My youngest weaned herself at 9mths. My other two were around a year old or a little older.

A concerning development indeed ! I also find the type of foods given to young babies are concerning…talking about rusks, marie biscuits, baby porridge, veggie crisps/chips, fruit filled bars and pouches, biscuits, yoghurt pouches and what not all ! None of these foods grow on the tree or come from the cow….many of them so processed !! Scary !

I thought my baby would struggle with breastmilk alone as he’s such a big eater. He’s nearly 4 months old and is absolutely thriving on just breastmilk. I’ll continue holding off introducing solids until 6 months, there a too many long term consequences of weaning early. I’m sick of everyone saying “I was feeding my babies milk arrowroot buscuits at 4 weeks and they turnex out fine”. Comments like that are irresponsible.

I introduced solids at around 3 or 4 months because my baby needed more than just my breast milk – I didn’t stop feeding him till he was nearly 12 months old when he didn’t want to continue. However, there was no bought food, just vegies we ate at home pureed and rusks soaked in my breast milk until he was able to eat/chew/suck them to death himself.

When my little one came off breast milk, I fed her fresh fruit and vegies not pureed “junk” food.

I was just totally guided by my Maternal Health Nurse. I had no idea what to do, so took my direction from them.

I sure think that early weaning and giving over processed junk and sugary baby food is a cause of obesity. It shocking what kind of baby foods are being sold as so called healthy !

Not sure if I completely agree with this. While I think it is best to follow the recommendations of breast feeding as long as possible in the first year and waiting for six months before introducing solids I dont think we can blame the obesity crisis on parents not following this. Junk food advertising, supermarket shelves being stacked with sugary drinks and less time being spent outdoors are far more likely to be contributing to the problem.

many people have babies without the first clue of how they need to be cared for, when they dont Receive enough information from a Reliable source they turn to easy googleing which can Send them off in very wrong Directions.

Milk should really continue as long as possible. If it’s not possible to breastfeed, then formula. Babies are developing bones/teeth and immunity, they need the best possible start.

Some medical professionals are saying to start solids early to stop allergies.
Regardless of whether a baby is breastfed or formula I don’t know of a baby that wasn’t having milk at least once a day at any less than 2 years.
With breastfeeding Mothers are normally told to start solids at about 6 months of age. Initially it may only be 3 – 4 baby spoons of pureed sweet potato, pumpkin or fruit. I don’t consider that to be junk food. Once they are sitting up they are watching you eat.

I agree that education is very important so that parents make the right choice for their children.

the rules change all the time but all of my kids have started eating at 4 months, fruit and veg purees and baby rice,my two year old has only just started having chippies a few months ago. My last two babies were premature so under the care of paediatricians and we were told they were over 4 months now and to start them on solids

There could be something true indeed. On the other side not everybody is able to breastfeed for 6 months.