Weaning

[Blonds]

Hi there Im new to this site and my son is 5 months on Saturday and Ive just started weaning him. I was following Gina Ford but I now want to follow Annabel Karmel instead. Im just a bit confused by the weaning times. In AK book it has Early Morning, Breakfast, Lunch, Tea and Bedtime. My sons current feeding times are

7.30am feed
9-10am nap
11am feed
12-2pm nap
2.30pm feed
5pm feed 3 oz (cant wait till after bath)
6pm Bath
6.30pm bedtime feed

So when AK suggests starting with baby rice at lunch is this 2.30pm as it does seem quite late for his lunch, with GF I was giving it to him at 11.30 before his 12pm nap.

Any advice would be great as I want to follow her weaning routine.

Many thanks

[DrP]

As you said yourself you want to follow her feeding routine so that is exactly what you do.

Forget about the timetables in the books, they are only meant as rough guidelines. If you want to do lunch at 11:30 that's fine, equally if you want to wait till 2:30 there is nothing wrong with that.

With your routine, and given that bed time seems to be really early I would go with breakfast with the earliest feed, lunch with the 11am feed and dinner with the 5pm feed.

When I was weaning my son I just went with trial and error till I found what suited us best. We ended up with breakfast at 8:30-9, dinner around 1:30-2 and tea around 6:30. These times suited us for two reasons - they fit in with my sons schedule and they were also around the times that we ate as a family so it was nice to all sit down together.