HV still advising weaning at 4 months [hmm]

[againandagain]

We have just returned home after a week in hospital with broncholitis . I asked a health visiter (who was working as a health assistant on the ward at weekends) what to do about weening my 5.5 month old as she was so poorly. She told me that really it was still better for most babies if they are weened at 4 months and only very sensitive babies (ie eczema etc) should wait . I am completely serious!

I then kind of dismissed the conversation and asked a nurse and a docter who both told me to hold of untill at least 26 weeks as it takes a long time to recover and as she was tube fed needs to regain her milk appetite. Which I kind of thought anyway.

But I was so shocked!

Yeah there was only a thread on here the other day about someone who said 4 health visitors had told her to wean her baby early and give it rusks!!!

To be honest though with my 2 DCs I've always found when young and just entering weaning, that if they're poorly they don't want solids they only want milk! So if your baby is poorly I suspect they wouldn't want solids right now anyway, so hold off and ignore the silly HV But I think you were planning to do that anyway

did you get her name at all?
tbh i think it's owrth writing to the hospital or surgery she works from or wherever and pointing this out

we all moan about HV's giving shit advice, but unless we do something about it then it's going to carry on!

I was going to wait untill 24 weeks. But as she is 22 weeks now and has been so ill I suspected I should give her a few more weeks so start around 26/27 (to let her completly recover).

It was just shocking that the HV was suprised that I hadnt started and told me that I proberly should of done.

Yesterday- I do have her first name and the days that she worked so I proberly could complain. A different nurse told me to complain about her over a different incident, as she was pretty incompetant.

Ill have a think about it, but you are right. We all complain but not alot gets done.

you don't have to give your name if you don't want to, and tbh if you don't realkly want to complain about her specifically you could call them and just say that you were given some worrying advice, and perhaps they need staff to have a bit more training on weaning?

might help, you never know