DS started nursey this week and all ok but not happy with diet

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ds aged 6 month started nursey this week.The staff are lovely and I am otherwise v happy but I am a bit concerned about food and wonder what others think.

They have a cook on the premises and she prepares all food. On the days she makes a home made dish for lunch eg chicken casserole then this is pureed for the under 12 months. If its not home made eg fish fingers, waffles and beans the babies get pureed veg/fruit.The tea is light eg sandwitches so babies again get fruit veg puree.

My ds was almost fully weaned having just introduced lunch 2 weeks ago and he was having 2 cubes of pureed meat/fish and veg and still a full milk feed.Now he is dropping his milk feeds as nursery give approx double the amount of food I was offering and hes taking it.Trouble is that 3 days out of 4 this week he has only had pureed fruit and veg all day and no protein.

ds is small for 6 months (16lb) and is having 21 oz milk a day which i think is fine but he should be getting protein every day as hes unlikley to gain any weight on just veg/fruit.

I mentioned it to keyworker today and she said she would raise it.

What do you think?Would you be concerned?

anyone?

our nursery provide a menu and we just cross off things we don't want and tell them how we'd like the food served (ie. pureed/mashed/cut up etc). Your nursery should be happy to feed your ds whatever you tell them too, just be explicit for them.

I wouldn't worry too much at 6 mo as long as he's getting enough milk... its early days for solid food still. If you don't want them to give him too much solid food tell them how much, or get them to give him some milk first?

Agree with Scoobie. At 6 months his main diet should be milk anyway and will not gain weight any better with extra protien in his solids (meat etc) what will help his weight gain is his milk.
If you are concerned that he is drinking less milk I would ask them to give him less of the solids or like Scoobie said give some milk first.

Hes getting about 20oz a day

From what i remember (ds 20 mo) I started him off on just fruit and veg purees and then over the course of a few months he was having protein sources as well, in our case chicken fish etc as I am terrible at preparing red meat lol!

The nursery tok their lead from me with regardswhen to introduce what. Some days he would have two 'meals' ie blended full meals if they were both home made or other days, if they were having things like fish fingers etc they would have something for him like cauliflower cheese which they had obviously prepared (frozen?) beforehand.

From what i remember (ds 20 mo) I started him off on just fruit and veg purees and then over the course of a few months he was having protein sources as well, in our case chicken fish etc as I am terrible at preparing red meat lol!

The nursery tok their lead from me with regardswhen to introduce what. Some days he would have two 'meals' ie blended full meals if they were both home made or other days, if they were having things like fish fingers etc they would have something for him like cauliflower cheese which they had obviously prepared (frozen?) beforehand.

Milk is the most important thing, no question.

Remember that the rest of the 6mos may just be having their first tastes of solids - fruit/ veg + milk is a reasonable diet to offer babies his age.

However nursery should accede to your wishes re his diet. How is he re finger food? Could he have the 'unsuitable' toddler fishfingers?

Remember that non-meat purees with pulses actually contain a lot of protein - do they have lentils etc?

Can your DS manage with finger food yet?

Fishfingers culd be fine, esp with the coating removed - then just fingers of fish.

And sandwiches - could he manage a bit of them too, or the cheese/,eat/etc from inside it?