Am I doing this all wrong & failing my baby?

[Lozzylou1]

My little girl is nearly 7 months on Sunday. She is still being EBF but that’s because she has refused to take a bottle since day 1.

I co- sleep with her because it’s the only way I get some sleep & right now with not being able to give the baby to anyone else to look after as she won’t take milk I really need the sleep.

Weve started weaning & she’s not interested. She also isn’t making any attempt to roll or crawl but can sit up brilliantly & has done since 5.5 months.

should I be worried? What do I do

Weaning is not a straight road. The one of my 3 that is by far the best eater now had absolutely no interest in food until nearly 8 months. The other two loved mushing it around but I don't think they actually ate much at the age. What they did want straight through them without change, so I don't think there's much actual nutritional need for it that young.

My eldest didn't roll at that age. No interest in it whatsoever. She always hated tummy time. LOVED sitting and being supported to stand though. Does yours like being on her feet? My eldest didn't crawl as it happened, but she was walking well by a year. My boys rolled MUCH earlier, and we're crawling at 9 months. As a result, couldn't be bothered to walk till they were nearly 15 months.

None of mine have followed the textbook order/timings. They're all totally normal children, eldest is doing well at school etc. When they are tiny they follow their own timeline and it's pretty internally motivated. Thats frustrating if you're worried, but there's not much you can d about it.

My little boy is 8 months and hasn’t crawled yet and will only roll once from front to back as he hates tummy time. Like mentioned by pp, he loves to stand and walk about the room and everyone has said he’ll skip crawling and go straight to walking.
With weaning just try to offer food in different ways. Ours wasn’t interested until he grabbed some food off our plates and then wanted to try it, rather than us trying to get food into his mouth.
I EBF too and he won’t take a bottle. When I’ve had to go somewhere without him I’ve pumped and left the milk with whoever is caring for him and they then feed it to him in his sippy cup. He usually drinks water with the lid on but prefers to have it open to drink milk. So maybe try leaving the house and leaving milk and someone else can try feeding baby. Sometimes you just have to physically not be there.

My DS didn’t really take to weaning until about 8 months , he also didn’t crawl until 12 months!!
Hes now 15 months and LOVES his food and walks about everywhere .

My 7 month old DS is similar, EBF and cosleeping to survive. He has no interest in food at all, in fact gets quite upset when I present solids to him, he’s licked a bit of pasta a few times then cry’s for milk. He can roll and is trying to crawl but can’t sit up on his own yet.
Im not worried at all, he’s my second so I’m a lot more relaxed this time around. Ask yourself, do you know any children that literally don’t eat? Of course not, they all get there eventually in their own time.

You've had some good advice on weaning already. I'd just like like to add that neither of mine would take a bottle either but I did start to leave them.

If you have a DP/DH I'd get them used to taking LO out for a couple of hours at the weekend, after a feed. They can take some food for LO and a cup of milk in case LO get a hungry. Sending them to the library and the park or swimming. There might even be a Dad's & Baby group on at the weekends.