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Need a little pep talk

KaeldrasmommyKaeldrasmommy member
in November 2011 Moms

So I'm just a bit of a pushover when it comes to the pedi. She's been reminding me at every appointment that DD doesn't need solid food until 6 months. Well DD disagreed. We started her on solids just before 5 months. She watched our food, grabbed our food, and just flat started screaming when we wouldn't let her have it. She immediately caught onto opening her mouth and even mushing things up. She's had no poop problems. She was ready.

I'm afraid that her pedi is going to chew me out tomorrow and I'm going to end up feeling like an azz. So give me the pep talk, the 'you're her mommy and know what's best for her' one. I'm going to need it in the morning when I suddenly feel like I need to defend my decision. It was easy to tell everyone that I was going to do what the pedi said, no matter what anyone else had to say, but not so easy the other way around.

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  • mbgreenwaltmbgreenwalt member

    I love my pedi because she gives advice, but is totally supportive of whatever we choose to do.  I wouldn't go to a pedi that made me feel that way.  She sees your child every 2 months, I see my child everyday, I know what's best. You were confident in your decision to feed her and it is done.

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    It's your choice and if your baby was ready and didn't have problems than you are fine.  Don't let her get to you.  You are the mom and they give the same advice to hundreds of people and it can't be the same for everyone.  Your baby is an individual and just needed to do things a little different.

     

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  • NineTwentyOhEightNineTwentyOhEight

    it's kind of ironic, we have the exact OPPOSITE problem! hah.

    The practice we go to really pushes rice cereal at four months...we're doing more of a BLW approach, so I didn't even start offering solids til I felt Ada was ready/interested and that was around 5.5 months. 

    At our six month well visit last week the pedi said "after six months she's not getting enough nutrition from breastmilk and she should be eating three meals a day by now." I kind of looked at her like she had three heads and just said, um, ok.

    The AAP suggests exclusive BFing til six months. I can't imagine that a baby should go from EBF to three meals a day just because she's magically six months old. 

    Anyway, my long-winded way of saying, don't stress, tell her you felt LO was ready and it's going well. 

    I need to find a new pedi.

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  • KaeldrasmommyKaeldrasmommy member
    imageNineTwentyOhEight:

    it's kind of ironic, we have the exact OPPOSITE problem! hah.

    The practice we go to really pushes rice cereal at four months...we're doing more of a BLW approach, so I didn't even start offering solids til I felt Ada was ready/interested and that was around 5.5 months. 

    At our six month well visit last week the pedi said "after six months she's not getting enough nutrition from breastmilk and she should be eating three meals a day by now." I kind of looked at her like she had three heads and just said, um, ok.

    The AAP suggests exclusive BFing til six months. I can't imagine that a baby should go from EBF to three meals a day just because she's magically six months old. 

    Anyway, my long-winded way of saying, don't stress, tell her you felt LO was ready and it's going well. 

    I need to find a new pedi.

    That's batty. It all went well though, she just asked what LO liked and made sure that I give some of everything, not just fruit or cereal, but veggies and whatnot.
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