Very simple weaning question - please come and help me

[Ceebee74]

I am going to start weaning DS2 tomorrow and I am a bit confused about timings.

All the books/mags say to let them have some of a bottle, then solids, then finish off the bottle but DS2 screams hysterically if you take the bottle from him before he has finished....hardly a conducive time to try putting a spoon in his mouth

So would it be better to try it in between feeds - he has a bottle at 7 and then one at 11 so was thinking of trying him at about 9.30-10ish when he wakes from his nap.

Does it really matter??

When I weaned DD, I gave her a meal inbetween bottles.

IE: bottle when she woke at 7am then the next bottle would have been at around 11 so I fed her at 9.

HTH

I always gave solids before bottle. Don't know if that's right or not, but it worked for me and DS.

For the first 12 months milk is the main thing. From 6-12 months those that do baby led weaning say something like "food's for fun until they are one". I would say let him try after a feed or at least when he is not hungry for his milk.

If he is 6 months you can consider trying purees or finger foods, whichever seems to suit you or him.

That's what I did - solids between milk feeds. Just see how you get on, you can always try it differently - perhaps soilds then bottle if it doesn't work out.

DD helped herself to food from our plates and ate it. I didn't 'introduce' it in any structured way at all. She just grazed when she wanted and pretty soon was just sitting down to dinner with us.

I carried on bfing on demand (still do now) and followed her lead.

I don't know if you can do the same with ff.

milk should be his main source of nutrition until he is a year.
so it's important he has his milk first so that you don't end up replacing milk feeds with food

Thanks for the advice - I may try giving him all of his bottle first and then solids.

You wouldn't think I have done this once before

I made the 2 completely seperate activities. I never gave milk at same time as solids, you may laugh, but I saw it as having a lasagne and washing it down with a bowl of soup iyswim (as milk is still food)
Anyway, when ds got up at 7, he had milk, then we got dressed and whatever else and he had a 'proper' breakfast at 9,then solid lunch at 12ish, half a bottle at 3, solid dinner at 5, bottle at 7 before bed. I gave water with the meals.
Ds1 was quite big abd was eating so much solids right from the off, i had to lower the milk very quickly.

My parents told me, the point of weaning is when the milk isn't enough to satisfy them anymore so I should be giving his milk as normal and then topping up with solids.

Ceebee I started with the teatime meal, just a bit of veg or fruit pureed. BF at 4 as usual and then fed her puree at 5. Not started doing breakfast or lunch yet as to begin with its just letting them have tasters !