A friend has kindly lent me one of AK's puree books (Top 100 Baby Purees) for inspiration. I'm doing BLW for my DS but am not a great cook so am looking in lots of places (including Aitch's blog which is great!) for ideas of what to cook for us all (my normal diet is rubbish so needs a good healthy shake up!)
Anyways - I read the intro to the book last might and it states;
"Signs your baby is ready:
-still hungry after a full milk feed
-demands feeds more frequently
-wakes at night after a feed having previously slept through"
The NHS / Unicef leaflet I have states;
"It is normal for babies aged three to five months to begin waking in the night when they have previously slept through. It is not necesserily a sign of hunger and starting solids will not make your baby more likely to sleep through the night again"
and....
"If your baby seems hungrier any time before six months, it may be a growth spurt and extra breast milk or formula will be enough to meet their needs"
I did loads or research about weaning, particularly as I have chosen to do BLW, and as most of my friends started way before 6 months, and am positive AK is just plain wrong. My DS had a huge growth spurt (I think!) at four months and was waking every 1.5 hours to feed for 3 weeks. It was horrid, the HV suggested solids, but we got through it and he settled back into his usual routine.
How does AK, "baby feeding expert", get away with putting advice into her book that is completely the opposite to that if the NHS / UNICEF (and by the NHS I mean the well researched leaflet, not the dodgy advice doled out by HV's). I know she's out to sell as many books as possible, and succeeds hugely, but what is the point????
And I know she does relay the advice that solids should be started at six months, but the issues above come up before then and that is why people start to wean early, and she knows this.
Oh this has really irritated me!!!!!!