Is my baby ready? Advice please!!!

[pops79]

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!

Oh aitch.........

I actually feel smug too - and I never feel smug on a weaning thread (despite what folk think)

Pops - waiting wont harm, more calories in milk. Hand your baby a stick of lightly cooked carrot and if they grab it, and grip it properly, stick it in their mouth, bite and chew and swallow - they are ready.

Sorry there have been norty rabbleraisers on your thread....

Trolling = deliberately posting on an internet forum in an agressive, outrageous or foolish way, in order to provoke other posters.

Rabbleraiser - trolling means deliberately setting out to cause trouble. Actually I think you've just had a bad day and of course you're entitled to your opinion.

My ds2 is 16 week on thursday, he weighed 17lb 4 today, watches us eat, grabbed a roll from my plate and tried to put it in his mouth (he nearly got it there), sits for a couple of seconds alone and opens his mouth and grabs for the spoon when we give him infant gaviscon for reflux. I don't think he needs food yet though. I bf on demand and he does eat a lot and often but I'll be waiting a bit longer still. Ds1 was the same and he weaned at 6 months.

Thank you Twinkle. I had no idea what it meant. Certainly didn't intend to follow that path, but I got a bit of hefty muscle thrown my way and felt the need to respond.

Having a bad day, obviously, but no name change will result.