Did anyone wean before 4 months?

[thymes2]

Hello! This is my first post.
My baby is 14 weeks old and mainly breastfed. Because she seems to struggle to get full I give her at least one bottle of formula per day (usually at night time so she'll sleep for a longer time. She seems very interested in our meals and I'm thinking of weaning her early. I'd like to hear about peoples experiences of weaning before the recommended 6 months and any advice.

I don't see a clique but I do see a poster deliberatly tryiong to wind others up and being offensive towards them which if u think about it isn't fair no matter how long someone's been posting.

Bye, bye. Let me spend time with my son. He wants a hug. But maybe there is research which tells us its not good to hug our kids.

I'm so glad to be reaping the benefits of colonising a few poor countries that i feel I can recklessly spend some of the huge profit I got from exploiting a few slaves to buy some charming clothes for the children.

Yawn.

lol@hercules!

trouble is it stopped being funny when you were so light hearted about SIDS and terrorism.

Yes, not top comedy topics, Hercules

is it puma?

hercules, just one last comment about that: I condemn terrorism just as much as you and most of the people around us. However, it doesn't stop my life. This discussion doesn't become pointless just because something bad happened in the world.

Regarding SIDS - I don't think that I'm light hearted about that. I do however honestly believe that there are much more important risk factors to SIDS than the baby's sleeping position. The immaturity of the baby's brain plays IMO a much larger role in that.

What I'm saying is that I feel very comfortable with my baby sleeping on his tummy and I don't think that is putting him at risk at all.

You obviously feel you know best and are happy to ignore peer-reviewed research by well-educated people. Up to you. Just don't expect everyone to agree with you.

And I honestly did not know what SIDS stood for.

it does make your arguments less valid when you resort to such comments.

Hasnt the incidences of sids been dramatically reduced since the back to sleep campaign. sorry, I guess that's a lie too.

sudden infant death syndrome

I still believe that as mothers we know our children best, and whatever decisions we make we have to live with.

I know what I am doing for my son is best for him. Seriously guys, lets not fall out

Thank you very much. I'm well educated myself.

I don't expect anybody to agree with my point of view. What would I gain from your agreement anyway?

But in the same way, you can't expect me to agree with dozen's of people who have been prep'd by "peer-reviewed research", just because they think they are doing the safe thing.

I'm more than happy to discuss but insults are not in line with mumsnet philosophy and calling us colonialists is out of line.

I stand by all I've said though .

It's sad you have to be insulting though....

That is all statistics. And it is very hard to proof that statistics are really significant. You need increadibly large populations and incredibly large time series - otherwise it might be coincidence.

Do you really don't understand this? Whenever it comes to medical things there is hardly ever any stringent argumentation. All is based on statistics and probabilities.

If you feel fine with that, just go ahead and do what people expect you to do. I don't

I really don't understand how people can come out with this "a mother always knows best" statement. Some mothers do truly awful things to their children - do they know best, too? Most mothers, fortunately, are trying to do the best they can for their children (but not all! ), but in trying to do the best for our children we need the guidance and advice of scientists - especially as in our society and in our times we are too far removed from nature to let intuition and instinct alone guide us.

i think your posts have got to be amongst the most judgemental I've ever read on mumsnet.

hmm...just a thought...where did thymes2 go?

So is all the medical research into blood tranfusions, medicines and surgical procedures simply statistics then?