7 months refusing daytime milk

[lupinjess]

My dd2 is 7 months old. Bf til 6 months and then started weaning. She's taken to the solids really well but for the last week has been increasingly reluctant to bf during the day. She still has one or sometimes 2 feeds during the night but I am hoping that she will drop these eventually. Can she survive with just bedtime and night feeds? Tried reducing solids but didn't help. Im just worried that she won't get enough iron without her milk.

It is quite likely to be a phase. Quite a few babes on my postnatal thread did it when they first got stuck into solids.
Make sure you offer a bf in the morning before solids.

my boy never did it btw, oh no, boob monster

Thanks. Think she may also be teething so maybe that is part of the problem. She won't even take a feed first thing in the morning and if I make her breakfast with ebm she won't eat it!

I could have written exactly this post a few weeks ago. My dd3 is 7 months 3 weeks, and has just come out of this phase. She is now back to having a bf first thing, mid morning, mid afternoon and bedtime (plus a couple between then and morning). I kept offering her a bf every couple of hours(despite the bites that I often got in response!) and for some reason, she has decided this week that she likes booby milk again.

My HV told me not to worry too much, but to make sure she was getting milk in other ways during the day eg yoghurt, on cereal etc. If she's having 2 or 3 good feeds she should be OK.

My next project is dropping the night feeds which are getting boring now...

thanks bluebread. She does have about 3 decent feeds. Just wish two of them weren't in the small hours! Off to try the little minx again now.

Didn't see your comment about her possibly teething. I think that definitely had something to do with my dd's reluctance to feed. She has got five teeth, three of which have come through in the last month. One thing that always worked (but I don't like doing it very often) was putting a bit of bonjela on her gums just before trying to feed. Worth a try.