My 8 month old is gradually sinking on the centiles - was born on the 75th, sunk to 25th by about 12 weeks, hadn't had him weighed for ages but got him weighed yesterday and he's now between 9th and 25th.
He's only eating small amounts of solids - maybe 4 or 5 mouthfuls 3 times a day (we're doing BLW as he hates being spoon fed). He's still breastfeeding 7 or 8 times in 24 hrs, including through the night. My HV said what I needed to do was get him to take more solids. The way she said I should do this was to cut down his breastfeeds to 3 or 4 a day and do some 'cold turkey' days where I leave him with someone who can only give him solids or milk in a cup (he never got the hang of bottles)
I'm finding it hard to believe that cutting down breastfeeding is going to help a baby who's not putting weight on well. I did say 'but surely there are more calories in breastmilk than solids' but she muttered something about 'by this age they need solids as well'. I do get that he might need solids as well - clearly his current diet isn't working brilliantly - but I can't believe restricting his breastfeeding is going to help. She said that by this age he shouldn't be demand feeding, whereas I kind of hoped to carry on demand feeding and that he would take to solids and stop demanding so often.
So any experience of getting a centile slipping, not that keen on solids baby to eat more solids? Do I really have to restrict his bfing to get him to take more solids? When I try to offer solids when he's hungry he just gets grizzly and wont' eat them. I'm already doing high fat food (butter and cream cheese on top of everything!), eating with him, miming pleasure and chewing, offering choice and no-choice and in high chair and in lap.
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Lovage · 29/03/2007 20:25
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