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Is my baby ready? Advice please!!!

81 replies

pops79 · 30/04/2007 20:35

My little boy is 19 weeks old. Over the past few days he has started waking more frequently in the night...drooling like a maniac....crying (hard) at the end of bottles, demanding more frequent feeds and greedily eying up everyone else's food at the table.

I've already increased all of his feeds (he's on formula) but it doesn't seem to have made any difference...infact it seems to be getting worse!

I'm reading that I shouldn't start introducing other food until 6 months but I'm thinking that he might be ready now. Any advice or comments would be really welcome!

OP posts:
tiktok · 30/04/2007 22:40

No one has criticised your decision to do what you wanted to do and felt was right with your child, rabble.

All they have done is asked you not to be dogmatic about someone else's.

And playing the ethnic card when asked to desist about Nazis and Gestapo....pathetic. You may not be offended at the use of these terms but others certainly are.

You're trolling.

rabbleraiser · 30/04/2007 22:40

Yeah, right.

Some people find farting offensive these days.

tiktok · 30/04/2007 22:44

?

chocolatekimmy · 30/04/2007 22:44

Mothers know best - hhmmm, rather a sweeping statement that is often very untrue for a variety of reasons.

Pops, I suggest you read WHO guidelines and supporting reports (bit long winded) to gain a full understanding of the reasons they recommend 6 months to start weaning and then make your own decision.

My daughter started waking again at night and showed lots of signs for wanting food at around 18 weeks however I just dealt with that difficult stage and managed to get through it. Even when I started weaning it took about 3/4 weeks before she started sleeping through again.

Based on what I learnt from reading various stuff I think I did the right thing for her - even though I suffered for several weeks. Definately worth it though

rabbleraiser · 30/04/2007 22:48

Read my latter post, TicTok.

I have more reason to be offended by Nazis than you have and I don't need a fucking PC lecture from you.

I weaned my kid at five months. I have had approbrium heaped on my head for it. I am entitled to freedom of speech, and the last time I looked, referring to the Gestapo was not a criminal offence.

I have been made to feel like a leper. The OP has been largely ignored. It's people who follow the herd-like instinct who most welcome 'them' in.

CantSleepWontSleep · 30/04/2007 22:49

A farleys rusk rabble? Have you ever actually read the ingredients on a packet of rusks? Great first food - NOT!

rabbleraiser · 30/04/2007 22:51

Yeah well, if you can't sleep, there must be a reason why. Perhaps you need some enumbers.

rabbleraiser · 30/04/2007 22:53

And there should have been a comma after rusk.

Twinklemegan · 30/04/2007 22:53

Surely rabbleraiser is a troll? If not, RR why are you being so aggressive?

chocolatekimmy · 30/04/2007 22:54

Rabble, You have said goodnight all already so why don't you stop winding yourself up?

CantSleepWontSleep · 30/04/2007 22:54

Oh yes, and kimmy is really made of chocolate and tiktok is really a clock .

rabbleraiser · 30/04/2007 22:56

I don't know what a troll is in modern parlance.

And I'm just fighting my corner. I didn't answer the OP with the knowledge that this would happen. The OP wanted to know if she should introduce solids. I said she should.

If you want to sit back and think you're not being aggressive, so be it. But you are getting a vicarious thrill out of my discomfort. Safety in numbers and all that.

Bethbe · 30/04/2007 22:57

POPs - I'm sorry this thread has gone all wierd. There are LOADS of threads on this subject so perhaps do a search as well as reading the guidelines and make sure you are happy with your decision!

My decision to wean early was supported by HVs, I got not only a second oppinion, but a fourth and that included a breastfeeding councilllor.

Perhaps offer some un-interfered-with milk on a spoon (first baby-rice feeds are so liquidy anyway) and see if your LO is able to figure out how to get it to the back of the throat and swallow!?

Hope you find threads that are a bit more helpful - good luck!

chocolatekimmy · 30/04/2007 22:57

Yawn

berolina · 30/04/2007 22:57

There is no need to 'speak' to Tiktok (or anyone here) like that, rr. Nobody has heaped opprobrium (if we're correcting grammar/spelling...) on you - goodness knows alot of mothers here have weaned at 5 months and earlier -, but simply argued their point as to why they believe (as I do) the WHO guidelines worth heeding.

tiktok · 30/04/2007 22:59

rabble, you have no knowledge of whether I can be personally offended by references to Nazis or not. I did not lecture you. No one has made you feel like a leper, apart from asking you not to be dognatic about someone else's kid.

I think you must be trolling.

Twinklemegan · 30/04/2007 23:00

Well I know I'm not being aggressive. I've just read the thread and been surprised by the tone of your posts - you do sound like you're spoiling for a fight. None of my business I know, but I feel sorry for the OP who's probably been frightened off the thread. But I've just read that you've had a bad day so maybe I've just made it worse?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 30/04/2007 23:00

How have you been made to feel like a leper? On here?

You are being particularly aggressive for reasons I cannot fathom.

I cant believe this kicked off and Hunker or I werent on it

[proud]

AitchTwoOh · 30/04/2007 23:02

and i was nowhere to be seen, either, vvv. it feels weird. RR appears to be having a fight with herself...

Bethbe · 30/04/2007 23:02

POPs - I'm sorry this thread has gone all wierd. There are LOADS of threads on this subject so perhaps do a search as well as reading the guidelines and make sure you are happy with your decision!

My decision to wean early was supported by HVs, I got not only a second oppinion, but a fourth and that included a breastfeeding councilllor.

Perhaps offer some un-interfered-with milk on a spoon (first baby-rice feeds are so liquidy anyway) and see if your LO is able to figure out how to get it to the back of the throat and swallow!?

Hope you find threads that are a bit more helpful - good luck!

Bethbe · 30/04/2007 23:03

POPs - I'm sorry this thread has gone all wierd. There are LOADS of threads on this subject so perhaps do a search as well as reading the guidelines and make sure you are happy with your decision!

My decision to wean early was supported by HVs, I got not only a second oppinion, but a fourth and that included a breastfeeding councilllor.

Perhaps offer some un-interfered-with milk on a spoon (first baby-rice feeds are so liquidy anyway) and see if your LO is able to figure out how to get it to the back of the throat and swallow!?

Hope you find threads that are a bit more helpful - good luck!

rabbleraiser · 30/04/2007 23:04

Like I said, I have no idea what trolling means.

I agree with Bethbe, this thread has gone very weird and my intention all along has been to support the OP. Obviously I was not tactful enough at the outset, and I regret for the OP that this has become all about me.

By all means take the advice that is to hand. But as I said in an earlier post, advice on child-rearing shifts with the sands, so follow your instincts.

If you think he's ready, then in my opinion, he is. I certainly draw a line under four months, and as long as you can drag it out after that, the better. But with mine, it was five months.

And it was a Farleys Rusk. Any further objections?

AitchTwoOh · 30/04/2007 23:04

oh, and pops. see if you can ride it out a while longer, you're still a way away from the 6 month mark. as it happens i take a degree more latitude on the dates (say a fortnight or so) and i might offer some finger foods then as an experiment with my child, but there's still a while to go yet. good luck, whatever you decide to do.

PippiLangstrump · 30/04/2007 23:06

My mum weaned me completely from the bottle - she only breastfed for a week or so, no milk apparently - at 4 mo based on advice at the time.
none of us (two brothers and me have had any allergies, sickness etc - none at all zero)

i breast fed and weaned at 5/6 monthds. I don't know and I am not going to care. I know I did it when i should have and I knew it!

RR I am with you in this one. Mums do not know best all the time and for everything but Jesus people relax! 5 months instead of 6...

AitchTwoOh · 30/04/2007 23:06

to be fair, rabble, advice on childrearing tends to shift with the research, rather than the sands...