Is anyone weaning before 6 months?

Hi molly, i have been doing purées with fruit veg and porridge since 18 weeks and my little girl loves it!!! Started on allergens too and all good so far!! X x

amazing! Thank you!

I’ve started wee tastes of stuff just this week. My wee girl born 20/10 so just turned 5 months too. She’s absolutely ready she’s sitting up and has been for weeks now, has held her head steady for months and god help me if I’m trying to have lunch etc around her because she’s just grabbing everything out my hands 🤣 I started with broccoli to get it out the way, she was delighted tbh probs just cos she was getting some food🤣 literally a tea spoon worth just onto her wee flat spoon and she took it great. I’ve since got addicted to my puree machine and made sweet potato, butternut squash, carrot, pear, apple, strawberry, courgette purées🤣🤣🤣 and popped them in the freezer in moulds, then once frozen bag and label them, rinse and repeat! Once she’s about 6 months ill maybe have a bash with BLW but for now I just want to build a wee stash so in the coming weeks I can leave one wee moulds worth out and know that’s a meal for her sorted. At the minute it’s really just a wee taste of

that’s great to hear! This is my plan really too. Did you just buy the freezer moulds from Amazon?

Whatever I’ve made** and the rest goes in the freezer but she’s absolutely loving it and realistically for how little they get to begin with, I couldn’t have waited any longer she’s tanking all her bottles, and doesn’t have an arse to sit on hahaha I think if you have the feeling your wee girl is ready it probably means she is. Just take it slow and let her just mess about with it. I don’t mind how much she eats or not, I have a dog who is also LOVING leftover life, it’s more about letting her explore new tastes and textures and then when she’s 6 months she can start getting like what we’re having blitzed etc (within reason, I might need to start eating a bit better haha!)🤣

yes! Really recommend the kiddo Feedo ones - you can put them in the oven and everything so you can either freeze purées, bake muffins, make soap! And they give you a wee recipe ebook for recipe ideas. I’ve been doing single ingredient purées for now just to let her try everything but even veg ones like brocolli that she’s probably going to turn her nose up now that she knows what strawberries taste like 🤣 I can defrost a brocolli and mix it in with like potato and chicken and whatever and sneakily hide in veg into her future meals. So exciting haha 🤣🤣 milk was getting a bit boring for both of us tbh🤣

We started with baby rice at about 4 and a half months and he hated everything about it, I’m not sure he was ready entirely though. We started adding purées into it around 5 months and he loved it. He has half a pouch a day mixed in with some rice just for texture. He’s 6 months next week and we’ve just started with melty puffs too, and will be doing BLW as soon as the pouches in the cupboard are gone! Xx

Mines been having some purees and baby rice and loving it! We dont replace any bottles or anything as its such a small amount but been such fun so far

I’d like to make a start as he’s defo ready for it plus I’m hoping it’ll help with his reflux but I’m still super nervous! When we do start I’ll do purées / first tastes ( I also bought a fruit teether) then start BLW around 6m x

My little girl was 5 months on 10/03, and we started purees around then. We started with rusks and oat porridge and slowly began introducing different fruits and veggies. She absolutely loves porridge (it's a heinz baby one), and I've begun mixing in fruit purees with it. I'll use a range of homemade ones and shop bought depending on what we're doing that day.

I've found the fruit feeders to be fantastic, especially with things like banana which she loves. She gets a bit frustrated if I'm not feeding her quick enough so I find them really useful as she then gets her independence when feeding :)

I bought the annabel karmel weaning book off of vinted and am more or less following her timetable:) I found that the most useful tbh xx

We started purees of fruit and veg just after 5 months to get her used to tastes as she was sooooo interested in food and what we were eating, she would stare at us, open her mouth when we did and reach out to grab the food if she was sat on/near us. She's just turned 6 months yesterday (was 5 weeks early) and she now has a bowl of Porridge a day with fruit puree and a small bowl of pureed veg and loves it. I'm not keen on the idea of BLW yet, so will wait until about 7 months before introducing this x

I’m about to start with my daughter she’s 5 months and a bit. She’s been very interested in food and stopped sleeping through the night and also getting fussy with milk now, so think it’s time to start.

Their digestion system is not ready before 6 months, and there are many other reasons not to start earlier. There are very few trustable pages out there with evidence based material, this is one of them: https://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/delay-solids/