5 month old refusing milk

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My daughter is 23 weeks so roughy 5 and half months and the last 3 weeks she’s gone off milk completely. I’m fighting to get more than 22oz down her with today being the worst with only 18oz. She happy in herself, having a minimum of 5-7 wet nappy’s a day and she’s also having purées too, I’m so worried she’s going to dehydrate but she’s just not wanting the milk. I even tried water today and she took some so I swapped the bottles to try see if she’d take some milk but as soon as she tasted it was the milk she spat the bottle back at me. Just a ftm worried her daughter isn’t getting enough. For reference she was last weighed about 2 weeks ago and was 7.8kg so her weight has so far still been going up

Hi! I had this with my DD when she was roughly the same age. I ended up taking her to drs and she was diagnosed with a throat infection even though she was well in herself. 5 days of antibiotics and by day 3 she was drinking her usual amount. Might be worth getting her checked x

It's many years since I had my babies but noticed nobody responded 😢
I can't comment on the oz as mine were all breast fed so you have no idea how much they drank (which has the benefit of stopping you worry😂) but if she's having 5-7 wet nappies a day she's not dehydrated so stop worrying. Maybe she just prefers the food so as she increases that she can drink water if she prefers in the daytime. All three of mine loved their food and quickly went off milk in the day. Remember that there is a lot of liquid in their first foods, fruit purees or vegetables contain a lot of water.

My first self weaned at 10 mths and after that didn't drink milk at all apart from in his cereal, he did eat cheese and yoghurt, just didn't like milk to drink so had water or watered down apple juice. Used to worry that he wasnt getting enough calcium but he's a man now and perfect teeth so not done him any harm. Worrying about them is part of the job description I'm afraid💐

I definitely think I'll go get her checked but the strange thing is she will eat her purees and porridges absolutely fine and take water fine it's just the milk she seems to fight off

When did you start giving purees? My DS totally went off his milk when I started weaning, he knew there was something better out there 🤣 I had to pull back the weaning to focus on getting milk in him x

It’s likely the weaning. I’d say get creative. Use her milk in her porridge and cereal and anywhere else you can use it, like scrambled egg etc.
She will naturally start to tail off the milk over the next six months but as you are still early I’d try foods you can still sneak it into and work up from there with more solids. Definitely keep up with offering water though as it will help with constipation etc. And also get her used to drinking water.

I started with baby rice maybe 2 weeks ago as she started not wanting the milk then so I tried baby rice as a way to get it down her a bit more

Around this age babies get very distracted. I had to feed mine in a dark boring room and couldn't, go out as much. He also fed much better at night. Their vision and hearing suddenly get much better so they want to see and play with everything.

Ditch the baby rice, they recommended porridge over rice now.

I definitely try the dark quiet room, when it comes to feeding at night, she’s slept through the night since she was 4-5weeks so she sleeps about 8-12hours a night so night feeds won’t work I don’t think.

I’ve heard this about the baby rice, I’ve being doing porridge the last couple days instead