I've worked out where HV get their weaning knowledge from!

[wastingmyeducation]

So, DS nine-month review, and I mention he's never slept through, and am asked to detail what he has to eat over the course of a day.

The solution it seems is tea cakes and semolina - it's all Enid Blyton isn't it?

I'm presuming I need an Edwardian cookbook to wean him to sleep. Any suggestions?

LOL

I think she meant that is what the mother should eat, and I might add, chocolate and wine!

I was advised cereals before bed for my son and I must admit it worked in his case. He was a poor eater so before bed I would give him a weetabix mashed up with banana and formula/milk. It seemed to fill his tummy and stop him waking for milk in the night. This was great advice from my HV.

It's important to afford health visitor advice respect.

After all, where else can you get free comedy parenting tips....oh yes....here

Mine eats like a horse and still wakes. I was told that once eating properly and no night feeds (she hasn't fed at night for ages) she would sleep through. Turns out she's not hungry, just a little bugger who likes to wake up

Lol - I just noticed tesco club card points can now be exchanged for certain books. You can get the whole famous five set for £17.50 of clubcard vouchers. Then you can read up about picnics, ginger beer and currant buns to your hearts content

please forgive me for being an ignorant in English matters, but what's wrong with semolina? It's just porridge made out of wheat. Of course, you must be thinking of the ready to make stuff that they sell in Tesco but the real stuff is actually quite nice.

It's just a bit 'old-fashioned' Tortilla.

'porridge made out of whaet'

rofl

Mine told me yesterday to start introducing baby rice. My DD is 23 weeks.

The reason is because she was born on 25% but rose to the 75% in the first few weeks. I didn't weigh her for 2.5 months and when I did she was back on the 25%. I weighed her two weeks later and she was on the 25%. This apparently means she is ready for weaning.

The thing is, our area is very very short of HVs and this one is overworked, overstretched, works in her own time and really imo does the very best she can. She has been fantastic wrt my DS and some problems we have been having so I kind of feel on the back foot wrt challenging her because I still need her help with him.

Yeah, they like fat babies don't they? DS was 9th centile til about 5 months and is now 50th. But if he starts to drop they'd be concerned apparently.

Smile and nod.

HVs do seem to have ishoos with babies who aren't on the 50th centile. My DS was born hovering between 25th and 50th, then dropped to 25th and has stayed there ever since.

The HVs were obsessed with the idea that he should be on the 50th. So I stopped going to clinic.

I was told by the one HV at clinic who seemed to know anything that a baby's birth centile is the "correct" one. I don't know if that is true, the reason I say she seemed to know what she was talking about was because she told me cluster feeding a BF baby was normal and to be encouraged. The others suggested topping up.

Don't think so georgimama, DS was 9lb 7oz at birth!
Some of them know about some things though. My first health visitor was pretty good.

I think it's called catch-down growth. He got too fat inside, so was very slow to regain birth weight as he's likely to be slim like DH when he grows up.

I wasn't joking moondog. From the wordereference.com :

porridge: soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick.

It could be old fashioned, but babies don't care about that . My DD seems to like it.

Georgimama - agree with wastingmyeducation - I googled "catch-down growth" a while ago, and it's really interesting reading. I think it's esp. the case for babies whose mothers have gestational diabetes - but don't quote me on that, as I may be misremembering. Am shocked that that HV was the only one who understood cluster feeding, mind.

Wasting - both mine have been the same as yours, DS was 10.1lb when born but now, at nearly 8 months quite happily follows the 25th percentile line. I seem to just have big babies that aren't meant to be that big long term!