I have a 9 month old. He has always been a really good eater. He was born 3 weeks early on the 50th percentile and over time his weight has gone up to the 80th percentile whereas his height has remained on the 35th. He has rolls of fat everywhere and a triple chin.
He was solely breastfed until 5.5 months when I introduced solids and he took to them really quickly and was soon on 3 meals a day plus breastfeeds. Since 7 months he has had 6 teeth and manages to eat pretty much as we do.
The problem is he does not seem to regulate his food intake. Unless I stop feeding him he will just eat more and more. I read that as long as you feed baby heathy food it is not possible to overfeed but I am really not sure in my LOs case.
Should I start restricting his food or milk? I really have no idea how much breastmilk he is getting as I am feeding on demand. He wakes once at night 3am for a feed. I did try night weaning but he was impossible to resetttle.
In the last couple of weeks he has started pulling up to walk, cruising and crawling. Do you think this will help with his weight?
Meals wise it is quite tricky atm as we are having an extension built so don't currently have a kitchen so food has to require limited preparation. For breakfast he will often have peanut butter on toast and banana. For lunch he will share my ploughmans which often means cheese, pitta bread and houmous, olives and some sort of fish e.g anchovies or salmon. For dinner he often has an ellas kitchen pouch (I try to avoid the ones with fruits though). I would rather cook somthing but we don't have the facilities at the moment. We hace been having lots of takeaways due to the lack of a kitchen and he will sometimes have some chicken from my curry or some onion bhaji. He doesn't tend to have pudding other than sometimes greek yoghurt. Does this sound ok? Everyone keeps commenting on how fat he is and it has been making me very worried.