now this weill set he catamongst the pigeons - WHOS advice is wrong to breastfeed for 6 motnths

[Dogsby]

as is based on developing coutnires

har har har

hehe
no i just HATE being told what to do by nay gorupw ho think they are right
i myslef obviously cna tlell other folk wilynilly

its the new years eve mentality franny

no i wont have a farking good tiem on nye cos you all say i HAVE to

no baby food hold no interest to me
just chuckled at this.

Nighty night - I fed a fecking enormous baby for nearly 7 months!

Am with F&Z on loving the fact that cod cares about this after all!!

makes perfect sense to me

Well I am with you on NYE, I can't fault you there

otherwise

[blows very mature raspberry]

hmm its cute thought but i dont, oyull haev to take my eery conscious word for that.

oi franny nyw thread started look and enjoy

"...there is the unending pressure to breast-feed and the seemingly unrealistic goal of keeping it up for six months...."

maybe it wouldn't be unrealistic if poeple who just fucking BACK OFF about it. why are we so fucking OBSESSED with giving babies solid food????????

arggggggggggg

cos they're people

cos we went the buggers to sleppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp p i suppose

balrdy bal it makes no difference
well you all think it will and hope against hope

Apparently, she reckons that the colour of the food you feed your babies is important:

"babies weaned on "beige" coloured diets and processed foods are more likely to favour "beige" carbohydrates such as white bread, doughnuts, biscuits and potato chips later in life" (not a direct quote from her, but presumably from the same studies that she mentions in her article).

So you can wean whenever you like but make sure the food is lots of colours or you're making a rod for your own back mark my words.

oh right. the SLEPPP thing.

i forgot that babies are supposed to sleep like adults. (dur)

god if they did i have 20

I like this bit

How to feed your child the BLW way

?? Don?t wait until your baby is six months old before introducing solids. Start at four months, when breast milk does not satiate him.

Which is so not what GR says...! At least not in anything I have seen.

What a load of cack.

It's true that almost all of the evidence they've based the advice on was from developing countries. I started a thread about it recently. You don't have to be a specialist in baby development to be able to read the studies and work that out for yourself.

The argument is that it doesn't harm your baby to feed exclusively for 6 months, but there are lots of things you could say that about. And I think that the 6 months advice thing is hugely counter-productive. It makes a lot of women give up bfing early because they can't face doing the exclusive 6 months thing. If they said breastfeed exclusively for 4-6 months I reckon more people would do it.

well i'm a bfer and blw from earlier than 6 monts and the article makes sense to me.

i was all set to wait til 6 months but my poor starving ds took matters into his own hands and started stealing food at 21 weeks!

i do hate all this bickering about what's 'right' or 'wrong' in terms of weaning.... why can't people just take their cues from their babies, some need earlier weaning and some need later.... just like some walk early and some late

have heard that claim janitor

did research

bf babies apparently get less iron but its in a more efficient form

babies DID survive in the wild pre weaning spoons

thats fine janitor but
fear of low iron is a common reason for stopping bfding. i do think its a common hv myth, and i wanted to set it straight.

Surely weaning is like everything else with children, there are no hard and fast rules. I suspect that most babies are probably about ready for solids around 6 months but for some it's earlier and some it's later.

I also think the allergy argument is a bit thin in hard evidence. My DD1 is allergic to LOADS of things, she was showing allergic symptoms BEFORE weaning (proteins passing into breastmilk). I belong to an allergy support group and all the multiallergic children I know showed symptoms before weaning.

Also can't bear this crap about iron levels in breastmilk not being enough after 6 months. My DD2 is 12 months and still hardly eats any solids at all. She refuses solids and is thriving on breastmilk, I am assuming that she knows fine well what she is doing.
If she needed solids she would eat them. She had a blood test recently for allergies and had iron levels checked too, they were of course fine.

My nephew on the other hand was weaned at, shock, horror, 4.5 months!!
He was hungry, he wanted solids, he was given them, he was much happier. My sister was reluctant to do it but is sure she did the right thing FOR HER BABY.

Arbitrary rules like 6 months or whatever may be guidelines but babies are individuals and some are ready sooner, others later. As a previous poster has said, if you follow your baby's cues and have a bit of common sense then you can probably work out for yourself what is best for your baby surely?

As we say with breastfeeding 'watch the baby not the clock' for weaning I would say 'watch the baby not the calandar or some parenting manual that some so called expert who may or may not know their stuff is trying to sell'.

oh fab, a weaning/breastfeeding debate, I love...