Do you know anyone in real life who has held off weaning until 6 months?

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I don't. Are the guidelines a load of twaddle then?

I waited until 6 months and I put that mainly down to information received from Mumsnet but not one of my friends have done the same. All their DC were on 3 meals a day by 5/6 months.

i waited till 6 months to the day

but in the face of alot of pressure, oh you need to get her on 3 meals a day blah blah.

and from the hv who advised everyone to wean at 16 weeks

think most people i know thought, i was been very pfb and odd.
but i don't care.

although, i must admit if i didn't have mn and just had everyone i know in rl and the hv telling me to wean i probably would have, as i wouldn't of known the risks.

so thanks mumsnetters.

Victorian - Yeees, that's right, my opinion, I did stress that right at the beginning of my post, and I don't expect anyone to take the advise of a poster over a health professional. I'm not saying waiting til 6 months is wrong, I just know some babies find it trickier to start eating beyond this stage because there is aparently a window where they learn these things and I was told that going beyond that (I think around 7 months) it was harder for them to get the chewing reflex. I did stress that I thought the baby should dictate - obivously with some commonsense applied and advice from a HV.

No need to get stroppy over it.

There's no window where they learn to eat.

Ah well, that's not what our HV told us. Who knows. I really don't want to get in an argument about it all, that wasn't the reason I posted. I was just joining in. I'll slope off to avoid further conflict as I really am too tired.

Not arguing either, sorry! one finger typing was a bit blunt!

I was blunt....not my one finger!

oh no sb, who told you that crap about there being a window? let me guess a hv?

opps too late, i knew it would be a hv spouting such dangerous shite.

I was told about that "window" buy a HV too. She also said that if I didn't start giving dd food soon she's have trouble learning to talk. I smiled sweetly and lied. I've had to add a note to dd's Red Book to say that everything he HV had written about her weaning wasn't true. She also said that if I didn't give her solid food she's "get lazy" and not want to eat.

I was told about the 'window' too, and I agree there is a window. However, I think the window is for being able to spoon feed a child, not for weaning a child. DD started solids at 6 months and unlike DS (weaned at 4 months) had absolutely no interest in being spoon fed. However, she was very happy to have a go at feeding herself.

I think that if you want a child to be spoon fed, it probably is easier to get them used to the concept before they feel that they can do it themselves.

I waited until 6 months with my ds, although by the time he actually ate anything he was closer to 9 months. I intend to do the same with my dd too. Exclusive bf is soooo easy....I'm all for the lazy option!

I actually refuse to leave my LO with my OH's family because I know they will try to give her solids early. She's 13 weeks now and thriving on milk and they're already telling me 'she wont be opn milk for much longer'. Ummm? Why not?

I've told them she's not going to have solids til 6 months at least and i'm being told that i'm being stupid. They would feed her behind my back if they didn't agree with what I was doing.

DD, now 5.5 was 6 months before I weaned her, which was going against the advice at the time which was to wean earlier.

I decided that as she was sleeping through the night, seemed happy with just milk, was gaining weight OK and not at all interested in food, I would wait.

I was told that by weaning her "late" she would be fussy eater - well, she eats everything, loves healthy food like fruit and vegetables, so the HV was wrong about that.

OMaLittle - was it a paediatric nutritionist who advised weaning at 22 weeks or just a general one iyswim?

A friend of mine was waiting to wean her daughter but her mil decided she knew better and thought she'd benefit from having her dummy dipped in gravy at 4 months. Gravy of all things!

This is interesting, I ff and some of the women in my nct group went on at me about how breast is best. Yet they all intend to wean early whereas I waited the 6 months.

Quite annoyed me actually.

Current family i am working with, Baby was 6.5m when started on masked veg at evening meal.

I know very few people. Most people I know started their LO's on baby rice at 5 or 6 weeks. I got a lot of grief for waiting til 6 months, especially as ds was up 6/7 times a night and feeding every hour or more through the day. Was told I was starving him. Then got him weighed at 26 weeks and 2 days and he had dropped a centile (had still put on weight so thanks to mnet I wasn't worried!), hv asked "Does he eat much?", and told me off when I said I hadn't started solids yet .

One friend who started her younger ds on solids at 6 weeks was very interested in why I was waiting with ds. I gave her my reasons and she really seemed to take it on board but then started her ds2 on rice at 10 weeks.

Another friend told me she had to give her ds rice from birth because he was prem and tiny and so needed feeding. She then said that the guidelines were based on "made up" stuff that they said just to scare us. I'm not quite sure why they would make it up but anyway...

Sorry that should be her older ds not her younger!

clairey did you breastfeed or bottlefeed?

sorry that should be formula feed.

Breastfed. Got a lot of grief for that too mind

I did !! fully bf , now weening 7mths doing well, drinking water & taking 2-3 breast feeds a day.

He was term, nearly 9lb, & has remained on the 91st-98th centile, he's a big happy boy.

Most mums around me also have or are sticking to the 6mths.

I weaned ds1 at 4 1/2 months as 4 month recommended then.
I weaned ds2 at 6 1/2 months as advice had changed by then and ds1 has lots of allergies and intolerance issues.