Weaning!!

[wildchild]

I know they are saying to try and wait till the baby is 6 months old now, but my lg has just turned 3 months and is already showing signs of being ready to start weaning!
She is constantly chewing her hands , always hungry even though she is on hungrier baby milk, taking an interest in the filmy when we are all sat eating dinner.
I don't know, just wondered what other peoples thoughts on this was??!!

[bednobs]

as far as i know, when the govt made the guidelines, they made a mistake and took the information from WHO's advice for DEVELOPING countries, not DEVELOPED countries, aand are going to review it soon. in my opinion 3 months is ok

[Ratty2E]

I've heard that about the guidelines too. When me and my friends had babies they were all started on 'solids' at 3 months and they are all alive and well a good 20 years later so I'd go with your own insticts and give it a try. She might be chewing her hand because she's starting teething.

[B00]

whatsa filmy?

[I.Don No]

as has been said before, each child is different. my middle child was very hungry and I was advised to start him on solids when he was 8 weeks old. as soon as I did that he was much more contented.

[wildchild]

Sorry just realised that, it was a typo, meant to say family!
Thanks for your replies, going to talk to my health visitor on thursday morning , I have a 13year old and a 7 year old, they are both normal / healthy kids and I started them at about 4 months!

[Halifaxmum]

Halifax son started on baby rice at 3 months - the hungrier milk gave him constipation and he just puked up the normal milk. He was so much more content once he got food in his mush! He's now 15, 5'8" and doing brilliantly at school :) x

Don't listen to the HV - the ones I had were rubbish - trust your own instincts!

[firewatch]

I started our lo just shy of 4 months, she had chronic skin problems and was forever hungry after feeds, so started her on a bit of banana and never looked back and it helped her skin.

[tigwig]

I bet your HV will tell you not to. I weaned my eldest at 15 weeks, at the time then it was 5/6 weeks earlier than the guidelines. My son was much earlier at 13 weeks and I never told the HV cos I knew she's go mad lol! He hated milk and at worst he started dropping to 8-10oz in a 24hr period, thats when I knew I had to give him something else. I did and he was fine. I would just start with a bit of baby rice and see how it goes.

[wildchild]

My health visitor is pretty rubbish anyway, saying she will call or text me and never does! Think i will give it a few more days, might go and get her weighed tomorrow, she has been quite sick a lot after milk the last few days...
go from there, like people are saying, trust instincts ! If she has dropped of the line in the red book then might need to fill her up with a bit of baby rice.
Thanks all for your input :)

[atalanta]

My eldest was dreadfully greedy, and when he was 12 weeks old the health visitor agreed that he could not go on drinking the amount of milk he demanded. We started offering mashed banana, mashed avocado, stewed apple, then shepherd's pie, fish pie and chopped up spaghetti bolognese. By the time he was 6 months he was eating and enjoying proper "people-food", and he had no adverse reactions at all. He is now grown up, and a real foodie, but still a healthy weight.

[wildchild]

Not long got home from Tesco bought a couple of bowls with spoons and some first tastes baby rice, cow and gate, the same make as her milk, will leave it till morning now and see how we go! :)

[firewatch]

good luck wildchild, dont be put off if she spits it out its a weird texture and may take her a couple days to get used to it. Persevere with it chick, madam here ate like a horse from day one and we never looked back!

[erin-x]

One child at work has just started on rusks.. she's 11 weeks old and she seems fine with them. It's different for every child though. All you can do is try eh! :)