Weaning Forum

Posted: 14 December 2005 at 11:00pm | IP Logged

We started leo at 13 week's

at first just a couple of spoon's of baby rice or rusk's

ive voted 12 weeks

Posted: 15 December 2005 at 11:09am | IP Logged

Thanks everyone. As said my main reason for wanting to put her on solids was to get a sleep myself. She finished her bottle at midnight and went to sleep then had more milk at 2.30am then 5.10am and then 6.30am. I am exhausted!! My dh is sharing the getting up with her and he does it more than me  but still I can't cope.

Mumsam-that is a very good suggestion about waiting until she has had all her injections as she has not even had the first one yet and she is over 12 weeks (I will have to phone Doc, as Beks had had all hers by now). That is great Ollie was on 3 meals a day within 3 weeks. Beks took a good few months to take 3 full meals a day

Dizzie, thanks for the suggestion, she was on sma gold for about 5,6 weeks and then we introduced the sma white for hungrier babies which she has been on for weeks now.

I was going to start her this weekend but will leave it now until she has had at least two of the injections.

Thanks again ladies. I am off now to phone the doctor to find out why my angel  has not been immunised yet!

Posted: 19 December 2005 at 10:52pm | IP Logged

Cerys was 9lb 9 when she was born but I didn't start weaning her until she was just over 5 months, so I have voted 20 weeks.

To be honest she wasn't ready until then anyway and now there is no stopping her she is now 7 months and has been on 3 meals a day from just before turning 6 months.  I have finally got her down to 3 bottles a day now but can't seem to get enough solids into her, although she does sleep through the night so I am lucky there but she is waking up a lot earlier in the morning now and has to have a full bowl of porridge (half a box of heinz creamy oat porridge) after her first bottle before she is happy.

Every baby is different though I wandered whether I had been too slow weaning Cerys before I had started as everyone on here seemed to have started a lot earlier than me but Cerys just wasn't ready any earlier, so I feel I made the right decision for her.

Posted: 19 December 2005 at 11:06pm | IP Logged

Ellie was weaned at 24 weeks, she is a petite baby and was satisfied with 4 milk feeds a day.  I tried her on the hungrier baby milk at about 20 weeks as she was demanding more feeds but she had really explosive diahorrea so I changed her back to sma gold (as advised by hv).  She was taking a lot of interest in our food and did start waking in the night - previously had slept thru from about 5-6 weeks old. 

With Ethan he was weaned at 16 weeks.  Both babies weighed 8lb 7 at birth but he is a much bigger baby - at 16 weeks when I weaned him he was about 4 pounds heavier than Ellie at the same age.  Also he wasn't sleeping thru and I wanted to be certain it wasn't cos he was hungry. He still didn't sleep thru!

Every baby is different - my two certainly are!