Have been EBF DD and she hit 6mo 2 weeks ago. In the last two weeks, after her 12noon breastfeed, I've been giving her tastes of vegetable and fruit purees. So far, so fine.
I haven't read much about weaning. She's getting hungrier, and, actually, the purees have started throwing the BF-ing into turmoil too.
What should I be doing now? She wants more food. I can fill her up with breast milk, but that's means extra feeds a day, which completely throws a well established routine of BFs into disarray. She gets so hungry now she could BF every 2 hours. I found breast feeding difficult to establish and worked very hard at it and now with her breast feeding on demand again I'm finding it hard again and I can't plan my day at all. I am glued to her.
Do I just give her larger amounts of pureed vegetable and fruit instead of BF-ing every time she's hungry? I have been reading articles on weaning and the way I understand them they are saying I can now just hand her cooked broccoli and carrot batons and expect her to eat them whole? To bite them with her lips? And swallow little chunks of them?
I feel lost. How much solid food should she be having? She's hungry. So what do I give her? Also, should I be giving her water?
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started with fruit and vegetable puree, now what?
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Hazelraphael · 25/05/2015 21:25
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