Baby hardly eaten today

[Caspianberg]

My 7 month old has been such as disaster eating.

Today, I have been trying to breastfeed him every 2 hrs and offer food, and he’s barely taken anything.

He breastfed properly at 3am, 5am. A 7am 1 min breastfeed.

9am - he ate a decent amount of baby porridge with formula, fruit purée, and 1/4 whole banana. End of my bit of toast.

Offered milk at 11 and 1 refused.

2pm- ate two baby rice crackers and a few tiny spoons fruit purée with buttermilk. Refused anything else

3pm, milk refused. 5pm 2 min breastfeed

And that’s it..

Will he just eat when he’s hungry?

Seems like he has eaten little and often....? I thought your post was going to say nothing at all!

Absolutely fine at his age

That’s fine for 7 months! Milk is still the main meal, food is just experimenting at this stage.

Remember that your baby’s stomach is the same size as their closed fist.
That’s seems plenty.

But he hasn’t eaten little and often.

He literally had a good milk feed at 3 and 5am, good solid feed at 9am. Then virtually no milk or liquid or solids between 9am and now bar a semi forced minute breastfeed and a spoon of purée rejected

Saying that, it’s 6.50pm here now, he refused milk offered before meal, but had just eaten a bowl or lentils and veggies, and some yogurt. So hopefully he has milk at bedtime

It just seems very little milk feeds as I thought milk should be his main calories at this age? He does still feed overnight

That sounds like a HUGE breakfast for a 7mo!

@Lisa78Lemon - does it? The porridge and fruit together was about 1/2 of those small gu pudding pots worth ( I guess about 2 standard ice cubes size).
And then 1/4 banana he ate himself so half of that went of the floor and his hair.

He'll be fine. Actually sounds like a lot of food. Plus he's only wee and still learning.

Babies do this, some days they lick a carrot all day, other days you'll wonder where they're putting it all

Look at his intake over 5-7 days, not just in isolation.

And if he's still bright, alert happy etc. Then nothing to worry about.

@caspianberg Ah, you had said 'a decent amount' and I envisioned a baby bowl full of each!
Still though, with the toast and banana, my 7mo would never have eaten that much.
He's 12mo and had 5 teaspoons of weetabix and refused any fruit for breakfast today! Some days he's a piggy, others he's super picky. As PP said, look at this intake over a week not a day.

Offering breast feeding every 2 hours on top of solids is quite a lot, he will probably have fewer but longer feeds if you offer them to him less often

Babies have hungry days and not so hungry days, it’s absolutely fine. Sounds a huge breakfast and at his age, he doesn’t need to eat so much overnight so sounds like he’s taking on calories overnight which will affect his daytime intake too.

Ok thanks, I will see how he goes the next few days. He’s usually been a ‘ milk every 2hrs’ kind of baby so it seems so little milk all of a sudden daytime.

I agree, that seems like a huge breakfast for a 7 month old.

I'd also cut down to offering solids just twice a day. The current NHS advice is to move to offering solids 3 times a day between 8 and 9 months.

Offering solids twice a day should make your day a bit easier and should encourage him to be a bit more interested in his milk