Where am I going wrong?
My 9 month old little boy has totally gone off his milk. He doesn’t eat a lot of solids during the day as he isn’t keen on trying to feed himself, so I will basically spoon feed him his meals (porridge for breakfast, then lunch and dinner are mashed up/ lumpy foods such as spag Bol / cottage pie / fish pie etc) and he will have snacks in the day like yogurts, rice pudding, fruit, etc.
On a good day his milk intake is around 27oz over 3/4 bottles.
On a bad day (like today) so far he has only drank 6oz, and had 2oz mixed into his porridge so total of 8oz. He is currently napping, hasn’t had anything substantial to eat since his porridge this morning at 8:30. I’ve offered him lunch at 11:30 (toast and alphabet spaghetti) but he just sucked on the toast and then threw it on the floor and didn’t touch the spaghetti. I then offered him a bottle at 12:30 and he drank 1oz then refused anymore.
I’m going to offer him a bottle when he wakes from his nap, and then his dinner is cottage pie which he will probably eat half of. Then he will have his bedtime bottle (the only bottle he doesn’t protest and drinks 10oz).
I just feel really paranoid that he isn’t eating enough. Probably worrying over nothing... but as he has recently started STTN I fear if I don’t get the calories in him in the day he will start to wake in the night again for milk.
Is this sort of thing normal? (I.e refusing milk and not eating much solids?) and when should I worry? His nappies are wet but not very like they usually are. He is cutting some teeth so maybe this is just temporary?
I’m a FTM and just worry about everything.
Thank you and well done if you’ve made it to the end. Any advice / words of reassurance or wisdom would be great!
Thanks.