I know the thread title makes me sound pretty clueless, I'm just a bit anxious about it I suppose. DS is 6 months old and has always had a huge appetite. I started weaning early at 4 months as he was drinking sometimes in excess of 49oz of hungry baby milk from 7am til 7pm. At first it was just tastes but for some time he has been settled into what I think is a good routine and it seems to work well for him. He still has as much milk and three meals each day. His feeding routine is very much lead by him and he seems to want his milk/food at the same times every day (which suits me). Current feeding pattern is - 7am a 9oz bottle and baby porridge, 9am a 6oz bottle, 12pm pureed fruit and 6oz bottle, 3pm 6oz bottle, 5pm pureed veg and 6oz bottle, bath, quiet time, bottle then bed at 7pm. I realise that it sounds like a LOT but he never leaves any milk or any of his pureed food and in fact cries when the fruit is all gone (though as the portion is quite big I really wouldn't want to give him any more than he already has. I don't think its because he is hungry, more that he likes the taste as he doesn't do this after eating his veg) I'm not necessarily planning to immediately make any changes to his routine but I am starting to think about what comes next. I know that there are different foods he could now start trying and that soon I should start pureeing the food less and less... But I suppose I just want a bit of hand holding! I did speak to his health visitor about his feeding pattern etc but she simply told me off for weaning him early and gave no advice other than I should only give him 'tiny tiny tastes' of pureed food. Sorry, he's past that now and seems fine and he would no doubt be pretty angry if I reduced his food intake now. Any advice would be gratefully received!
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weaning - what comes after pureed food?
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HotBrickOfJizz · 15/09/2012 22:22
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