Weaning too late

[flyingcloud]

I was planning on waiting until the latest possible moment to wean my currently 18 week old dd. From 25-27 weeks I will be away from home, albeit with DD, but on a sort of working holiday with a big group of people and it's really not the ideal situation to start weaning, bl or otherwise.

Are there any disadvantages to weaning late? Will it affect her speech / coordination skills? May be avery stupid question!

Otherwise I could maybe try to wean a shade earlier at 23/24 weeks using a bl approach...

let her decide, DS took toast from me at 24 weeks and pretty much ate what ever was put in front of him from then on.

DD will be 26 weeks when we are at a festival (beautiful days in devon) and I have visions of her first food being less than home made or maybe something even worse

I don't think you can leave it to late - 27 weeks would be fine for me, I know some people's LO's don't twig with food until 8 or 9 months so prob wouldn't do any harm

Thank you for your reply - my post was a bit garbled as I was distracted by playing peekaboo with dd!

Dd1 didn't really eat until 8 months. Had a really strong gag reflex. She was breast feed until 9 months but still didn't eat much when we switch to formula. Wasn't until 11 months that she really ate anything much. In fact went on holiday at 10 months and she only ate a couple of yoghurts and some crisp for 10 days just survived on formula. Still eats like a bird. Ignore health visitors, they were trotting out some very unscientific sounding evidence that her speech would be delayed. Now 3 and speech is fine and developed normally.
Dd2 also didn't eat till 8 months even though I tried her at 6 months. Although now she is a much better eater she struggled at first gagging on even very thin purees. No need to rush it.