about my niece? please?
i feel like a proud grandmother. dsis is ten years younger than me, which may go someway to explain why i feel so proud of her and baby. (and me )
dn aged 5.5 months would sit on lap at table and try and grab stuff of plate. we'd give her some home made chapatti to chew on, which she would happily do. dsis had previously given her some banana, but sh ehad vomitted after it. we tried her on a bottle of formula but she puked that up as well. so we left the formula alone, and just kept giving her the chapatti to chew on.
she is now 6.5 months old, has rejected every sort of puree she has been offered, munchs on everything from my plate, including rice, carrots, peas, potatos, all merely squished into her mouth , not purreed. her favourite is a leg bone from a chicken curry. dsis just cleans it off, and dn will happily munch on it until she has sucked all the stuff off it.
thank you mumsnetters for teaching me about the importance of waiting till baby is grabbing stuff off your plate. weaning dn onto solids has been far easier than weaning any of my own kids ever was. although, lol, that may be something to do with me not being the one breastfeeding her? i am just so proud of dsis and dn and the entire baby led weaning