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

158 replies

OrvilleRedenbacher · 09/04/2007 09:29

all kids alive
no allergieshealth issues/skin cpmlaints

OP posts:
mamazon · 10/04/2007 23:35

i thought this was a thread to say look weening is a personal choice between you and your baby, follow guidlines/dont follow guidlines, whatever just dont get o bloody angry about each other's choices...or at least don't do it on here.

I hadn't seen it as a dog at anyone in particular and i apologise if anything i have sauid has been taken as such.

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:36

pppfffft! like hunker could stay away... she'd not flounce, it's not her style.

wellimum, as ever, i hail you as a voice of reason and a wee bit of a goddess. and twinkle and vvv and others. and colditz, i guess you and me will just have to wear the fact that we were accused of being bullies with no way of defending ourselves.

for the record, i've rooted out the thread that i think prompted hunker's OP, and i can rather see why she was fulminating about it. i'm not going to post a link as, you know, all hell would break loose. suffice it to say someone was saying their baby was 9 weeks and they were going to start weaning soon as they'd heard that you can start as early as 8. someone responded that they'd heard that too but that they were going to wait until 12 weeks to be on the safe side. lots of 'the guidelines change all the time' stuff...

now, on the one hand, why should anyone care what two strangers are going to do with their baby? on the other, HOW are people still being given this sort of info and acting on it? which, albeit more vehemently, is actually what hunker's OP was asking.

i suppose she could have gone onto that thread and pointed out the WHO guidelines (just to be sure that people had heard them, tbh) but that has caused wars before. plus, someone else on the thread was doing her best to anyway... she knows who she is... . and well done to her for trying, btw.

i really don't know what the best thing to do is under those circumstances... completely ignore it as it's really no-one's business? i think it's very tricky, really.

and had hunker's OP been taken for what it was, rather than as a slur on other people's parenting styles (i do think a more moderate title would have helped) then it would have been absolutely fascinating to find out what early weaners really do think about potential risks when they start giving their child food. another time, maybe...

lou33 · 10/04/2007 23:36

aitch, i am impressed you can write so well at this time of night

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:38

funnily enough, this is when i work. i actually get a Proper Second Wind at about 2am. be afraid, darksiders...

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:40

I weaned early, too, because the guidelines then were 4 months.

I formula fed from day 2, too.

This was for DD1.

She's got no allergies, skin issues, whatever.

She's skinny as a rake - built just like her dad, tall and lean.

lou33 · 10/04/2007 23:43

lol aitch

guidelines were 3m when dd1 was a babe, hv told me to wean her because she was always so hungry

VeniVidiVickiQV · 10/04/2007 23:44

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dont start posting your stories.....people will fall asleep expat

Tell me more about your ghostwriting. I am fascinated....

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:44

see below, expat, i don't think 4 months is 'early' in the context of the first OP, although i know it became so. in fact i personally think that the whole 4-6 months is a lot more blurry cos i am a BLWer.
anyway, when are you reporting to the Home Office to beg for the continuing privilege of Being Scottish? wanna play?

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:45

absolutely, lou, if i hadn't been told about the 4-month growth spurt then dd woudl deffo have been on solids then. couldn't believe how much she was taking...

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:46

Well, it's like this, VVV: some people need help and I provide it to them.

For a fee.

I sort of fell into it one night long ago in the university study lounge and never stopped.

Now, it's a tidy side income.

In fact, I wanted to run a plotline by Aitch.

It's way out there, but I think I might be able to get it to work if I'm crafty enough, which is a big IF.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 10/04/2007 23:47

So you ghostwrite fiction then?

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:49

'some people need help and i provide it to them'. very chandleresque. those of us who know about these sorts of things have already clicked that expat is a professional killer.

lou33 · 10/04/2007 23:49

dd1 is 15 tomorrow, 5ft 10, size 10, 36 inch inside leg

she was a right pudding when a baby tho

lou33 · 10/04/2007 23:49

is she?

hey expat, we need to speak

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:50

I haven't ghostwritten fiction, VVV, although that is a very subjective term .

My clients come to me via word of mouth ONLY and they agree to my terms. In writing.

I work on a per piece, semester, course or academic year basis.

Research is charged separately, but the required advanced notice is longer, for obvious reasons.

What I sell is purchased as a reference only, but I've never had a failing mark yet, let's just say .

If you've heard about me in such a way as to come to me, well, you've come to the right place.

Cash only. In advance.

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:51

I wish I were a professional killer.

There's a lot more money in that .

Like Aitch, I am a nightowl, and I do my best work well past midnight.

lou33 · 10/04/2007 23:52

i know that's code for email you

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:52

Aitch, I sent you an email yesterday .

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:53

it is, lou, it is! just email her and all your problems will 'go away', sweetcheeks.

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:55

Let's face it, folks, most problems can be made to go away. For a fee.

Money talks. Bullshit walks.

welliemum · 10/04/2007 23:55

Aah, Aitch, you do say the nicest things!

I agree with you (again - is this a cleak then?) that there's a dilemma here.

You see people planning to do somethign which you think is a Bad Idea. And they haven't heard that it might be a Bad Idea. And - the killer for me - if it turns out to be a Bad Idea, it is a child that will suffer.

But it's not your child.

So, do you give them some unsolicited advice? You're interfering where you have no right to.

Do you sit on your hands? You're knowingly allowing possible harm to happen to a child.

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:56

see? [now terrified]

lou33 · 10/04/2007 23:56

excellent

that's what i'm talking about baby

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:57

Wellie, this is a website.

If some random stranger on a website told you jumping off a bridge was a good idea, would you take that bit of unsolicited advice and do it?

AitchTwoOh · 10/04/2007 23:57

that was to expat, btw. although not entirely innappropriate for wellie.

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