remembe when at all

i think i left it until they could crawl for the take away left overs themorning after

I am shocked that more and more threads seem to get so nasty.
I'm sure that it is getting worse and I don't think I am imagining this.

I have a feeling that dd just started swiping stuff from our plates so it was around then that she was weaned. And I did blw through default because I was too lazy to puree stuff so she use to gum broccoli and such like. So instinctively I was a superior parent

Custy didn't they order their own curry aswell ?

Actually I think some people do feel guilty - the reasons given for the change of guidelines is that earlier weaning damages your child. Parents, mums mainly, feel bad that they may have done that, albeit unknowingly.

Lol at Custy!

pmsl @ Custy - blw at it's best

Saggar - I'm not talking about people who find out what they did is no longer standard. Maybe they do feel guilty (though if they did what they thought was right, there's no need, surely).

I was responding to Massive, who said people may wean on medical advice, and then come onto mumsnet and read a discussion about it being early, and then feel 'guilty and rubbish' because of what people on a talkboard are discussing.

I suggested this was not really what they were feeling - claiming 'guilt' is a way of saying 'you should not say what you are saying', and I think it's not totally honest. Be irritated, be angry, whatever....but don't claim 'guilt'.

Oh, fuck off.

Cod, it must be great never to care about anything and just mock other people all the time.

Just fuck off.

Hunker, that is a bit much, there are plenty of us on here who don't care that much about weaning and while it is obviously important to you, it is not all this site is about. Cod is having a laugh about a thread that got way out of hand.

Your passion about weaning will inspire lots of people but your zeal is in danger of isolating people too.

That's not fair hunker - that's too strong.

Nah, fuck the lot of you.

I would love a 'without weaning' box

not that I am bored with it - I still post on new mums breastfeeding as I remember how horrid it was and I am sooooo over b/f - but weaning is just so repetitive and competitive

and hunker - wash your mouth out