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Follow the suggested times for feeds, but instead of giving all of the milk first at the 11am feed it is important that you only give half of the milk, so that your baby is hungry enough to accept the solids. Continue to reduce the time he is on the breast before he has his solids by 2 to 3 minutes every couple of days. If your baby...

Many babies continue to need a feed at 10pm to get them through the night until solids are well established. If your baby is following the Contented Little Baby (CLB) routines during the day and sleeping through from 11pm to 7am, with only a small feed at 10/10.30pm, then introducing solids and weaning him off this feed should be fairly simple. As the amount of solids he takes...

Weaning at six to seven months The previous DoH advice was to wean between four and six months. It advised that new foods were introduced every 3–4 days. This was to reduce the risk of allergies, and avoid solids being increased too quickly, resulting in too rapid a decrease in the milk intake. Starting weaning at six months coincides with the age that a baby’s natural store of...