Hubby desperate to get almost 6 month old son to eat

[archiesmummy]

Hi, We have been holding out for 6 months with feeding and are gonna do blw, but lately my hubby has become more and more eager to start already. I am also excited about weaning him, but don't have a problem waiting the 3 weeks. Has anyone had similar problems???

[CorrieDale]

Awwwwww, an enthusiastic daddy. Sweet! Tell him that the sooner you start weaning, the sooner the unattractive nappies will start. Perhaps take him to John Lewis changing room and hang around while toddlers have their nappies changed? Yep, that's what the nappies are like when babies start on solids. That should curb his enthusiasm. Oh, and if you haven't seen what a baby can do with his first well-cooked broccoli floret, then you have no idea of what mess is. We found it on the curtain, in DS's ears, eyebrows, hair, nappy, everywhere. Get oilcloths (big ones) and put them on the floor. And the table. And a high-chair that is very easy to clean.

[archiesmummy]

His mum absolutely.!!! Why do mothers have so many oppinions??? Probably also wants my btreasts back to normal (and to himself). I've told him about nappies, mess and hassle and he still wants to..

[threebob]

Get him chopping and pureeing and freezing fruit and veg for the day - that should cure him!

[CorrieDale]

ok, if telling isn't working, you need actual demonstration. Take bowl of weetabix, drop blobs on the floor and the highchair, smear it on the table, a bib and a vest. Wait for ten minutes (this is how long it will take DH to clean baby sufficiently to be able to pick him out of the highchair). Then get DH to clean the weetabix of the table floor and highchair, and scrape it off the bib and vest so that they can go in the wash. If he's still enthusiastic after that (and the trip around John Lewis changing room) then get out the steamer and the broccoli! One consolation with blw is that if your DS isn't ready to eat, then he won't.

[CorrieDale]

oh, and let DS have his very first meal at granny's! That'll larn her not to interfere....

[intergalacticwalrus]

My mother was always harping on about getting DS to eat from about 3 months. She was always asking if I had given him tea in his bottle too, and turning up at the house with milky bar puddings from the time he was 4 months (mind you, I got to eat them, so not complaining) She told me that I was weaned by 10 weeks

I was kind of glad when DS showed no signs of interest in solids until he was about 9 months old. I'm sure he did it to spite his interfereing granny!!!!

[archiesmummy]

Yes intergalacticwalrus, I'm sure he did. My mum is just as bad as my mil. And every1 in my baby gruops. Don't know wots wrong wit every1..
Will go and tell hubby all wot u said CorrieDale, thanx

[bourneville]

archiesmummy - it's a pain isn't it, pressure from mums etc. my mum used to kind of bug me, she was never very interfering but even her opinions got to me. when you're a new mum & your mum is your only real knowledgeable support it's hard to ignore her (i didn't have mumsnet back then). Now that i'm much more confident anything she says is like water off a duck's back and in fact i feel i know more than she does now. I wish i could go back in time and not worry so much about what she thought.
In your case of course you have your DH to think about too... But in relation to your mums, just be hard as steel & do things the way you want to do them and ignore any of their comments!