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Posted: 12 June 2006 at 9:55am | IP Logged

The government are now saying wait till baby is 6 months old before weaning, when taylor was a baby it was 4 months...

tbh, its down to the child, if there not satisfied with just milk for food then why not.

Taylor was just a couple weeks shy of 4 months when he had baby rice for the first time, it was around the same time he started to sleep through the night too... concequence????

I would just stick to baby rice for the first month or so, leave the rusks till he is a bit older as they are quite lumpy when mashed up with milk.

Posted: 12 June 2006 at 10:00am | IP Logged

Its up to you and what you think your baby wants. Is he on hungry baby formula? As that might be worth a try first. Is he showing signs of being ready? Interested in your food, waking at night when wasnt before, etc.

My main advice is dont rush it! I weaned Edward at 16weeks on advise of the hv. It turned out he wasnt ready for weaning just having a major growth spurt. It was my biggest parenting mistake to date as I now have a daily battle to feed him. I believe if I'd waited he'd be much happier.

Good luck.

Posted: 12 June 2006 at 10:13am | IP Logged

Maybe this article might help

http://www.madmums.com/gh_showarticle.asp?hid=47

Posted: 12 June 2006 at 10:22am | IP Logged

thankyou ladies for ur replys nathan is on sma gold at the min and he seems happy on that i will keep to it till i feel he may need more xxxx

Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:13pm | IP Logged

I found that with my older 3, giving the last feed at night of the white stuff was excellent in keeping them on the bottle and not on solids, however I did start Fred at 6 weeks!  I know that with Fred he was always hungry, and once I gave him breakfast at 6 weeks he was fine!  It was just really different.  I'd never recommend giving baby solids that early, and I really didn't like doing it myself, but it worked for him.  But then Fred has been different to all 3 of my others, and I'm hoping the new one when he arrives is more like the first 3!  I don't htink I could solid feed again that early even if I was ordered too, it's just not right!  HOwever each baby is different, and I went through a week of hell with Fred before finally doing the one feed, and wished I'd done it earlier.

But as has already been said you can only go by what you think, and what your health visitor helps you with! 

Posted: 18 June 2006 at 10:58pm | IP Logged

I started Ryan on baby rice at exactly 11 weeks, he was on SMA gold & continued on that until he turned 1

After 3 failed days on baby rice i tried him with 1/4 rusk & he demolished it, so obviously he just didnt like the taste of baby rice

I continued with the rusk until he was 14 weeks by which point he was on half a rusk a day, this is the age i had originally intended 2 wean him

I then started him on the baby jars - veg 1s only for about 4 weeks but mixing between them & rusk then i gradually introduced other savoury flavours

Didnt give him any of the puddings until he was around 6 months cause i was worried he'd develop a taste for sweet things - luckily even now veg is his favourite & he doesnt really like sweet things

Id say go with ur instinct, if hes not happy he'll soon let u know