BLW + impatience

[Blackalice]

Hi

Back again! I was just wanting some reassurance off BLW veterans! Alfie usually has half his bottle, then sits down to eat ( with water which he sips as and when he needs it). However, he'll munch a couple or maybe three or four bits of food then start crying until we get him out and give him the rest of his bottle then he wants to lie on the floor and play. He won't eat at all if he has all his bottle first. My thoughts are that he's having a good go at munching on food, and it definitely goes in to some degree as his nappies will bear witness, so it's a good start. Has anyone else found babies get impatient? I keep thinking he'll gradually sit and eat for longer and longer as he matures. His attention span is short with any activity at all. He even has to have his bottles in several short bursts with play breaks in between.

Anyway, sorry to ramble! Just wondered if anyone else found this and if it improved as baby got older?

Thanks guys! You're lifesavers!

Hugs xxx

Beck and Alfie (6 months and less than 2 weeks into BLW)

[Quootiepie]

Hiya - I started the other day my DS cried after about 10 minutes, and I took him out of the highchair - he did manage a bite and a play 1st though

[aitch71]

my dd has always been a colossal pain in the arse about drinking her bottle. i have seen other babies slug down their entire bottle in one shot, but DD never did and at nine months still likes to have a wee break in the middle. (i try to make sure she doesn't get to the end of her bottle, though, as i'd rather she control her own appetite).

so when i started weaning, i consciously decided to keep food separate from milk, timing-wise, so it's never really been a huge problem, tbh.

i think that i wrote a thing about it on the blog 'routine, shmoutine' as i recall... but of course the blog is down at the moment. it should be back up tomorrow, though.

basically, i do feed dd her milk first and foremost, as that's the most important thing nutritionally. the rest is all supposed to be fun and larks, so i reckon i leave about an hour or maybe a bit less between milk and solid food.

even at nine months, she doesn't eat three meals a day, normally it's breakfast, lunch and snacks, or breakfast, snacks and tea, it depends on what we are up to. and sometimes it's a late breakfast and snacks and snacks, if i really can't be bothered.

snacks are fruit, cheese, rice cakes, veggies etc, whatever i have jammed in the buggy bag. (a 'meal', ladies, could be coq au vin, spag bol, goulash, chicken korma, we live it large in this house let me tell you... today we went to wagamama and she went nuts for noodles, chicken and soy beans).

anyway, this has been a bit of a ramble, but basically don't bother at the moment. food is going in, that's a start. and you can see if he likes eating on your lap as well.

keep up the good work...

[aitch71]

hah! i've just realised that i've implied that dd drinks her bottle in two goes. i wish. try ten goes.

[wartywarthog]

i b/f, but i figure this doesn't matter. i give dd a full milk feed and then about an hour later i give her some food. so the two are seperate. i find i have to feed her in a boring environment otherwise she keeps wanting to check what's going on around her and does the 'twist and look' which is rather painful.

i'd try seperating the milk and solid feed and see if that makes a difference.

[ledodgyrobespierre]

Or try giving him his food 20 mins-30 mins earlier than he would normally have his bottle so he isn't too hungry iyswim then let him have his bottle later.

[aitch71]

how are you getting on, blackalice?

[Blackalice]

Hiya

We're not doing too badly thanks. I've tried separating milk and solids which helps a bit. He's been munching three or four chips each meal - is this normal amount? (By chips I mean pieces of fruit/veg not fries LOL!) He's great with soft fruit like peach/mango but does gag on veg.

Beck xxx

[wartywarthog]

that's great! sounds perfect.

[aitch71]

sounds excellent to me, well done.

[Blackalice]

When I say eating he's not completely finishing them and lots falls back out of his mouth! However he's having a good go and his nappies are full of "interesting" contents LOL! It's amazing how little you think has gone in but how much comes out!

[aieeeeeeeeeeeeeetch71]

that sounds exactly like my dd in the beginning. they can't move things aobut in their hands properly to finish them, and they drop the bits that are too big out of their mouths. clever huh?