Posting as I'm becoming increasing worried about my nearly 8 month old DS.
We have been attempting to wean since six months. I've tried baby led and purées (mostly a mixture of finger foods and a small amount of purées or baby porridge) with limited success. I think we managed to get reasonably enthusiastic about baby porridge mixed with mango, apple purée and then a few finger foods (i.e. Toast, rice cakes and a ham sandwich - which he nicked from me!) so mainly very plain things. I've tried a whole range of things to tempt him tho and he's just not interested. Recently his aversion to trying anything tho has gotten a lot worse 😢 he is just refusing everything.
He is my second baby and I did baby led the first time around so I'm not necessarily worried about food intake (altho I'd love him to be more enthusiastic) what I'm really worried about is his lack of formula intake recently too. He has also stated refusing bottles during the day, apart from first thing in the morning and last thing at night and wakes frequently during the night for more milk. Basically he won't take it during the day.
I'm at my wits end! He obviously needs to take on board the calories during the day in order to sleep better. But it's a vicious circle. He won't sleep, so we give milk and then he won't eat/take milk during the day. He just seems to have it all confused! The milk refusal has been going on about 3 weeks now.
Am I worrying about nothing and will this just right itself? Or is there something I should do? Not give milk at night and let him cry? I'm not sure I really want to do that!
Sorry that it's become quite a long post and thank u if you've managed to read this far!