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12 month old not eating solids well..

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Chewbecca22 · 25/04/2024 11:41

As the title says.. I have a newly 12 month old who has never been a big eater. Our schedule is swinging between 1 and 2 naps depending on when he wakes but this is the 2 nap schedule:

Wake 6.30-7.30am and have breakfast - porridge, or toast, or pancakes and fruit - he barely eats this. Maybe a mouthful or two?

8.30/9 - 8oz formula

9.30/10am - nap for either an hour and a half or 2 hours

Lunch - quesadilla, or rice, or leftovers, cucumber sticks, cheese, fruit - again - he barely eats anything, maybe a mouthful or two.

After lunch is another 8oz bottle of formula.

His second nap is either an hour or an hour and a half depending on times and what he had earlier,

When he wakes from that nap he gets a snack - which he eats some of (breadstick or a wafer or some Pom bears)

Dinner is 5.30pm ish and he has some of that, sometimes..

8oz bottle before bed and he goes down around 7.30/8pm.

We don't do whole milk yet as he got really constipated and stopped sleeping so haven't eased back into it yet but - can someone just explain what to do?! He isn't eating enough food to be full, so he needs the formula I think, but he isn't having whole milk yet and he rejected it when we tried it in cups and only drank it mixed into formula.

I am just floundering with food as he is growing and thriving but I don't know what to do when he doesn't eat but then devours a bottle of formula! Help!

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CadyEastman · 28/04/2024 08:30

I think he's possibly having too much formula. The recommended amount between 10 and 12 months is 13.5 Floz.

I'd look at which bottle you want yo drop first Wink

Superscientist · 02/05/2024 20:06

My daughter didn't start eating until 13 months prior to that she had a spoon or two of breakfast and a handful of peas. If she accepted a sachet we would throw out half a packet after 2 days!

She was 20 months when she ate enough to wean off the formula. She is under a dietician so that was helpful. At 12 months she had a 5oz bottle in the morning, afternoon and 1-2 through the night and 8oz before bed so 24-28 Oz in total she was about 7.5kg at the time and only gained 200g between 7 and 13 months. She ate her first meal at 13 months and it was only then when she was combining food and formula that she started to gain weight again

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