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Bottles, weaning and sippy cups, help!

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WhenTwoBecomeThree · 15/07/2020 12:14

I'm really struggling at the moment with my 7.5 month old DD. We had a really good routine going and each time another meal has been introduced I feel like the whole day has gone tits up.

She's now on 3 meals per day and our routine usually goes...
6.30 wake up
7.30 bottle
8.15 - 9.30 nap
9.45 breakfast
11am bottle
11.30 -1 nap
2 bottle
2.30 dinner
3-4pm nap
5.15 tea
6 bath time
6.20 bottle
6.30 bed

Struggle to get more than 4oz down her on her 2nd and 3rd bottles but she's hardly eating any food! We started off with purees and then moved on to jars with lumpier food for tea and she'll have porridge or toast for breakfast. I've given her solids every now and again if i'm cooking something that she can have and she's been really good with them. Over the last couple of weeks she just won't bother with solids at all and will happily just sit there and let me feed her, she won't even attempt to pick anything up!

Sippy cups, she won't even entertain. I've tried the munchkin 360 and the nuby sip and grip cup and she won't have either.

Feel like we're just going backwards, I'm planning on dropping the jarred food completely and concentrate on BLW to help her gain some independance but I'm completely at a loss.

She's a good weight, currebtly 18lbs so it's not like she's losing weight due to lack of formula or food.

Sorry for the really long post i'm just completely stuck!

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Lockdownseperation · 15/07/2020 13:10

So she is not having much milk or food. Is she teething?

Remember unless doing blw you are recommended to move towards 3 meals a day from 9 months and until 12 months milk should be offered 30 to 60 mins before meals.

mindutopia · 15/07/2020 13:17

I would just carry on offering food (yes, I'd switch to finger foods now) and milk as she'll take it. I wouldn't stress about the sippy cups. Neither of mine had any interest until closer to 9-12 months. I would offer it to play with in the bath as a start. But wouldn't bother too much at mealtimes at the moment.

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WhenTwoBecomeThree · 15/07/2020 13:32

Thanks both, would you maybe give her the first bottle a bit earlier and do breakfast before she goes down for her first nap?

I'll keep offering food and see how she goes.

She's already got 2 bottom teeth, I can't really see any others coming through but that was my first thought.

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Yorkiee · 15/07/2020 20:07

I had to cut out morning bottle because she started refusing it. Straight into breakfast when she wakes up at 6:30.

Then we have 2.5 hours gap inbetween bottles and meals.

She takes 5 oz 4 times a day and has 2 oz of solids each time. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

She was only able to eat more when it was spaced out.

She hates formula. Struggled since birth so I just add it to her breakfast.

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