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BLW - am i offering her enough?

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olivo · 05/07/2007 08:39

i am having a bit of a crisis of confidence and need some wise words or reassurance! my dd is 10 months and has been BLW from the start. she would eat all day if i let her, this last week she seems to have been having a growth spurt and is waking at night and taking 2 extra bottles; now a friend has suggested maybe she should be eating more but i think she eats quite a lot anyway.
a typical day would be:
breakfast - 1 oatibix, some melon (and sometimes half a slice of toast and marmite)
snack - fruit - maybe half a pear, or a plum and some grapes
lunch - fresh ravioli (4 or 5 pillows), 3 or 4 florets of brocoli, a couple of baby corns and a yoghurt
snack - eg -crackers and cheese or mini veg biscuits
tea - about 4 rice cakes with hummus, 2 slices of quorn ham, more fruit

she also has 3 x 8oz bottles a day.
what do you think - too much, too little? go with it till she settles out of a growth spurt?
i would welcome any opinions as i'm worried!
TIA

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Aitch · 05/07/2007 10:44

that's loads, c'mon... you know that. dd also went through a spell of waking up in the night at about 10 months, it was a pita. on the suggestion of mrsapron (to whom i am eternally grateful) i moved her teatime forward to 4pm so that she wasn't filling up on less calorie-dense broccoli and really slurped down her milk at bedtime. mind you, i think the was still on 5 x 7oz at that time, the greedy guts.

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olivo · 05/07/2007 10:56

hello aitch - was hoping you might be around! i know she's eating loads - my mum was over this weekend and was gobsmacked at how she sits for ages chomping away so i've gone from worrying about over feeding to worrying about underfeeding!
incidentally aitch, am taking dd for lunch in her new nursery in a bit as they want to see BLW - will point them in the direction of your website too if i may. her current nursery are great with it, even though they hadnt heard of it.
thanks for the reassurance. think i'll up the day time milk too, just in case.

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Highlander · 05/07/2007 11:12

that's alot of food, non?

DS2 is 9 months and I still just throw him the occasional scrap from our plates. No snacks, nothing specially made for him. Yikes - am I starving him?

I thought he was still supposed to get all of his calories from milk?

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Aitch · 05/07/2007 12:22

LOL! imo so long as you're offering scraps until they stop eating them and you tolerate a bit of wasteage then you're probably fine. some babies don't eat as much as others but having the milk on tap means they're not missing out on cals.
by the way, is NO-ONE going to comment on the really fascinating reserach i posted on the blog. i'm making you go and see it, so that i get the hit rate up, lol. so off you go, shoo shoo

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olivo · 05/07/2007 13:25

oh bum, so i am over feeding her!

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Aitch · 05/07/2007 13:29

shoo, shoo...!

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olivo · 05/07/2007 13:38

ok aitch, have looked at the research!! cant comment as i've forgotten my login! anyway, must get back to preparing some food..........

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Highlander · 05/07/2007 14:20

I thought the bit about lack of constipation was interesting. DS2 has never been constipated, yet DS1 was plagued with constyipation until about 9mo. Funnily enough, the advice I was given for DS1 was quite rightly to BF as often as poss, but no-onr mentioned that I should stop solids (mush) and start over. Virtually every PFB I meet has a bunged up 6mo baby - and they're all stuffing the baby full of gloopy baby cereal as a first choice food.

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