No solids formerly six months, right?
My baby is almost four months old and after a fair bit of research I've contracted it's best to hold off solids until he's six months old, but my sister and my fiances mum keep unfolding me that he should be on solids by now which of course I disagree with.
I'm staying beside my fiances mum for the week, while he is away as I don't have a license yet and all I hear roughly speaking is how my baby should be eating "real food".
Last dark was pretty bad, baby screaming from 2pm til 6pm because he is teething... but still she insisted that he needed food, she even called the hospital to get backup from a midwife (didn't even mention the teething) and apparently the midwife agreed with her.
So my interview is, am I right in not starting solids until six months and how do I get people to stop harassing me give or take a few it?
I think you should start your son on solids when he is ready. No more tongue thrust, paying a lot of attention to the food specifically on your plate, reaching, maybe fussing when you put your fork to your mouth. And you can't get people to stop harassing you just about it. Sorry about that one.
I felt the same way and pretty much stuck beside formula only for my daughter. I ended up giving her some of the "baby cereal" around 5 months. I read alot and saw conflicting view on when to start solids. Anywhere from 4-6 months is what I always saw. The pediatrician also said that started her between 4-6 months was fine.
So, really it is up to what you are comfortable with and what your pediatrician recommend.
Answers: The hardest thing to deal with when you enjoy a baby is the grandparents because they always think they know better. As long as your babe-in-arms is being nurished, you are fine without starting him on solids. Teething isn't easy but - a moment ago a suggestion - those teething biscuits really do help out during the teething time. They can't break them yet but they sooth the gums. I know it may be considered solids but it does help.
Again, it's really your declaration. Starting out with cereal will be the best when you are ready.
You do have to put your foot down though near everyone telling you what to do. This is your child and you are the one to make the decision of how the little one is raised/fed/etc.
Tell them you are doing toddler lead weaning (even if you are not). Google it for more info, but it involved waiting until a baby can pick up small pices of food and feed it to himself (no purees). No 4 month old-fashioned could do that.
If they get rude, I think you have every right to get hold of a little snappy with them. Its your baby and you're doing what you give attention to is best (and research agrees). Formula/breastmilk has everything your baby needs and tons breastfed babies don't get into solids until 9+ months and thrive just fine.
I think it depends on your babe-in-arms and what the pedi says. My baby is 3 months and her doc said he wants to start some solids at 4 months. She have reflux though and he thinks it might help reduce it. He have me putting cereal in her bottle. I don't know if she will be ready though at 4 months. But my friend started her baby at 4 months and did fine.
I went through the same piece! I did what dmg suggested printed off a bunch of info and handed it over..even so i got hounded till i finally have to look at them and say no he doesnt NEED solids you just want to give them to him. And as someone else said i pulled the mother card.
My grandma considered necessary to give them food at 2 months old i just more or less freaked out. Stand up for yourself and keep repeating. Eventually they will get the point to butt out!
You can do it at 4 months if you want to. Some do it at 4 months, and others start at 6 months. Its your choice, not a soul Else's because he is YOUR baby.
The current thinking is no solids until 6 months. But for a long time, the consensus be four months. So your sister and fiances mum are not wrong, they just have outdated information.
Google the subject and find an article, print it out and say "Look, things own changed."
neither one of you are "wrong". some babies are just ready for solids earlier than others. some signs of man ready for solid foods are:
Ability to let you know she is full from a "meal" with signs such as turning away from the bottle or breast
Doubling of birth mass
Frequently waking in the middle of the night when a solid sleeping stencil had been established.
Signs of teething in the infant
All of these could be signs...but really you will know when your toddler is ready
i personally started giving my son cereal when he was a moment or two under 5 months, but that doesnt mean that all babies are in position by then
When my daughter was 4 months they told us to feed solids. She's 20 months immediately. About when she was 6 months, they changed it to 6 months. O_O So yeah. It's outdated, but just barely. You're right, though. :)
"I'M the mom, gratefulness for your concern!"
Any try Hyland's teething tablets for the teething pain.
You are right, if he's breast fed. The WHO, CDC and AAP all agree on that. Source(s): http://www.llli.org/FAQ/solids.html
You can start solids between 4-6 months, but if you are deciding not to, then no one should be harassing you almost it. Your baby most likely isn't hungry, and doesn't need solid food right immediately. I was even told by my doctor that really, until 12 months, feeding solids is just practice contained by eating from a spoon and trying new things... it gives them lots of vitamins, but you are surely not wrong surrounded by waiting until he's 6 months old. Tell your MIL to back off!!
You are right. Pediatricians say 4-6 months, but 6 months is preferred. They just utter 4-6 because they don't want the impatient moms to wait until at least 4 months.
And, if your child is breastfed, you could actually probably jump a full year before offering solids.
You said you did your research, so while you're on the internet now, print out a page or two, and hand it to your fiance's mom.
That's what I did when my husband's mother pestered me something like my daughter running around in bare feet. I kept describing her that it helps them to learn to walk better, but she insisted she needed to wear shoes.
Once I printed out a couple of articles almost it and handed them to her, she read them and shut up about it.
Your fiance's mom is probably just thinking give or take a few what was considered right when she was a mom 20+ years ago. Times change, doctors catch better...too bad your fiance's mom hasn't kept with the times, so you'll have to entrap her up yourself.
Tell them to eff off.
Personally, I wouldn't linger that long because of all my friend's babies.the ones that waited til 6 months to introduce solids have become really picky eaters...and some of them extremely bratty and demanding kids when it comes to what they devour. I'd never criticize a mother's choices though, you know your baby better than anyone so you know what is best for them.
It can be such a challenge to deal next to the strong opinion of grandma, especially when it opposes your own. It's a little easier when you don't enjoy to deal with it constantly but you can still deal next to it being right there. My son is small. He's 16 months and still doesn't weigh 20 lbs yet. We be recently staying at my MIL's house for a few days. Every time he cried (and I mean every time) she was similar to "He's hungry." Even when he had just eaten an hour until that time, she was telling me to offer him food. She be buying us snacks to give him and constantly talking about feed him. I just had to repeatedly say, "no, he's not hungry" or something along those lines. It still didn't stop but at lowest possible she realizes that bugging me about feeding him isn't going to construct a difference. I'll feed him when it's time for him to eat, not when she thinks he requests to eat. But that was easy to agreement with since it was just a weekend at her house. My SIL instead, has had to deal beside this so much. She has two children and she lived at my MIL's house for a few months after the second was born. The older child is small approaching my son. She just turned 2 last month and is still wearing her 12 month clothes. My MIL pushed and pushed and insisted that my SIL's breastmilk wasn't enough to give food to the baby. She didn't pay attention to whether or not she was achievement weight adequately and having ample diapers each day, she just assumed. It be hard on my SIL to fight against her mother over this and she eventually ended up switching her to formula. That still didn't gross any difference. The started her on solids at like 3 1/2 months, hoping she'd gain weight (all at the advice of the grandmother). Still didn't trade name a difference. She's just a naturally small child and all this extra what-not that my SIL did reluctantly didn't do anything to manufacture a difference. Then my SIL had a second baby. This baby have been exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months. Then they added solids. They live away from the grandmother now so her influence isn't really there. My SIL have been able to follow her own path within raising this second one and the baby is doing just fine. She even wore alike size diaper as the older baby (until she was potty trained). When she go to visit her mom for a few weeks, my SIL ran into the same issues she have when she was living there. And she just repeatedly told her mom that she's done the research and approved that this is what's best for them. But she still had to say it hundreds of times to get the point across, and I'm not sure the point really get across, but at least she backed off a bit.
You may enjoy to deal with people bugging you nearly it no matter what you say to them. But I would just suggest that you firmly state that you enjoy done your research and have decided that this is the course you will take. Then stick near it and repeat that as many times as necessary in directive to drive the point home.
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I'm staying beside my fiances mum for the week, while he is away as I don't have a license yet and all I hear roughly speaking is how my baby should be eating "real food".
Last dark was pretty bad, baby screaming from 2pm til 6pm because he is teething... but still she insisted that he needed food, she even called the hospital to get backup from a midwife (didn't even mention the teething) and apparently the midwife agreed with her.
So my interview is, am I right in not starting solids until six months and how do I get people to stop harassing me give or take a few it?
I think you should start your son on solids when he is ready. No more tongue thrust, paying a lot of attention to the food specifically on your plate, reaching, maybe fussing when you put your fork to your mouth. And you can't get people to stop harassing you just about it. Sorry about that one.
I felt the same way and pretty much stuck beside formula only for my daughter. I ended up giving her some of the "baby cereal" around 5 months. I read alot and saw conflicting view on when to start solids. Anywhere from 4-6 months is what I always saw. The pediatrician also said that started her between 4-6 months was fine.
So, really it is up to what you are comfortable with and what your pediatrician recommend.
Answers: The hardest thing to deal with when you enjoy a baby is the grandparents because they always think they know better. As long as your babe-in-arms is being nurished, you are fine without starting him on solids. Teething isn't easy but - a moment ago a suggestion - those teething biscuits really do help out during the teething time. They can't break them yet but they sooth the gums. I know it may be considered solids but it does help.
Again, it's really your declaration. Starting out with cereal will be the best when you are ready.
You do have to put your foot down though near everyone telling you what to do. This is your child and you are the one to make the decision of how the little one is raised/fed/etc.
Tell them you are doing toddler lead weaning (even if you are not). Google it for more info, but it involved waiting until a baby can pick up small pices of food and feed it to himself (no purees). No 4 month old-fashioned could do that.
If they get rude, I think you have every right to get hold of a little snappy with them. Its your baby and you're doing what you give attention to is best (and research agrees). Formula/breastmilk has everything your baby needs and tons breastfed babies don't get into solids until 9+ months and thrive just fine.
I think it depends on your babe-in-arms and what the pedi says. My baby is 3 months and her doc said he wants to start some solids at 4 months. She have reflux though and he thinks it might help reduce it. He have me putting cereal in her bottle. I don't know if she will be ready though at 4 months. But my friend started her baby at 4 months and did fine.
I went through the same piece! I did what dmg suggested printed off a bunch of info and handed it over..even so i got hounded till i finally have to look at them and say no he doesnt NEED solids you just want to give them to him. And as someone else said i pulled the mother card.
My grandma considered necessary to give them food at 2 months old i just more or less freaked out. Stand up for yourself and keep repeating. Eventually they will get the point to butt out!
You can do it at 4 months if you want to. Some do it at 4 months, and others start at 6 months. Its your choice, not a soul Else's because he is YOUR baby.
The current thinking is no solids until 6 months. But for a long time, the consensus be four months. So your sister and fiances mum are not wrong, they just have outdated information.
Google the subject and find an article, print it out and say "Look, things own changed."
neither one of you are "wrong". some babies are just ready for solids earlier than others. some signs of man ready for solid foods are:
Ability to let you know she is full from a "meal" with signs such as turning away from the bottle or breast
Doubling of birth mass
Frequently waking in the middle of the night when a solid sleeping stencil had been established.
Signs of teething in the infant
All of these could be signs...but really you will know when your toddler is ready
i personally started giving my son cereal when he was a moment or two under 5 months, but that doesnt mean that all babies are in position by then
When my daughter was 4 months they told us to feed solids. She's 20 months immediately. About when she was 6 months, they changed it to 6 months. O_O So yeah. It's outdated, but just barely. You're right, though. :)
"I'M the mom, gratefulness for your concern!"
Any try Hyland's teething tablets for the teething pain.
You are right, if he's breast fed. The WHO, CDC and AAP all agree on that. Source(s): http://www.llli.org/FAQ/solids.html
You can start solids between 4-6 months, but if you are deciding not to, then no one should be harassing you almost it. Your baby most likely isn't hungry, and doesn't need solid food right immediately. I was even told by my doctor that really, until 12 months, feeding solids is just practice contained by eating from a spoon and trying new things... it gives them lots of vitamins, but you are surely not wrong surrounded by waiting until he's 6 months old. Tell your MIL to back off!!
You are right. Pediatricians say 4-6 months, but 6 months is preferred. They just utter 4-6 because they don't want the impatient moms to wait until at least 4 months.
And, if your child is breastfed, you could actually probably jump a full year before offering solids.
You said you did your research, so while you're on the internet now, print out a page or two, and hand it to your fiance's mom.
That's what I did when my husband's mother pestered me something like my daughter running around in bare feet. I kept describing her that it helps them to learn to walk better, but she insisted she needed to wear shoes.
Once I printed out a couple of articles almost it and handed them to her, she read them and shut up about it.
Your fiance's mom is probably just thinking give or take a few what was considered right when she was a mom 20+ years ago. Times change, doctors catch better...too bad your fiance's mom hasn't kept with the times, so you'll have to entrap her up yourself.
Tell them to eff off.
Personally, I wouldn't linger that long because of all my friend's babies.the ones that waited til 6 months to introduce solids have become really picky eaters...and some of them extremely bratty and demanding kids when it comes to what they devour. I'd never criticize a mother's choices though, you know your baby better than anyone so you know what is best for them.
It can be such a challenge to deal next to the strong opinion of grandma, especially when it opposes your own. It's a little easier when you don't enjoy to deal with it constantly but you can still deal next to it being right there. My son is small. He's 16 months and still doesn't weigh 20 lbs yet. We be recently staying at my MIL's house for a few days. Every time he cried (and I mean every time) she was similar to "He's hungry." Even when he had just eaten an hour until that time, she was telling me to offer him food. She be buying us snacks to give him and constantly talking about feed him. I just had to repeatedly say, "no, he's not hungry" or something along those lines. It still didn't stop but at lowest possible she realizes that bugging me about feeding him isn't going to construct a difference. I'll feed him when it's time for him to eat, not when she thinks he requests to eat. But that was easy to agreement with since it was just a weekend at her house. My SIL instead, has had to deal beside this so much. She has two children and she lived at my MIL's house for a few months after the second was born. The older child is small approaching my son. She just turned 2 last month and is still wearing her 12 month clothes. My MIL pushed and pushed and insisted that my SIL's breastmilk wasn't enough to give food to the baby. She didn't pay attention to whether or not she was achievement weight adequately and having ample diapers each day, she just assumed. It be hard on my SIL to fight against her mother over this and she eventually ended up switching her to formula. That still didn't gross any difference. The started her on solids at like 3 1/2 months, hoping she'd gain weight (all at the advice of the grandmother). Still didn't trade name a difference. She's just a naturally small child and all this extra what-not that my SIL did reluctantly didn't do anything to manufacture a difference. Then my SIL had a second baby. This baby have been exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months. Then they added solids. They live away from the grandmother now so her influence isn't really there. My SIL have been able to follow her own path within raising this second one and the baby is doing just fine. She even wore alike size diaper as the older baby (until she was potty trained). When she go to visit her mom for a few weeks, my SIL ran into the same issues she have when she was living there. And she just repeatedly told her mom that she's done the research and approved that this is what's best for them. But she still had to say it hundreds of times to get the point across, and I'm not sure the point really get across, but at least she backed off a bit.
You may enjoy to deal with people bugging you nearly it no matter what you say to them. But I would just suggest that you firmly state that you enjoy done your research and have decided that this is the course you will take. Then stick near it and repeat that as many times as necessary in directive to drive the point home.
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