7months

[Patriciamcpat]

Has anyone else’s 7 month old point blank refuse milk and only eat food ?
HV said it’s fine just to include dairy and make sure they are consuming iron and just to offer the milk 4 times and if they don’t want it that’s fine

Mine went through this phase, I just carried on offering. At some point he started taking it again. I figured I had to trust he took what he needed at the time.

Did the HV mention giving a daily vitamin too and making sure you offer good fats like oily fish twice a week? LO would probably need some calcium rich foods too

@CadyEastman she said there’s no need for any vitamins that there isn’t even that much in formula anyway just to make sure to have a balanced diet and use cows milk in any meals possible and to include fish , chicken , meat ect .

That advice doesn't fit with what the NHS advise which is daily vitamins from 6 months to 5 years unless they are having a minimum of 500 ml of formula.

I wonder why your HV is giving out advice like that?

@CadyEastman she said there’s no reason to when she’s having a balanced diet 😊

Wonder why she's not giving out the NHS advice?

And the HV is really wrong if she thinks your LO will get enough Vitamin D through their diet, which they need for bone growth.

I think the guidelines for supplementing with Vitamin D were introduced after the link was made with low Vitamin D and MS.

@CadyEastman she isn’t my regular HV she’s off sick and won’t be back for another week so I will definitely speak to her about it then😊

unfortunately my gp was absolutely hopeless and straight up said she hasn’t a clue on infant feeding so I am quite lost really

thank you for your concern though appreciate it 😊

Unfortunately Doctors receive very little training on, I think a day in 5 years, I'm not sure infant nutrition is even covered. At least the GP was honest with you I suppose.

Is LO refusing all formula or is it just the bottle? Have you tried a cup?

I would try to give lots of foods like milky weetabix, milky ready brek, baby rice (plain 100% rice, not the sugary ones), all made with formula.

Even if she’s not drinking milk, at least those foods would have quite a lot of milk in.

Also I would add vitamin drops to her food. At 7 months, a “balanced diet” should probably be about 90% milk. I don’t think they can get everything they need just from food at that age.

@CadyEastman they are refusing formula from anything, she drink want well from her straw cup but if you put formula in it she’ll spit it out straight away :(

@DuploTrain they won’t eat food made up on there formula I think they can taste it in there 😩

Which formula is she on @Patriciamcpat ?

@CadyEastman cow and gate

Has she always been on that one and how was she with formula before she started solids?

@CadyEastman shes always been on it yeah , her intake has been poor since 2 months so was advised to wean early but I did wait till 5 months

Is there a chance that she could have CMPA if her milk intake has always been poor? Have a read of the symptoms here

@CadyEastman she has always had reflux and developed a bottle aversion from this I think

If LO has symptoms in the link I posted, and if they have reflux it's sounds as though they probably do, then they are probably associating the formula with pain.

I'd ring Allergy UK tomorrow and talk to their helpline and ask the GP for a formula suitable for CMPA. You might need to add alcohol free vanilla essence or Nesquik to the formula to fry them to drink it.

Rowena Bennett's book on bottle aversion might help too