My 6 week old wont take baby rice, or mashed bannana

[mummyof5ok]

Ive been told that my baby will be ok on this just a small amount b4 bed, i have tried to give it to him and he spits it out, i wasent sure at first to give it to him but my mother in law says she did it for all of her lads who are healthu and that he will sleep all night, he dident sleep last night, but im moving onto mashed orange this weeks as he is nearly 7 weeks old and she said it will be fine.
What else should I try i want him fully weaned ny 4 months as they are more contented.
Thanks x Ps this is number 5 baby, the others were started at 3 months but this one is a hungry boy!

Oh this has been mighty entertaining while i've been sat here bf my ds unable to type

This is either somebody pulling your umbilical cords or a very confused internet virgin wondering why you're all being so mean...

I agree Lulumama and you've given me and others some excellent advice many times over but it does bug me when people like you are taking so much trouble to post and people like the OP aren't listening, nay ignoring.

But please keep up the good work Lulu, people like you make this site worthwhile.

lulu you are so kind and gracious, you put us all to shame

oooh , my doula has a verbal from the head of midwifery at the other hospital near me that I do not need CFM for my VBA2C . now I just need to get it in writing from her, change hospitals and get it written into my notes.

So, is this bumsex or not

eye thang yew!

preeeeeeen>>

daisy, that is ace. am crossing everything for you!

i am listning your all very bitchy indeed perhaps i shouldent have joined i feel a bit victimised,

am sorry you feel bad.

unfortunately , there have been a lot of trolls here lately. i.e people starting threads with dubious or outrageous statements.

and big arguments about early weaning with another internet forum

so a thread about a 6 week old on solid foods was bound to raise a few eyebrows

do you not have a health visitor to speak to? one should have spoken with you / visited when your baby was around 10 days .

unfortunately, your Mother in law may mean well, but her advice is outdated and potentially dangerous

Don't feel victimised. All we're trying to do is to stop you from doing anything harmful to you or your baby, thats all. Its a bit difficult when you keep coming back asking if there are any exceptions to breastfeeding, thats all.

ok thank you ill take your advice

Weaning age hasn't really changed since the 1970s. It was four months, from four months, four to six months and now six months. Three weeks hasn't been the age since the 1950s. No research ever backed up the earlier ages, it was just telling people to do what people do. It's only more recently (considering that this all started around the war) that the age of weaning has really been advised based on scientific advice (rather than the "scientists" employed by manufacturers to tell people their product was best before laws were made to stop them).

Before the 1950s babies were weaned between 9 and 12 months, apparently most babies were weaned over the winter months.

If you take a world tour so to speak, not just around the developing world, you will find that even 6 months is fairly early. Speaking with my partners receptionist she told me in the country she's from they wean around 2 years and follow, from her description BLW. That's the latest I've heard, mostly it's over 9 months.

Thats fascinating TBM - weaning at 2 years..

Yes, it surprised me. She did say they will give porridge before if the child needs it, again it's rather BLW, they put it in the child's hands and if it gets eaten then they needed it. Her country all breastfeed for a long time too.

mummyof5ok - I apologise if I have made you feel victimised. If you are indeed in need of sound advice please call your HV and ask her to bring a pregnancy test out with her.

Lulu - you are, as ever, my God.

. Once again, troll or no, people do have these questions, like it or not, and they get bad advice from friends and family, and sometimes poor advice from hcps, so repeatedly posting up-to-date and well-explained advice is a bloody good thing to do for lurkers - this isn't a random AIBU, but something where some good can come of it, potentially.

What a load of bollocks. This woman is either a really crap troll or totally mental. Any mother of 5 would have done the research. Why not just add salt to the mashed orange just to make sure he sleeps REALLY well, lunatic.

Unfortunately having 5 kids is no guarantee that a parent will know /understand /follow guidelines. My SIL is completely shocking in the things she does with feeding.

Tinkerbell what country is that? (just out of curiosity)

Who the hell would ever give orange anyway? was giving benefit of the doubt until I saw orange!

Tinkerbelle - the stuff about later weaning is really interesting.

FWIW, they did an archaeological study of a single deserted village in Yorkshire. From looking at the medieval graves, they calculated that average age of weaning then was 18 months.

i don;t think it is that shocking, or that likely to be a trol.. having read some early weaning threads on other forums, where there are plenty of mums feeding four hourly regardless of baby's hunger, adding rusk or rice to a bottle, weaning at 6-8-10 weeks , saying,'my mum/gran did it and did us no harm'

i thikn that MNers are pretty clued up on the whole, hence what seems totally is quite normal to plenty of otehr parents

not every paretns read research, see their HV or GP presuming that even if they did they would be discouraged from ealry weaning

i have a friend who smoked throuhg all of her pregnancies and weaned all of hers at 12 weeks (before i knew her ) people do stuff that is even when it is well documented to be harmful

if people smoke when pregnant, why would there be any surprise at weaning at 6 weeks?
IFYSWIM

and thank you for all the lovely comments

Agree, lulu (again!). I'm sure it's perfectly possible to raise 5 kids, and through a combination of misinformation, pressure from family/friends, poor hcps and the like not to be up to speed on the whys and wherefores of current guidelines. 5 kids leaves less time to research, I reckon! I think the only way to deal with all posts like this is to post as lulumama, and others, have done - politely, consistently, clearly. There's no point in putting people's backs up, as they're less likely to take what you've said on board, and if it is a troll, then polite consistent responses aren't what they want, so they'll get bored, while the good advice remains for lurkers. Win-win, surely.

I'm not sure where the receptionist is from to be honest. I've spoken to quite a few people from Asia and Africa though, not from developing countries, whose countries do later weaning.

vonsudenfed that's interesting. CMOT has parenting manuals going back a few centuries and posted quite a bit on Aitch's blog about weaning ages which is where I've got most of what I know about the past. She even has early formula recipes which would make you happy to give oranges seasoned with salt to your newborn!

Just remembered that dd's earliest taste was orange! She was about 5 months old and nicked a segment out of my hand. I didn't let her keep it (nor did I start weaning), but she was awfully keen...)

Maybe he doesn't like rice or banana. Try blending a Big Mac instead