Weaning nurse?

[Rox9797]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has seen a weaning nurse/midwife? I am formula feeding my 5 m/o, I have a friend who is breastfeeding her baby who is also 5 m/o and she had a visit from a nurse who specified in weaning and next stages of babies life but I’ve not had anything like this? I did check and it wasn’t her Heath visitor or anything? Just wondering if this was for breastfed babies only? TIA

[Seb9]

I went to a weaning course that my local authority did, but not sure these are running with covid, so maybe Google your area and weaning and see what comes up? There's normally classes about weaning. I didn't find it particularly helpful if went over the signs that their ready to eat and what sort of things to try to avoid because of the sugar levels in them. Also that things like baby rice and porridge are a bit of a con as they don't have any nutritional value. I used ready brek instead of any baby specific ones for example and at first have plain yoghurt with fruit in it rather than fruit yoghurt.

It's really not much more help than you can find online. I'd already decided that I'd due puree led with finger foods over doing baby led as I felt more comfortable with that. It's worked out fine for us, daughter has a good appetite and tries everything we put on front of her.

There are also some good weaning recipes pages on Facebook and Instagram (if you want to join baby led pages, you normally can't be doing any traditional purees methods)

If you google baby led weaning and traditional weaning you can normally work out which route is best for you.

Get ready for some mess and fun 😁

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My baby was formula fed and I never had a weaning nurse etc. Just asked the HV questions whenever I went to weigh in. To be honest they weren’t very helpful with it and just worked it all out myself

[Claireeeeeeeeeeeee]

I breastfed my first and for weaning it made no difference in my area. Everyone could book onto a course. A few of my friends did it and didnt find it particularly helpful. It was very much focused on what the person leading it thought was the correct way and not the options. I didnt bother and had no problems just using books and the internet. Though I did do a baby first aid course so I knew what to do if my little one was choking.

[roxannacar]

This would normally be through the health visitor if in the UK. Midwives discharge babies at 14 days and do not get involved beyond that. If your friend is in your area ask her for the contact details but this.is definitely not a usual service everywhere.