To ask what your baby's eat?

[thelmaandlewis]

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Having a tough time weaning my CMPA baby. There are a handful of things she really likes (banana, peanut butter, sweet potato) but she is really fussy with other things. She is coming up 10 months old and still isn't really eating very much solid food at all.

She'll have baby porridge or fruit for breakfast which is fine. Lunch is very hit or miss. I try to do different things here but quite often I'll spend time cooking meat, fish, veg etc and she just turns her nose up. Tea is usually something small like a yoghurt or toast with dairy free spread or peanut butter. She quite likes the ready made fruit pots but it really feels like all she's having is fruit or veg based meals. As she is an allergy baby it's really important that she tries meat, fish, eggs etc for calcium and also to try and prevent other allergies developing but I can't force feed her and she's just not interested.

She's still having 5 x 5-6oz bottles a day which I thought she'd have dropped a few of by now, she's putting on weight ok but I'm worried. Is this normal? We have tried a combination of BLW and spoon feeding.

Try reducing her milk intake. If she's having 25-30oz of milk a day she might not be hungry enough for solid food. Do you offer solids before milk?

With DS, until about a year old, I gave him exactly what I was eating. I think it helped him to know to eat it and that it was ok because I was eating it too. He eats almost everything now - just hates carrots for some unknown reason. We were really surprised by which things he loved - smoked salmon, chorizo and pomegranate were immediate favourites.

At this age, it’s all about getting them to enjoy food and eating so don’t stress about it.

I'm reluctant to reduce her bottles because she's eating so little her milk is where her main source of nutrition comes from. But you're probably right, she's not hungry enough for food.

Mine is 10 months exactly. Here’s what she ate today:

B: fruit toast with butter, sliced banana, raspberries, yoghurt

L: crackers and cheese, ham, olives, biscuit

D: pasta in tomato sauce, garlic bread, cherry tomato, plum, chocolate button

she also has approx 4 x 5oz bottles

i don’t know if that helps really!

That's a lot of food in comparison to what my dd would have. She has CMPA and we are dairy free weaning so some of that (cheese crackers etc) wouldn't be possible with her. She's still very much into purées too and won't tolerate anything with too much texture. She's definitely behind other babies her age with weaning but I'm trying not to stress and compare too much, I just want to know she's getting enough not to become poorly or anything. She's putting weight on so I guess that's a good sign.

At 10 months scrambled egg was a definite regular, if that's okay on her diet, or baked beans on toast. Meatballs chopped into pieces, sausages, sandwich meats, fishcake. Bread was very hit and miss, so whatever I would put in a sandwich would be better on a plate. Garlic bread was always a winner though 😁
Spaghetti hoops are a good instant easy dinner. She would devour pasta just with a little oil on. Weetabix if I didn't feel she had eaten much actual food.

But she was also a milk hound, and was having 4 x 8-9oz bottles a day, and food was definitely not her primary intake at that time. She was a large and tall baby, 10lb at birth and coming out the other side of 12-18 clothes at 10 months (for length more than weight), and the amount she had going in (a lot less than others her age) did not justify how much she grew in a short space!

Can you vary it with texture? So one meal smooth the next not? And if it's not working for you to have 3 meals, knock it back to 2 for a month and see if she does better eating mid afternoon, when shes a bit hungrier. There's no rule book for 3 meals, work around her naps.

I wouldn’t worry, food before 1 is just for fun, definitely don’t reduce the milk, that happens naturally when they start eating more.

I get that allergies make things tricky but I’d just offer whatever you’re having that’s suitable/ adjust what you eat a bit so you’re having the same.

I've got CMPA. Blueberry pancakes go down well for breakfast here. I make them with Almond Milk instead of Cow's but other alternative milks should work.

Do you have the sane things for lunch? If cooking fir get is a chore, you could both have the sand or you could give her a sandwich or leftovers from the night before, like spaghetti Bol.