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Weaning premature babies
Hi all
Im looking for a bit of advice for weaning premature babies. My daughter was born at 34+4 weeks and is now 4 months old. My hv told me that I should not even consider weaning her until she is 6 months. I thought this was fine until I was reading a few things and it said that premature babies should be weaned early due to being low in iron or something like that.
Has anyone started their premature baby earlier than 6 months and if so how did it go? I just don't know what to do. I think I will mention it to the HV again. I know she is not ready yet to be weaned as she is showing no signs yet of being ready. If she is ready at 5 months though I wouldn't like to hold her off if its ok to wean her at that stage.
Confused!!!!
Louise
Im looking for a bit of advice for weaning premature babies. My daughter was born at 34+4 weeks and is now 4 months old. My hv told me that I should not even consider weaning her until she is 6 months. I thought this was fine until I was reading a few things and it said that premature babies should be weaned early due to being low in iron or something like that.
Has anyone started their premature baby earlier than 6 months and if so how did it go? I just don't know what to do. I think I will mention it to the HV again. I know she is not ready yet to be weaned as she is showing no signs yet of being ready. If she is ready at 5 months though I wouldn't like to hold her off if its ok to wean her at that stage.
Confused!!!!
Louise
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The BLISS website suggests starting prem babies early and my HV suggested holding on until 6 months.
I've found with my girls that they are very good at giving me signs when they are ready for me to take the next step.
Denise re rusks, if you do introduce them make sure they are gluten free. We're playing safe and staying off gluten until they are 8 months (6 months corrected). We found Baby Rice is a great food to start them on and then start on veggies and fruit. Annabel Karmels book is great for ideas and hints.
I was just wondering how long do I keep her on one solid a day before I start introducing more. I was going to give her a different taste every couple of days and alternate the rice but still keep it at 1 feed a day but I am not sure what to do. I don't know when to start on 2 feeds a day and so on. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Louise
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I just wash the bowl and the spoon in hot soapy water. I have loads of spoons though for Kara so I tend to just put the spoon in the dishwasher. Apparently you don't have to sterlise bowls and spoons just the bottles. Hope Kenny enjoys food.
If you are going to use jars watch the ones with the vegetables and are coloured orange as they stain everything and have destroyed a lot of my bibs. I keep these bibs now for this type of food.
Good Luck with weaning its not easy.
Iv bought baby rice to use instead of the Rusks as I was worried they were to sweet and they were not gluten free. I borrowed the Annabel Karmel book from the library as I dont want to use the jars and would rather make my own food. She recommends that pre-term babies are weaned between 4-7 months uncorrected age so im confident im doing the right thing weaning him now and bugger the HV if she doesnt agree.
I started weaning Morgana at 5 1/2 months uncorrected age and she seemsto enjoying it, laughing with food in her mouth and opening wide for the next spoon. I'm trying to make sure to give her higher calorie food with vegetables and fruit, such as greek yoghurt and potato and cheese.
I think most HV don't know much at all about premature babies, so I followed the advice Bliss gave.
Also I went to the library and got the Annabel Karmel book. I am going to be the best cook ever now. Some of the meals look hard though lol. Can you now tell how rubbish a cook I am. I am the plainest eater ever and it looks all so exotic for me lol. I will try it though as I don't want Kara to be as fussy and plain an eater as me and her daddy.
I knew Kenny was needing to try something else because he was still hungry after a 7oz bottle, screaming like he had never been fed for hours. He now gets impatient if you dont get the rice on the spoon quick enough! He wants everything done yesterday and he takes that from his daddy.
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He is now 11lb 8oz but I think the scales are wrong and I dont understand how he could put so little weight on when his appetite is so big.