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Weaning and Milk

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Rowlie · 30/04/2022 19:45

Struggling with a weaning/milk feed routine with 7m old and worried what I’m currently doing is incorrect.

DS has so far been slow to weaning, not that interested, lots of refusal. I have been offering both finger foods and purees. No teeth yet so struggles with some finger foods I think.

This is what I’m currently doing:

Breakfast - porridge or weetabix with some fruit puree and banana.
Tea - some sort of homemade veg puree or a pouch. With some finger foods (pepper, cucumber, carrot, broccoli, avocado). Natural yog for after with some fruit.
Will eat those organic veg melt crisps as a snack.

Breakfast is most successful meal. Tea hit and miss. Occasionally I’ll offer something for lunch like toast fingers/avocado, cauliflower cheese.

He is still having 4/5 210ml (7oz) formula bottles as well (one of these is usually in night). Although I make sure big enough gap between food/milk so that he is hungry. Should I not be giving him as much milk? But if he doesn't eat a lot surely he needs it?

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Flopisfatteningbingforchristmas · 30/04/2022 21:58

Offer milk about an hour before food. Ideally he shouldn’t be hungry because he will be more fussy and frustrated with the food. Still keep offering as much milk as he wants.

MGee123 · 01/05/2022 07:49

We had the same problem with our daughter around the same age. Eventually I concluded she just wasn't hungry and cut her bottles down to 6oz after speaking with the HV. I also started offering her food before giving her a bottle. It's got much better since then. She's down to just 4 x 5oz bottles now and often doesn't drink all of them. The feeding an hour or even 2 hours before meals just didn't work for her - she wasn't hungry for food if she'd had a bottle.

Current routine is roughly:
6.45 breakfast
7.30 bottle (5oz)
9.00 nap
10.45 small mid morning snack
12.30 lunch
13.30 bottle
13.45 nap
16.00 tea
16.30 bottle
18.45 bottle before bed

Bornsloppy · 01/05/2022 07:58

Neither of mine dropped a bottle till 9mo, one was a great eater from as soon as we started and the other one took a few months to get a hang of it.

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