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Weaning

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

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rant - just came back from baby clinic so angry i'm nearly crying!

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jetjets · 14/05/2007 15:30

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walbert · 14/05/2007 21:13

Ooh, this is all worrying me a bit: I've been weaning dd fr about 4 weeks, we have some solidy sort of stuff for breakfast, dinner and tea along with some milk (about 120 - 160ml) then a milk feed (about 200ml) before bed and, sigh, a lovely night feed of milk. Am I going to get told off by the hv for giving dd too much milk, or is this (sorry to use the dreaded and useless word) 'normal'? Weaning classes are crap, really, aren't they?!

whomovedmychocolate · 14/05/2007 21:14

My DD is on the 98th percentile - she's in real nappies which make her bum an inch off the ground and SHE'S STILL MANAGED TO DRAG HER ENORMOUS BUM OFF THE CARPET ROLL OVER AND CRAWL.

Your HV is an eejit. Ignore her!

Oh and she's not seven months yet.

walbert · 14/05/2007 21:15

Misdee, your chubbly bubbly baybee picture made me laff! Your dd is so cute!!!!!

mrsmalumbas · 14/05/2007 21:19

This thread made me so glad my two were born overseas and have never ever seen a health visitor in their entire lives and do you know what - they are thriving.

chilledmama · 14/05/2007 21:25

I'm ssoo . My DS is 7 months and only weighs about 16lbs!!!!! HVs think I'm starving him!!!!!!

poppetmum · 14/05/2007 21:26

The very fact he is on the percentiles means he is absolutely fine! Someone has to be on those percentles by definition!! (Incidentally, my DD1 had the opposite problem - she was on 0.4 percentile throughout which also upset the HV, but she is absolutely fine - we are just a very small family!!).

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jetjets · 14/05/2007 22:15

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soph28 · 14/05/2007 22:37

my dd is 10 months and weighs only 17lbs (she eats/drinks well) but has never rolled and can't crawl yet!!

ds (2) weighs only 25lbs and didn't walk till he was 16mo.

Basically weight has nothing to do with when they will sit/crawl/walk- they just do it when they can/want to.

I just smile, nod and lie to the HV and we get on really well

WriggleJiggle · 14/05/2007 22:43

Don;t worry about the rolling over thing. He may not roll over for weeks yet, he may suprise you and start crawling tomorrow. Babies are not logical little beasts, they do what they want when they want.

SofiaAmes · 14/05/2007 22:49

Oh how ludicrous. My ds (now 6.5) and my dd (now 4.5) and myself (now 43), were all crazily fat exclusively breastfed babies. And all of us are now naturally super thin. Forget the stupid percentile thing. It is some silly average that takes no account for genetics. My ds went from the 80th percentile to the 10th percentile for heigh and from the 90th to the 50th for weight over his first 5 years. Our family happens to produce short skinny guys who start out life as fat fat babies.
And so do not worry about the rolling over thing. My dd was crawling before she was rolling over. She just sat up and crawled way before she wasted time rolling around. HV kept going on and on and on about it. I would just smile sweetly and say yes, I'll try to work on it (!!)...seemed to make her happy.

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jetjets · 14/05/2007 22:53

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misdee · 14/05/2007 22:56

oh and my chubbly bubbly one was trying to roll at 2months, crawled at around 5-6months and was walking at 10months.

SofiaAmes · 14/05/2007 23:31

oh yeah, forgot to say that gp laughed hysterically when I told her that hv was concerned about dd not rolling over since dd was so clearly active and mobile and NOT a concern for anything except giving me a headache.

crunchie · 14/05/2007 23:52

HV are a pile of poo. My dd had te opposite problem t oyours in that she was tine, born extreamly prem at 27 weeks and the HV used to think it odd that she didn't even HIT The charts. IIRC at 1 yr she was 13 or 14 lbs max. The amount of times the 'failure to thrive' thing was suggested to me!! I just gave up in teh end, she was still being seen by a pediatrician who signed her off at around 2 when she still weighed less than yours does now or maybe a little more, who cares!! She is now 8 and still a dinky doll who eats well and who is all in proportion, ceratianly not too thin.

HV shoudl go boil their heads

madhousemother · 15/05/2007 00:12

I've not met a health visitor yet I've not whated to slap. I had opposite problem with first dd. My hv made me feel every time she was weighed that it was my fault she was always below the pink line. She's 5 now and still 'underweight', the only change is we don't see the hv anymore. Have second dd now and we don't bother going, shes only been weighed twice since being signed off by midwife. If I have a problem I'll ask someone who know what there talking about.

SofiaAmes · 15/05/2007 03:18

Oh yes and there was the time that the hv measured dd's length and she was so long she was off the chart, so hv told me that I must have done something wrong and clearly the last number put down for measurement was wrong too (hers, by the way), so she erased it and put a more appropriate one. I am still trying to figure out what it was that I could have done wrong to make dd so long....Do you think it was the stretching machine I put her in every night. Surely the hv couldn't have known about that.

welliemum · 15/05/2007 03:29

SofiaAmes.

Another mother of string beans here.

However I got away with it by never mentioning to the nurses that they were measuring the dds' lengths with knees bent... so on paper they looked OK, and that's what counts apparently.

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