Hi,

I've not poseted on here much but felt compelled to after seeing CV talk about weaning, She said that she weaned them at 16 weeks or 16lbs.....the next thing you see is Mia's mum spooning porridge into her mouth to 'get her through the night'. I am not sure how old Mia was but she can only have been between 8-12 weeks. Government guidelines are that weaning at 6 months, but definatly not before 4 months as it is well known now that babies organs are not developed enough to cope with solids and it could be damaging. Yes i know that I was probably weaned at 12 weeks as that was the thing to do then, but now we know this isn't good, so why was it allowed to be on the program???????????? To me it was just advocating that weaning before 4/6 months was ok. especially as Mia then slept from 7-7! This is so not generally the case, what are other peoples opinions on this?

Pearl

Yes the baby was under twelve weeks and the main objective of giving solids at such an early age was so the parents could drop the 11pm and get the baby sleeping 12 hours.
Gina Ford explains on her website www.contentedbaby.com why this advice was dangerous to such a young baby.
Replacing a milk feed with porriage at this age denies the baby the essential vitamins and mineral which it gets from the milk, and is not found in baby porriage.

This is another example of Claire Verity's methods of forcing babies to sleep longer, and also putting thier health at risk.

Ditto everything Franco has just said, plus if you give porridge at this age (or rusks) as opposed to baby rice, you are also exposing them to gluten far too early, which increases the risks of them developing a number of digestive problems, from Crohns to Coeliac disease. Even baby rice (which has virtually no nutritional content) can cause constipation in a baby this young, which can have rammifications in later too.

All these risks for 12 hours unbroken sleep.

Buy a Baby Annabel.........

it does not work to introduce solids so a baby will sleep 12 hours, the poridge will be digested long before 12hrs and quite frankly the baby is likely to wake after a poop anyhow.

or terrible colic, I know. I tryed this after someone recomended it to me at around 5mnths and didnt coninue with it. I dread to think the damage it could do to a baby as young as 8 to 12wks. And they wonder whey people are outraged???

Babies digestive systems are not mature enough to cope with 'food' at this age. It is VERY, VERY DANGEROUS.

I actually know someone who fed her baby a rusk at 11 weeks and he ended up in hospital. At 2yrs old he still has problems and she continues to feel guilty to this day.

Crohns and Coeliac disease, like Continuum Momma says, are a real risk and last a whole lifetime.

Maybe some babies do manage to cope while others can't... but who in their right mind would want to take that risk with their precious babies health? Would you leave your baby in the house alone while you nip out to the shops for 15mins?? ... don't think so!