How many babies make it to 6 months on milk alone?

[ThomasTankEngine]

My HV says only 2 in 500.

I am struggling with a DS at 15 weeks, at 16lb, so far fully BF.
Anyone have any accurate figures?

And what percentage of MUMs are BLW-ing?

She's written 14 books about pureeing carrots and pushing parsnips through a sieve.

Can't she just rest on her mushy laurels?!

have a look, hunk. she says blw is 'dangerous' and then says again that babies have to learn to chew food. (er, of course they do. but that doesn't mean they need it in puree form, you dope). she's got a new range out, of course. lots of ad in the mag and she's bezzie mates with the ed, so we were fucked from the start.

Everyone round here thinks I am very strange and depriving dd for not having started weaning yet but then I am always talking about giving finger foods instead of purees.

And I haven't found one single book or magazine article which gives sound advice and guidance if you wait until 6 months seems to me that everything is biased the wrong way.

dd is nearly 23 weeks but I am FF after having to stop BF at 8 weeks due to medical problem.

I made it with ds. Easy. Lot all my baby weight as well.

PMSL at mushy laurels

Aitch, is there any way of reading the Practical Parenting article without getting on a long haul flight?

Although I'm not sure I want to read it as I think it might raise my blood pressure too much

Oh, both of mine started solids at 6 months and were fine - and although they loved tasting things at 6 months, didn't really eat much til 8 or 9 months, so I could have started much later.

it's not that bad, wellie. it's just that the first draft went to the ed and she thought it was 'too positive' so they had to lie and obfuscate a bit to make it worse. true story.

Have emailed you, Aitch...

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Wanted to offer some sympathy, Thomas, that sounds like a lot of feeding and not a lot of sleep for you.
My DS made it to 6 months exclusively BF, no problem.
But he also slept very well from about 3 or 4 months, so I had no reason to be tempted by early solids.
Not really sure if solids would get you any more sleep though?

[aghast at editor]

It seems a large percentage of mumsnetters exclusivly BF to 6 months, and BLW.
Aitch, do you know how many peolpe BLW?

goodness, i don't know. all i can say is that in a year i've built up to getting 70,000 hits a month on the site so there are clearly a lot of people looking for info.

DS made it to 6 months. Wasn't a wonderful sleeper, but was only feeding once a night at that stage really. Occasionally more, but not often.

DD was weaned at 14 weeks, so even earlier than the then guidelines. But I put that down to sheer desperation and also first-timers curiousity about the giving of solid food. Realised that could actually be pretty boring once you start, more binding than breastfeeding and also made absolutely no difference to her being a non-sleeping baby. Will say that while she didn't really sleep through until 10/11 months, once she did there was no stopping her and she sleeps like a dream now (is 4). Only gave up her afternoon nap about 6 weeks ago.

Oh and ds was much more hefty than dd. Weighed 16 lb 9 oz at 16 weeks. whereas dd was 15 lbs 1oz.

I made it to the week before she was six months (Hols with mil)