The reason I am asking is because I am a SAHM myself with a 19 mo who still BFs.
We started BLW at 6 months and I am at this point getting a bit fed up about how little solid food he eats. He only goes to a playgroup type thing on his own for 3 hours a day Mo-Fri, and the rest of the time I am more or less always with him, so breast milk is "there" almost all the time.
He is quite attached to breastfeeding and he is also quite active, so it is not easy to get him to sit down and have a meal as he sees this as an interruption/delay to what he is doing and he is not very patient either...
We do have periods where he seems to improve a lot, eat quite nice amounts three times a day, and he can go around 7 hours without breastfeeding -daytime only- and then something happens and he goes back to looooots of milk and not that much food.
The something is usually bloody teething, he only has his 4 upper teeth (just!) , 2 lower ones and 3 molars. To be fair a think that his slow teething is also partly responsible for the situation as he still finds it difficult to bit into things, although chewing is not a problem IYSWIM.
Although I am not worried about his food intake from a nutritional point of view as he is growing and gaining weight and seems very healthy and active, I am getting a bit fed up with it for my own sake. Also, I have started TTC but my periods are a lot more spaced out than before so a reduction in bfing would be a good thing.
So, basically, what I am asking is. Has anyone else "been there", and, if so, when would you say that your dc started eating a good amount of solid food?
P.S.: sorry for the essay and thanks if you have managed to get to the end!
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Can any SAHMS who have done extended EBF and BLW come and talk to me?
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MeeWhoo · 02/05/2013 10:40
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