DS is coming up to 7mths, we weaned when he was about 5.5mths. We weaned early on advice, he was prem (7 weeks early) and was an horrendous milk drinker - eg, 2/3oz and that was him done at nearly every feed!!
Weaning initially went brilliantly, he was soon having 3 meals a day and puddings, and his milk feeds actually improved. We dropped the 10.30 DF last week as he'd started to refuse morning bottle and breakfast, and he was then refusing his 11am bottle. Since dropping DF he has had more milk at 7am and 11am. However, over the past few days he is pretty much refusing all meals, clamps his lips together and that's your lot. I have tried EVERYTHING, persevering, offering different foods, offering jars (purees), homecooked food (purees), sweet stuff, savoury stuff, feeding straight after his bottle, waiting an hour, giving him a spoon to do it himself.......... you name it I've tried it! He's refusing foods that he previously threw down his neck because he loved them, we've tried offering finger food but doesn't want to know..... I'm at a total loss.
This is our routine
7am bottle 4-5oz
8am cereal/fruit (if he takes any)
11am bottle 4-5oz
12noon lunch (as above)
3pm 5oz
5pm tea (again, as above)
7pm 4-6oz.
When he was having just milk and that was going badly I always had the hope that he'd eat better once we weaned, now I don't know what to do. I really don't want to drop his 11am bottle in the hope that he'll eat more during the day because he'd hardly have anything, although milk feeds have improved you can see that they aren't great. Please help.
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Jack2601 · 22/08/2009 13:27
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