mickey

I am the worst!

I started weaning Juleika without consulting the HV before!

but well, she has doubled her birth weight, she still drinks loads from the breast, she looks round and chubby, she eats so far everything I give her and I apparently give her very small portions only once a day. so it's more for her to experience the different tastes and getting her used to different textures

lorrilou

Well i always make up bottles in advance, sooooo much easier.
i occasionally microwave them, specially is callum is starving!!!
and i started weaning him at 16wks, he was starvin ALL THE TIME.

oisinsmum

there are rules???????????? I am on my 4th baby and I just make it up as I go along - then i tell dh etc the way to do it in an authoritive voice and it is the gospel according to me. Seriously i have
always made 24 hrs of bottles - not put in fridge - so they will accept them at room temp - far easier when out and about
if warming - ALWAYS used micro
Spoonfed ds2 at 10 weeks
let all my babies sleep with me - we dont drink alchohol etc
cursed in front of them
offered them all dummies
given little bits of choc.
NEVER stuck to the magic 4 day rule for weaning (only discovered it last week)
LIED to my HV - its easier to tell her what she wants to hear lol
BUT its not all bad - i've kept the basice rule - LOVE THEM LOTS

MarchBaby

^I do the same but dont put the formula in until he eats
I microwave bottles
He sleeps in bed with me
I give him baby juice already
I've given him baby tylenol.. although the smallest dose and only until my pediatrician advised me not too (although I never told her I did, I just asked if I could.. after I had already done it )
I already have baby cereal and plan on starting it soon
I will wean ALOT earlier than 6 months.. probably 3-4. Everyone in my family has been weaned early and they are all fine and dandy. My cousin, who is 10 months now, started getting small amounts of puree at 2 months!

Tilly

I make my own rules, so I don't technically break any.

The "rules" i've broken:
Microwaving bottles
24 hours of milk made up and stored in the fridge
Feeding her purees at 3-4 months

Think thats it..

toriaaaaTRASH

My friend weaned hers at 14 weeks. Not completely, but she'd give him bits and pieces now and then.

mickey

LOL, that made me laugh now

taughtandlost

Jacob sleeps on his front (or else he doesn't sleep), used a dummy from about 3 weeks.

Has anyone tried feeding formula at room temperature? It's not as quick as ready made bottles, but we tried it with Jacob and he'll drink it at any temperature so when we go out, we've got bottles of room temp boiled water that we just need to add formula to. No need to worry about heating bottles up if we're out and about (or even if he's screaming his head off at home!).

Wobbles

Seen a few girls say they do feeds at room temp

mickey

and I nap on the sofa together wit her!!!