I'm new too and hope this ends up in the right place! I need your help!! I live in France and am married to a Frenchman so our five and a half month old daughter is half Brit half French. I really want to BLW but I'm not sure I've got the strength to fight - so far I've fought the battle of breastfeeding (over here I've had to fight the "it doesn't have everything she needs" lobby paid by certain formula manufacturers), and the washable nappy fight. The problem I have is that DD goes to a nanny 4 days a week who when I casually dropped the idea of BLW into the conversation looked at me as if I was suggesting a diet of vodka and kebabs! I mentioned it to the paediatrician (no HV here but paediatrician every month) who asked me why I wanted to choke my baby! I haven't even dared mention it to the mother-in-law yet who still has problems with be BFing - "so bad for the baby"!!!! Fortunately hubby is used to my "weird" ways so is quite 'whatever' about it. Excuse the LONG ramble - I am getting to my point - DD was born at term and weighed 5lb 10oz (I was 5lb 5oz at term) and she is slowly putting on weight, at 5 months she was 12lb 3oz for 24 inches so is in proportion just right at the bottom of the scale. She is in fantastic health, very alert (rolling over at 3 months), very happy, sleeps well on the whole and is generally doing well if you ignore the weight thing. So my thing is - am I likely to have a problem with weight if she's not been piling it on so far? I intend BFing until a year if all goes well - I express so she can take my milk from a bottle when at the nanny's which works pretty well despite me feeling very cow-like! Also any tips for defending myself against nannies, mother-in-laws and paediatricians who all think I'm an English mad cow?!? Am in the process of translating Gill Rapley's report into French to show to them in the hope the magic word "UNICEF" might make them think I'm not out to kill my baby in some weird way of displaying delayed post-natal depression! Thank you in advance to anyone who can help! (DD will be 6 months on 8th June - would like to start then, to get her used to it she sits in her high chair with us at mealtimes and watches us eat while playing with the toys I place on her highchair, she's already very keen to put her toys in her mouth and bottom 2 teeth are apparently on their way.)