Weaning
[Note before: by weaning I mean the introduction of solid foods (complementary feeding) and not weaning off the breast]. There is sooo much advice when it comes to weaning, most of which is conflicting. Everyone has their own ideas about the best time to start weaning and the best way to do it. It's a minefield! From about four months old we were receiving mail from formula companies about getting ready to wean, and our health visitor advised us at just over five months that Isaac was ready to wean and we could start whenever we wanted. I spent a while looking into this, because I'd also been told you shouldn't wean until six months. This advice comes from the World Health Organisation who say that complementary feeding should begin at six months as baby's gut is not ready for solid food before this time, but that this is the peak time of baby's development to introduce them to these new experiences, tastes and textures. The virgin gut theory theorizes that ...