I know there's a board for this but posting here for traffic. I'm getting really stressed and worried about my 8 month old dd eating. Weaning isn't going well, she barely eats anything and when she does it has to be very smooth purées, no textured stuff. She's also started refusing and fussing with bottles. I don't know if I'm giving her too much or too little. This is what she has in a day and how she takes it. Any advice would be so appreciated:
4-5am - wakes up for first bottle of the day, roughly 5-6oz. No issues with this one then she'll go back to sleep.
7-8am - breakfast. Usually porridge, fruit or dairy free yoghurt (she's got CMPA so we are diary free weaning). She will eat some of this but not much.
9:30 - a small bottle before her morning nap, usually about 4oz if that.
12-1pm - by this point I'd expect her to be really hungry but she never seems too bothered. She will take a bottle eventually but after lots of fussing and usually only around 4oz again.
2pm - I try her with lunch at this point. Some puréed veg or something like that usually. She will have a few bites if I'm lucky but more often than not it's a total waste of time. She'll just make mess and not actually eat anything. I used to try her with this at 12-1pm but she'd never have anything then either and it would worry me that she'd gone so long without a feed so I gave her a bottle then instead so at least she was having something.
4pm - depending on if she's eaten anything at 2 I may offer another bottle here but it's hit and miss.
5pm - a small snack before bath time - toast or a yogurt. Again, hardly eats anything.
6pm - bottle before bed. This one is usually ok and she'll have a good 5-6oz then sleep well.
11pm - I try to feed her again before I go to bed but she often fusses with this one. If I persist she will take it so she's clearly hungry but maybe doesn't appreciate being woken up for it? I don't know. If she takes this bottle she'll then sleep through until the 4-5am bottle.
Thank you if you read all of that! I know it looks like a lot but because she hardly takes anything at every feed I feel like I have to offer little and often. It's a pain in the ass as it feels like we are constantly stopping to feed and she's never that bothered about eating anyway. I'm worried she can sense my stress and it'll give her negative habits and feelings around food.
I do persist a bit with her bottles because she needs them! I know some would say you shouldn't do this but it's sometimes like she's messing about she will have it in the end. I don't force it in her mouth or anything but I do keep offering until she takes it. I don't know why she's like this. My other dc always ate brilliantly and took what was offered. She is much smaller and putting weight on at a much slower rate which I guess is why I'm so worried about it all. She has wet and dirty nappies which is a good sign but does this sound like enough over the course of a day for an 8 month old. We're talking under 30oz of milk and a tiny tiny amount of food here.