You could maybe encourage her to use something a bit better for her baby than rusk.  I've always found it odd that people think it is okay to wean their children with a sweet biscuit for every meal.  Hardly balanced diet, is it.  Baby rice or some pureed vegetables would be far better if you are taking the risk of early weaning.

I have not actually spoken to her yet and don't really know what to say. The damage is done now. I don't suppose she will stop now as she will have a screaming baby on her hands. Sis in law thought it was funny that she has a rusk.

I agree with pp 2 months is far too early. i did my ds at 16 weeks but that was the advice then. But with dd I intend to go as near to 6 months as i can. Still exclusively bf at moment so hopefully I'll make it even if I moved to formnula before then.

It's all well and good grandparents etc saying well we did it with you and you ok but have they conducted studies of everyone in our age groups and seen how many people have asthma coeliacs etc I doubt it. As pp said the scientists do it for us!

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Only just read this thread and I must say it's absolutely shocking trying to feed a 2 month old baby rusks! I did wean my DD early at 5 months, but that was onto very runny babyrice mixed with EBM, and she had nothing but that until a week before she was 6 months. Now she has family foods, fingerfoods etc, and we hardly ever give her jars, she hates them anyway and much prefers my cooking!

I can't believe ppl just disregard the adivce given so happily, after all they don't change the guidelines for no reason! there are teams and teams of scientists and medical professionals resesarching all the time, who are we to argue with them? If people just read the birth to five book we were all given by the healthvisitor there would be a lot less confusion.  I know I am the first to say I'm not best friends with the HV's but that book is really good and the most up to date source of information around.

Yeah I noticed that the first baby foods still say 4 months. But I won't need to go down tha baby aisle anymore as the Plum organic porridge that my daughter likes has been taken off the shelves. I don't know why. But I bought the last 4 packets in the reduced section to keep her going. She is 13 months and won't have any ceral other than weetaix and plum and bannana porridge.

Back to the post.... I don't think she even has a problem with it. Probably a case of Grandma saying well we did it with you and you are fine.

Well she has asthma and is about 4 stone overweight, so is she fine?

I believe it's said these days that the protective lining in stomach and bowels is not fully developed until about 17 weeks, so can only cope with breastmilk (which helps to form the protective layer somehow) or formula until then.  If you wean before that you can cause long term digestive or bowel issues, allergies, dehydration, stomach upsets (vomiting and diarrhoea) and constipation. 

This is just pieced together from things I have heard and read, but that's the overall picture I am getting.

i weaned my bubba on baby rice at 5 mths.but didnt give her anything else.also i cant stand shop baby foods-i think its better to wean on home food-i did carrot one week,potato the next.that way i cd tell if she was ok with it!

Under no circumstances unless under medical advice should a baby under 16 weeks have anything but milk

Especially if the rusk have gluten in them, feeding a baby this yound could make them extremly poorly and more likely to be prone to allergies in later life

I agree girls, another problem is that baby food on the shelves still says from 4 months!!! x

Does anyone know what the problems are?

I know I weaned my son at 4 months but the guidleines were 12 weeks then but they tried to get me to go longer anyway. So it was weird when my daughter was 6 months. But it was lovely as feeding her was a much nicer experience to do it for longer.

my 2 dd's who are now 5 and 7 were both weaned at 3 months as i was advised by the hv as that was the norm then. Now these guldelines are out that say early weaning can cause problems in later life ............ wat they fail to state is that they have proof of this and wat age the symptoms and causes of early weaning will start to show. x

I had loads of people telling me things like 'it's ok to rub a bit of alcahole on their gums wen teething' but the very same people were telling me it's 'terrible that I still hadn't dun controlled crying' wiv my 8 months old and 'why wasn't he sleepin thru?'! People hav got their priorities mixed up. people feel the pressure to get lo to sleep thru early so fill em up on solids and hungry baby milk etc

My cousin weaned her baby at eight weeks onto rusks, he was formula fed and taking twelve ounces every feed.  You can't really do anything more than make sure they know the guidelines.  They make the decisions.

You only have to look on 0-3 on here to see that you can be educated but still do something like this, so many people advocate early weaning because "guidelines change all the time, so why follow them" and "X and Y did it and their children are okay". 

People get advice from these forums and see a load of threads where other women have done the same thing and it gets passed on that this is common behaviour, therefore it must be okay.  No one seems to challenge it because it causes a massive argument because people are so very defensive about how they raise their children.

She breast fed her 2 son's so I am very supriesed she is un educated. But maybe thei guidelines for weaning were different then. But her eldest is only 6.

The recommendation is still 6 months but some people do still wean very early. It's a lack of education about the set backs of weaning early and the benefits of weaning later, plus people always saying things like 'give em a bit of rusk, it's fine, I did it with mine'!

My sis in laws friend (who I am friends with also) has a little girl who is not yet 3 months. She is totally bf her.

Sis in law has now told me that she is giving her lo a rusk every morning.

I am confused, I was under the impression weaning was still at 6 months?

I cannot begin to think how this is harming her baby's health and interfearing with her milk supply.

My two are 2 1/2 and 13 months and I am not b/f anymore. But I am totally gobsmacked!