Right, I now have an *11* *month* old who only has milk...

[cazee]

I have posted before about my DD who is not really eating solids,and received lovely reassurance from mnetters, but she will be 1 on 28th December, and I am beginning to worry again.
I offer her foods, I leave them on her high chair tray for her to feed herself, I spoon them in, I have even thrown bread on the floor to see if she will eat it (as she loves to eat any grit she finds on the carpet , bur she only eats a few mouthfulls in a day. I am starting to worry that she may begin to lack some nutrients.
I am still fully breastfeeding, which is really all she is having. She is small for her age, but well covered, happy and healthy.
Do I need to worry?

Thanks everyone, great to hear that my DD is not the only one!
I don't think I will worry for a couple of months or so. I guess breast milk is providing all she needs.
Laughed at the "6 peas", my dd will sit and eat peas too, one of the few things she can be bothered to eat!

once again Aitch - THANK YOU!!! We're trying BLW with DD and she'll try some food but doesn't wolf down much (except bananas!), is still BF but I was getting a bit worried. Am trying not to obsess about growth charts...

you're most welcome

My DD wouldn't eat much while I was BFing either.
She seemed to enjoy eating, but the quantity of food consumed was never very great.
I worried about quitting BFing in case she starved as a result.
However, the opposite was true. I quit BFing last month and since then her weight has gone up significantly.
She now wolfs down food like there's no tomorrow. To be honest, I have no idea where she puts it all.
You may well find that she's getting all she needs from the BF now and once that stops she'll turn elsewhere.

Both my DD's were the same, fully b/f until their first birthdays ...one had cake on the day and the other a chop! Prior to that nothing would tempt them. Discussed this with GP and baby health nurse and neither were concerned at all as both babies looked well. They continued to b/f for another year but from 12m onwards ate what ever we ate.

can i join the club?

my 11 month old will probably have a total of about 3-4 teaspoons of food a day and is still bfeeding on demand. I tried cutting back on breastmilk, she was cranky and even less willing to eat. I have tried (and am doing) BLW, except that if I were really to take her lead she'd eat nothing. I tried purees, home made and ready made, all ended up in the bin. Right now I just offer her what we are having at mealtimes, if she eats she eats and if she doesnt she doesnt. She has this knack of holding her hand out eagerly for feed and opening her mouth, chewing everything like an expert and then spitting it all out. she is on the 50th centiles for height and weight so i'm not too worried, but hoping for change. am so reassured to see I'm not the only one whose baby is not on 3 meals plus snakcs and milk in between!

I forgot to mention that there is one thing she would eat in adult quantities: chocolate.

I've only skimmed the thread, but you asked what might be lacking in your DD's diet. Vitamin D. It's winter - she won't be getting it from sunlight in the uk and neither will you, and it really doesn't transfer well in breastmilk. Vitamin D deficiency is a risk in infants who are exclusively breastfed for >6 months, ie who aren't getting the vit D from supplements (Abidec) or diet. Being vit D deficient is not good for bone health. Seriously, I'd give vitamin drops.

even in the winter, as long as you are fair skinned and do not cover up entirely, you will not need vit d supplements. sorry greenbos. you can search kellymom to confirm what i am saying.

my (bf) dd did not take solids till near the end of 13 months. and when she did, the first thing she chose was paprika flavoured german smoked salami.

we now know that she has cow's milk and egg allergy and wonder if it was just her gut telling her she wasn't ready for (many) solids.

we started weaning ds at around 7 months, and although we have wonderful feeding days we do still have days where he likes to exist almost entirely on milk.

he's 17 months now.

another very very experienced mnetter once gave me the advice of "food is fun until they're one". she will eat when she's ready, and tbh you probably are getting all the right nutrients into her with bfing.

don't be put off by your HV

Hi again, kiskidee, the vitamin D thing is an issue. see www.sacn.gov.uk/reports/# for a recent scientific report and some refs. I'll try and find some others this evening, I've got lots somewhere...

Vit D in breast milk is not correlated with maternal vit D status very well (hence mum talking supps is not very helpful). We do live in a far enough northern latitude in the UK that the wavelength of solar radiation will not lead to vit D synthesis between (IIRC) October and March. Vit D deficiency is a growing public health problem. I totally agree that it is babies with darker skin who are most at risk generally, as it is easier to synthesise vit D in light skin, but you just can't do it at all in the UK in the winter! I promise, I've looked at the evidence. I'm an extended bf'er working in public health. It really is only the situation the OP refers to, of long term exclusive bfing where it seems advisable to supplement.

DS1 didn't really take solids at all until 13 months when he launched into a kebab on holiday in Greece! From then on, he gradually increased his intake, but certainly nothing I'd call a meal until well over the 2 years mark. It was fustrating and worrying at the time, but completely understandable as he had dreadful wind all the time. Now 5.5 years he is strong as an ox and one of the healthiest eaters of all of his peers - no sweets, raw vegetables, fruit and roast meat or white fish preferred.
He has always had boundless energy so I've never been that concerned, nor sought the advice of medics. Please, don't let your DD's milky preference cloud your days with her. Enjoy, enjoy she'll be eating platefuls soon enough. Now I'm with DS2, nearly 7 months, the spitting image (and wind problems) of his elder brother. He has some interest in food, takes it sometimes, sometimes not but so glad I've the confidence to enjoy his first tastes rather than fret over them. Good luck! None of this is easy is it?!