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there's advice on line and i think your health visitor can help as every baby is dfferent.

We started weaning ours early as he cried after he'd had a full milk feed and was clearly still hungry

He was 5 months old. We started him on things like baby rice for a few weeks then sweet potato, courgette and pear etc

great book to get is the annabel karmel total meal planner. Great meals and ones where you add more stock etc to make them up into soups for the adults so you wernt cooking for you and baby seperatley.

I was also very confused about amounts. I.e if my baby was now eating solids how much milk should she still have been having etc.

The book gives you meal plans for the week and although I didnt stick to her choices for each day it gave me an idea of when to give milk and when to give juices etc. And it gives meal plans from first tastes up to 12 months plus.

my issue around weaning is that our little one seems to eat an enormous amount of puree, he just loves it! - I keep being told let the baby lead you so am keeping on going (and going and going) until he finally stops but I think at some point he might well explode :-)

am i doing the right thing??

nylonmeals Wrote:

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> my issue around weaning is that our little one

> seems to eat an enormous amount of puree, he just

> loves it! - I keep being told let the baby lead

> you so am keeping on going (and going and going)

> until he finally stops but I think at some point

> he might well explode :-)

> am i doing the right thing??


Is he still taking enough milk?

My son was 9wks prem as well and I waited until he was 6mo corrected (so 8months.) All went well at that point and he progressed as normal baby of 6 months would have. Have had no issues with allergies or anything like that which can sometimes crop up with solids given too early. I had a great resource for all of this stuff...The Premature Baby Book by Dr. Sears (from the US) it was great and gave lots of good info specific to preemies.
thanks everyone for their useful advice. i'll have a look at the different books you suggested and will give it a go. i did ask my health visitor and she was not the most helpful to say the least, she only gave me a timetable with 3 columns with breastmilk and infant rice milk written on it :( when i asked her a few questions, how when why ... she didnt seem to enjoy that at all .... i guess she hears those questions too often :)

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