My DS is really into solid food. He gets waggly and excited when I put him in his high chair, and grins when I go into the kitchen. He would happily stuff his face all day, I think. He has a mixture of finger food and coarse puree. I've been trying to make sure I keep up the breast feeding, but it's getting quite difficult. I've tried feeding midway between meals but he wasn't hungry, so I tried feeding just before meals, but that's no better. Sometimes he won't latch on at all, other times he'll give a couple of sucks then pull away, or worse still, he'll get bored and start biting me. I know you can start to drop feeds when they get established on solids, but I'm also aware he's supposed to be getting most of his nutrition from breast milk until he's one. The little bits he's taking here and there don't seem enough to me.
He'll happily drink formula milk from a bottle (he's always had one bottle of FF per day for historical reasons). He's also quite good at drinking water from his doidy cup - he thinks that's a tremendous game. So, what do I do?
a) try to cut back on the amount he eats so he is hungrier for milk (that seems like a bit of a shame really, when he's so happy on solids)
b) give up on BF and give him formula to drink.
c) Just make sure he has a lot of dairy in his diet and stop worrying so much?
d) something else? (expressing and me don't get on, btw)
TIA!