Breakfast, ds not interested, any ideas??

[alibo]

Have been weaning ds for 3.5 weeks now, he is 7 months old in a week, but nearly 4 weeks prem. Have been roughly following gf book, but he is showing no signs of wanting breakfast. Was hoping he woud be by now so I can start on meat next week and drop 11 am milk feed. His meals so far are: 7am ish 6-7oz bottle, 11am 6-7oz bottle plus sweet pot+other veg, 3pm ish 5oz bottle, 6, 6.30pm ish 6-7oz bottle plus 5-6 teaspoons baby rice+fruit. When he wakes he often doesn't seem overly bothered over his bottle and usually stops at 5oz, then has last bit after 10 min break. Tried breakfast this morning, teaspoon of porridge with formula, but wouldn't even open his mouth to try it; added some fruit but still clamped shut!! gfbook says if baby is over 16lb weight and showing no signs of wanting breakfast cut back his milk a bit, but often will only have 5-6oz anyway. BTW he weighed 16.5, and that was nearly 3 weeks ago. Birth to Five book also says to only drop a milk feed when baby on 3 meals a day, where do I go from here if he continues to refuse breakfast?

I would check with HV but sure there will be lots of advice. Maybe when he's had his early milk, instead of giving the last bit of the bottle after 10 minute break, try a bit of solids, or try a little later at 8am? Tried numerous different kinds of porridge with my ds as I really wanted him to have it, and what he likes is creamed porridge from a jar, with fruit added (Hipp Organic or Boots, probably loads of others). Undoubtedly because it is full of sugar! Ds also likes scrambled egg, would that be worth a try?

I wouldn't worry too much, it sounds as if he is progressing really well and there's no desperate hurry for him to be on 3 meals i would have thought. enjoy not having to cook that early

I'd leave it and stop worrying. If he's healthy, sleeps through, thriving and eating to appetite then you don't have a problem IMO. Not so long ago it was normal to first introduce solids at 8 or 9 months and only give milk before then. If your ds doesn't want breakfast I'd just leave him be, tbh. And milk is much easier than messy horrid cereal

Agree with aloha. Much as I like GF, I don't entirely agree with her on her weaning timetable. IME, my ds took 7-8 weeks to get to three meals a day, and even then would only eat about 2-3 'icecubes' or half a 1st stage baby jar, whereas his sister was on three meals a day within four weeks, and took at 5-6 'icecubes' plus at least one whole jar at almost every meal! Neither of them according to GF's timetable . And they both put on weight at approximately the same rate.

So, don't worry, don't hurry. He will eat breakfast when he's ready.

BTW, when ds was ready to eat breakfast, I found he ate better if he had his milk after his cereal, whereas it made no difference to dd.