Hello,
Please bear with my English?..
My DD is 6 1/2 month old now. She will be seven month within week and half. I breastfed her exclusively till 6 month and introduced baby rice on her 6 month mark. Since then I have introduced pear, apple, sweat potato, courgette and carrot. It was all pureed mix with breast milk and spoon fed. I have introduced new taste every couple of days. The first week of weaning went very well. But now weaning became such a stressful time.
She has a great interest on foods since 5 month and she's healthy chubby full term baby - now weighting 8kg (18lb). She bang our bowls and dip her fingers into my yoghurt? staring on how we eat dinner.
The thing is that now she's screaming on her high chair doesn't want to open mouth, kicking...etc. If I hand over the bottle with expressed milk she finishes it really quickly. She is definitely hungry... She grabs her spoon and chew on them very well. But just don?t want her purees...
The worrying thing is she started to vomit almost every evening. This fussiness and vomiting started since I introduced her courgette so I tried to give her something else today but got same reaction. She's not vomiting right after the feed, just in the evening before the night sleep. She had a reflux since 6 weeks but outgrown of it after few months already. But now she's vomiting again so I feel really hard about it. She wasn't vomiting the first week of the weaning and she had pear, sweat potato and carrot that time.
I am thinking should I just give her breast milk only and delay the whole weaning thing? Maybe she will be interested on solid soon later?. But when I see her being so interested on our foods and signs of how hungrier she is I am not sure whether delaying will be a good idea. She have about 8-9 oz milk in the morning and get hungry about an hour earlier than her usual next feed. I don?t think my milk supply is low as I used to have a lot more than what she needs that donated milk to hospital.
I am also considering to try the "Baby-led weaning". I haven?t tried any finger foods yet to her but I am so afraid that she will choke? If I give it a go with BLW, which food should I start with? What?s the safest way of doing it? If I am feeding her outside without tray and highchair how do you do that? If baby just drops all foods on the floor then she will not have any food in her stomach, is that ok?
Or...Maybe have week of break from weaning and later give her puree and BLW combo feeding? Will they work?
Sorry my thread became really long but I am really stressed with weaning and need some wisdom from mums here please. There are so many different advices and options... I am so confused. I wish I can understand what DD is screaming for...