There's not much else I've gone through to say, so I'm probably going to only blog once a week or so from now on.
So I'm normally one to tell you don't listen to everything the health professionals tell you as gospel, but with weaning, wait until 17 weeks. We tried our little one on solids at 16 weeks and she was not interested. Exactly one week later she was much more interested about it.
Don't start your baby on baby rice. It's boring. Our little one was not bothered about it. It's one of the easiest things because its so close to her milk, but I could clearly see on her face, why am I not just getting this in a bottle? The first thing you should try her on is banana. Babies LOVE banana. It is really easy for you too, you don't need to cook it, it's cheaper than a jar, really easy to mash.
Your baby will let you know when (s)he is ready for solids. (s)he lets you know by staring at you when you eat. (s)he will watch every mouthful and (s)he starts to get really excited. (s)he may wave her arms, (s)he may open and close her mouth in time to yours. You will know when your baby is getting ready for solids. They officially advise you to start solids if they start to see a slight weight drop at the clinic, which would mean (s)he isn't getting all (s)he needs from her bottle. You will also notice that (s)he isn't satisfied by the bottle and may want more and more milk. I do not advocate using stage 2 "hungry baby" formula to stave off solids. Our parents were advised to start babies on solids at 4 months not 6, and sometimes even still started early. I think we started our baby too early on solids, however, and I would like to suggest that, once you feel your baby is ready for solids, you wait 2 weeks before you give her it.
It will of course help if you like banana, so you can finish what (s)he doesn't have. Baby food jars have really come along in recent years, but it will always be better for you to prepare her food for her, you will know exactly what's in it, no preservatives or anything
