how much does your 6/7 month old eat?

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Dd is almost 7m, we started weaning at 5m. She mostly refuses to be spoon fed so we are doing blw.

She gums things and bites them, she is most enthusiastic about toast, mango and cheddar.

She doesn't actually consume much at all, if anything.

Am I alone having a non eating baby? Am I alone in. Having one who won't behave be spoonfed?

She is a nightamre with bottles too and all in all our entire feeding experience with her hasn't been a delight (tongue tie, jaundice, reflux). I need to know there is hope.

I feel your pain, I hated this phase too. I battled with DS for a few weeks, but he did not seem to be interested with spoonfeeding but I kept at it (I DID NOT force feed him!) and then bang! literally overnight, he started eating everything presented to him, as if someone flicked a switch.
Keep at it, be consistent (as in don't change feeding process every day) and stay positive and calm (yeah yeah yeah.... look who's talking!). Your baby is not just ready yet.

Dd3 is 6m she gums v enthusiastically but most bits that are gummed off then drip down her chin. I'm not worried about as long as she's willing to try. She will spoon herself but not let us do it.

Thanks guys, will persevere!!

I started weaning DD at 5 months as well but she ate hardly anything at all until about 9 months. Just keep offering food and eventually she will take an interest.

Pretty much the same as mousema- started BLW at 5.5 months, DS didn't routinely eat much until about 9 months,

ds is 9 months and will eat a rice cake and half a little pot of yoghurt if I let him pull an entire row of books off my bookcase and smear them with yoghurt. Otherwise, he tastes everything I put in front of him and spits it all out.

It is useful if he's eaten cardboard or something he shouldn't as he spits that out too.

Seems some of them just take longer than others. Hang in there.

You mean you don't always let him smear your books with yogurt ?! What a meanie!

BLW here as well with DD who is 6 months ans 1 week now. We started around 5.5 months, initially she was really just sucking carrot and cucumber sticks without swallowing. For a couple of weeks now, she does swallow chunks here and there though. Might have one or two small bites of cucumber, a few bites of a banana, a few grains of rice and a few breadcrumbs on a daily basis. If you put all together maybe it would amount to the equivalent of half of those hipp glasses?

She is still bf on demand so i don't really mind what amounts go down, as lon as she enjoys herself and is entertained while i enjoy my breakfast and lunch. I am mainly interested in her learning to grab and hold food as well as chewing and swallowing so that she has those skills at 9 or 10 months when i hope to reduce bf and increase solid intake.

Came a bit late to the thread - but for the last couple of months I've also been wondering why two big eaters like my DH and I have produced such a disinterested and picky DD!

At nearly 8 months I'll be lucky if I get more than 3 spns into her during the day, although she does drink around 600ml a day of milk. She also suffered reflux and I do often wonder if her refusal to put solids into her mouth might be due to her memories of those awful first months. Who knows...
Anyway the reason I write is because only yesterday I visited the ped' and he more or less told me off for offering DD the 4 bottles of milk a day that I do. Basically he said that I should give her a 200ml bottle in the morning then the rest of the day only food, then another bottle before bed. I do live in a foreign country, so perhaps this is a cultural difference, but I can't believe how different their way of going about weaning is. Ultimately this ped told me that I should refuse my daughter any milk from morning til night until she finally gets the idea that she should be eating food at these times.
I have to say I'm not keen. And would love to know what the opinions are of anyone else out there before I start starving my daughter.

offmyrocker I would not be happy about doing that either. I have read on here of people trying it and saying it didn't work, only resulted in much upset all round.

Thing is they don't know food can fill them up so won't know to switch milk for food. Sorry don't know how much milk that is as ds is bf. Do you give her finger food too? ds seems happier to pick food up and explore it if I leave it on a low table near toys rather than making him sit in the highchair at certain times (is messy though).

Another one here whose baby magically got the gist at 9 months. DC2 is 7 months, a spoon refuser (suits me really ) and still doing the random gumming thing mostly. Much easier to take the minimal intake in my stride this time.

Love the name haud

offmy, in your shoes I'd be asking to be shown the evidence on which the doctor has based that advice. My bet is that it's randomly made-up, or at best a misinterpretation of evidence.

offmy no way on earth would I do that.

wash thanks!

my 7month eats differing amounts depending on what's on offer and who's sitting with him. Daddy is allowed to spoon yoghurt but I'm not apparently so he gets to do sloppier stuff and I do toast, veg, chicken etc.

Average day he prob gums more than he eats, maybe half a finger of toast, a sliver of chicken, top of a stick of carrot. He swallows about 10% of what goes in his mouth I think.

My DS is also just turning 7mo and started on solids a month ago.

Some things he will happily take off a spoon - fruity purees, greek yoghurt, a bit of porridge - whereas others he prefers popped straight in to his mouth off my finger tip - pasta, mashed potato, chunks of fruit etc. He's also quite happy taking fistfuls of food and trying to feed himself, although this technique doesn't result in much going down.

Most mealtimes consist of a combination of all three methods, with varying degrees of success. His mood is the main determining factor in how much gets eaten, to be honest. This morning he flatly refused a bowl of yoghurt, banana and stewed plums so I let him have half an hour of rolling about and changed his nappy and then he ate most of the bowl! Contrary....

I would have a go at popping little bits of food in to her mouth rather than on a spoon - this often works with my DS even when he is clamping his mouth shut if I wave the spoon at him.

I'm really trying not to worry about the quantity he's eating at the moment. He's still having as much breast milk as he wants (although I do think the feeds are getting a little lighter overall) and the poos are prodigious, so he certainly isn't going without!

Well the starving thing is just not going to happen.
My DH feels under pressure because the ped wants us to phone him back next week to hear how the weaning/starvation is going, but I can't bring myself to take away dd's milk. I've been reading so many things on internet and they all say that milk is the main nutrient for a baby under one years old. It's just that in the country I'm in they start weaning at 4/5 months and expect their babies to be on three meals a day by 8/9months. I suppose, as I don't know an awful lot of other mums in this country that basically the few I do have told me that they had no probs, and look at me in wonderment when I tell them my DD won't eat food and she's nearly 8 months.

She does, however, love squidging any bite size pieces into carpets, clothes and the sofa is now a fetching pattern of splodge. And I'm more than happy to continue like this. That is until my next check up with ped' when he'll tell me off again.
It's hard work fighting a battle when you are the only one who's of a different opinion (my husband's also from the country I live in). So it's really supporting to hear that I'm not the only one who feels that taking away my dd's milk is going to automatically mean she's going to start wolfing down 3 meals a day!
Sorry this was so long.

Good for you! She'll get the hang of it when she's ready & its much better for her to be fit, healthy and full on the way there.

Boy sucked all the peanut butter off the toast this morning, and threw the toast away

Oh so glad I've read this thread. DS is 6.5 months old and been doing BLW for the last two weeks.

For a baby that loves putting every bit of plastic tat and rubbish in his mouth, he seems to have a strange aversion to putting actual food in his mouth.

Glad to see I'm not alone!

I was talking to this woman in her sixties this afternoon and telling her about my dd not being interested in putting anything that wasn't liquid and white in her mouth and she suggested I sprinkle sugar onto everything. Apparently it worked fine on her kids and one's a lawyer and the other's a doctor .
I think I'll keep my concerns to myself while I'm at the grocer's buying pears for DD. And I won't be adding sugar...
I wonder if anyone has had helpful suggestions like this one to add - just for a giggle.

I tried croissant on DD1 (6 months and 1 week old) today, she loved it! I highly recommend trying croissants for BLW, because it is very soft and melts in their mouths. it was quite a mess with all the crumbs all over her shirt, but she loved it and a lot went in because of the texture, it is very easy to swallow.

I also found that moving DD's lunchtime from 12 to 1 made a huge difference. I think some of the reason she wasn't eating much before was because she just wasn't hungry when I wanted to feed her.

Had a minor breakthrough - she ate a half slice of bread tuna mayo sandiwch :) and then at tea sucked on toast and actually ate half a small slice of melon and one whole muller little stars yogurt. Am hoping she continues!

Oh and in terms of dodgy advice-my mum moaned at me today for feeding dd 'weird' foods - because I gave her a dried apricot and she regularly has mango.