I plan to do BLW at 6 months and have just bought Gill Rapley's book but haven't read it yet so I'm hoping somebody can help me here (please).
Yesterday I asked hubby to get some formula from the supermarket and he came back with a jar of baby juice too. He was all excited because I'd said I wanted to wean at 6 months but he'd seen the 'suitable from 4 months' thing on the label and thought they'd invented something new that I didn't know about! He bought it as a treat for Leyla. I explained to him about how they didn't change the law about labelling when they changed the guidelines for weaning so he understands now why I want to wait until 6 months, but I can see that he still really really wants to give her the juice at 4 months (in a few weeks).
I'm definitely not going to start weaning until 6 months, but do you think it would do any harm to give her the one jar of juice at 4 months? I think she'd probably spit it out anyway as she hates anything other than milk (even nice tasting medicines/folic acid come straight back out) but I can see it would make OH really happy to let her try. Also, I make all of the baby decisions and I want to encourage input from OH. I'd feel really mean to just say NO to the juice.
What would you do?
Yesterday I asked hubby to get some formula from the supermarket and he came back with a jar of baby juice too. He was all excited because I'd said I wanted to wean at 6 months but he'd seen the 'suitable from 4 months' thing on the label and thought they'd invented something new that I didn't know about! He bought it as a treat for Leyla. I explained to him about how they didn't change the law about labelling when they changed the guidelines for weaning so he understands now why I want to wait until 6 months, but I can see that he still really really wants to give her the juice at 4 months (in a few weeks).
I'm definitely not going to start weaning until 6 months, but do you think it would do any harm to give her the one jar of juice at 4 months? I think she'd probably spit it out anyway as she hates anything other than milk (even nice tasting medicines/folic acid come straight back out) but I can see it would make OH really happy to let her try. Also, I make all of the baby decisions and I want to encourage input from OH. I'd feel really mean to just say NO to the juice.
What would you do?