Should I reduce solids intake?

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Didn't know whether to post this in weaning or here. Anyway...

Ds is 28 wks and after extolling the virtues of BLW to everyone I basically chickened out so he is mainly on purées.

So he's on 3 meals and our day today, which is fairly typical (apart from the fact he slept more than usual)went like this:

6:30 - Woke up
8:30 - 30 min nap
9:30 - breakfast- cereal with approx 3oz breastmilk + half a leftover fruit pot
10:45 - fell asleep in buggy on walk for 1 hour
12.15 - lunch out- tommee tippee cylindrical pot of homemade purée with about 1oz breastmilk mixed in- ate about half, 2 of mummy's chips and a 55g 'Plum' fromage frais
1.30 - fell asleep in buggy in way home-about 45 mins
4.30 - another 30 min nap
5.15 - tea- 2/3 avocado mixed with 50ml breastmilk
7pm - bedtime

So I haven't included any milk feeds because basically he has hardly had anything all day long. He had 3oz expressed milk in a bottle before his lunch and maybe a further 2oz expressed milk from his sippy cup throughout the whole day

He was ebf to just before 6 months when we started introducing solids but we had many issues along the way. I have offered him bf's all day long but he gets really quite cross about it and just will not feed. To be honest I'm not surprised by this daytime nursing strike and tbh I wouldn't really mind if he just took some fluids in a bottle or sippy cup or whatever, but even though I kept offering he just wasn't interested.

We have definitely been progressing towards this for quite a while now, with him having less and less daytime feeds but this is the first day he basically hasn't had anything all day.

Interestingly he still feeds at least twice at night and I just about managed to coax him into having a good bedtime feed once he was sleepy (I have tried this tactic with naps but it hadn't worked)

Anyway, sorry for the epic post...basically what it comes down to is i'm just worried about his fluid intake and wondering, is he having too much food too soon?

Well is he having plenty in the night time? You need to get those into his day time feeds...if you can! But he's still so small that night feeding is sort of fine too.

It seems like more than mine both ate at that age tbh..they didn't really have a lunch and a pudding....though it's not an awful lot either.

I would try to get the fruit pots gone...same with the fromage frais...not needed....offering dessert in the shape of fruit like a little banana or steamed pear or apple now and thenwould be better...but I think maye cut the desserts out alltogether for now.

He might have more room for his milk then.

I wondered this the other day. My 7 month old still feeds almost 2 hourly... but I was wondering if she did cut down on breastfeeds whether I was supposed to start formula to make sure she gets enough "something"!? I know we're supposed to wait until 12 months to start cows milk. In reality I suspect babe with bf non stop all through... but if she didn't?

I think as long as you are offering both water and breast milk though out the day it's fine.

Have a sippy cup/beaker ect with water at meal times. Then offer breast milk when you can or think he might be interested.

It's worth remembering that you need to look at food intake over a week not a day. So you'd be including night time feeds in that.

Beatrice you really don't need to offer formula if a baby is cutting down on breastfeeding themselves. Also They can have cows milk after six months but it shouldn't be the main drink. So you wouldn't say stop breastfeeding and only offer cows milk. But you could continue to breastfeeding and offer some cows milk.