to wish there was more support with weaning!

[Beth2511]

I'm in the position of not knowing anyone else with babies or having much advice from parents on how to wean DD.

DD is ten months and refuses breakfast, normally has a decent lunch and dinner and a couple of snacks during the day. Snacks include the likes of rice cakes, yoghurts, biscuits, fruit etc.

Now the bit I'm completely stuck on is that despite all this food I just can not get her to take water so she is still drinking just as much milk, she hasn't dropped any feeds yet. I have tried a few things to get her to drop milk and start water but nothing works.

She also won't touch breakfast. I don't know what to do next and everything online contradicts and I feel so lost :(

The Food before one is for fun is not wholly accurate, potentially dangerous and people need to stop spouting it blindly.

Blog discussing WHO view

The World Health Organisation recommend supplementary feeding, the above blog post presents it well and provides the relevant links for more in-depth reading.

I second accessing the weaning and food workshops at the children's centre they can be really useful, and I know it's difficult but try to relax about it (speaking from experience)

Yeah thenfun before 1 isnt really accurate I agree late weaning can cause all sorts of developmental /health problems especiially with speech. Not that you need to worry op your baby is eating food.

You sound like you're doing fine and your DD is eating quite well for her age please try not to worry too much

My DS is 14 months and eating 3 good sized meals a day, along with the odd small snack/cup of milk. But a few months ago he was fussy and uninterested in food, don't get upset as you are doing everything right. I found myself getting stressed out when DS wouldn't eat but that makes it harder as they get stressed out too and you end up battling with them which is no good.

Maybe try offering different types of food at breakfast? My DS loves weetabix. Or is your DD waking at an odd time - perhaps too early? This could affect her appetite. My DS had a phase of 5am waking for months argh! and he wouldn't want breakfast then, only milk.

And just keep offering the cup of water or maybe try a different cup if you want. Don't worry though because your DD will be hydrated enough from her milk. It took my DS absolutely ages to get the hang of drinking it rather than dribbling/throwing it all down himself.