11wk baby and am already getting "have you started them on baby rice" question

[alex8]

I am already bored of explaining the reasons I am waiting till 6 months and I still have over 3 months of it to go! If I have to say well milk has more calories than fruit veg and rice again I'll scream. Maybe I'll get some leaflets printed instead.

ffs yes, between my bossy HV and my boyfriends mum going on bout early weaning DP mum never gave it a rest maintains she feed him banana and stuff from 1week

needless to say i have to try develop a serene nod when she imparts her advice when actually internally every fibre of me is screaming shutdafeckup

stuck to my guns weanned at 7ish month

my sister weaned her baby at 14 weeks, and my niece is SO fat, any connection? My DD who is the same age, i waited until 6 months - and of course my DD is perfect

i weaned at 20 weeks - sooner than i'd wanted to but he was showing all the signs and was much happier. my mil drove me nuts though as from about 10 weeks she kept going on and on about solids and telling us about putting rusks in her boy's bottles " ...and it never did them any harm!". yeh, right, so why did they have horrendous asthma and allergies then?!
her reason that my ds "needed" solids was that he cried after he was fed. what she didn't get was that he was tired and wanted to be put down and left alone! aaaarrrrgh!

My HV harranged me to weaning ds - he was around 3-4 months. At the time i questioned it and was made ot feel foolish. He was unhappy baby breatfeed and good weight. Wish i had stuck to my instincts as weaning was stressful as he wasnt really interested. My HV said he was a 'lazy' baby not wanting to wean as drinking milk requires little effort. HE is now 7 so i guess the advice has now changed. Now preg and loking forward to following my instincts with dc2

never mind 12 weeks, my mil was told with no argy bargy ' you will never feed such a large baby, put rice in his bottle FROM DAY 2'. Funnily enough, lo, the prophecy thus stated was fulfilled... she lasted 3 weeks bf.

he and his brother were both thoroughly atopic in their childhoods. I hate mentioning that as I know it's only anecdotal evidence. But still.

Good for my mil that she never went on about early weaning to me.

Oddly, I've had pressure from health visitors and other 'professionals'. DD is 4 months and the advice at our postnatal group was "anytime from 17 weeks". When someone said they thought the guidelines were 6 months, the HV said that "very few children last till then and they only changed the advice because everyone was doing it earlier than they said - ie when they said 4 months, "everyone" was weaning at 3". I understand the arguments for waiting till 6 months - medical and practical - but it really doesn't help when the local professionals are undermining the govt guidance; as I've learnt with so many things, the only thing to do is to trust your own instincts and go with what you feel is right - scary, but seemingly more reliable!

say, no, you are waiting so that you can put him straight on steak and chips.

wemmicks - this is what i am dreading as it happens alot. Old school tending to undermine new evidence.

My big chubby boy has lasted 20 weeks so far, getting him weighed on Monday but he was 17lb 4 at 15 weeks

mmmmm, dd loved steak and chips when she was 6 months. true story.

I've had a nursery manager AND my GP acting a bit surprised when I said that my 11 week old wasn't on solids! The GP said "Well sometime in the next few weeks..."
It's a bit confusing when those "in the know" don't seem to know!