Extra milk but going off solids

[Alabama100]

Baby isjut over 7 months and was exclusively breastfed until 6 months. Then I gradually switched to formula and she was taking 4 bottles a day (7oz) 7am, 11am, 3pm and 7pm. She was also eating breakfast lunch and dinner in between. Last couple of days she has started refusing lunch and dinners really crying and kicking up a fuss, and today she had an extra bottle of milk another 7oz.

Could this be a growth spurt or is she subbing food for milk. Should I refuse the extra bottle and encourage the solids more?

Thanks.

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I have 7mo twins and have a very similar schedule to you re milk feeds. DTS seems to love all food. However I have struggled with DTD and have recently started to give them a smaller bottle (5oz instead of 7oz) at 11am and 3pm, and to leave it around an hour before offering solids. She seems to be keener then although she may just be getting accustomned to fiod, who can tell what goes on in those baby brains

Fiod = food!

Thank you....maybe I should ty reducing her milk feeds.

Lots of babies don't actually eat very much in the way of solids and milk is their main source of nutrition until around one so I wouldn't worry too much. Perhaps the novelty has worn off a little! If you aren't already you could try finger foods and encourage your baby to explore the texture of different types of food. Alternatively your baby might be fighting off a bug, that could perhaps affect her appetite. Or she might be going through a developmental 'wonder week' which might be making her fussy.

Thank you, she is both TW and BLW so has had finger food for a while now...hv suggested cutting back to 200mls morning and evening and 150 11am and 3pm with the sim of reducing it to eventually 3bottles a day /600mls...does this sound right to you guys?

That's about what I'm doing (7oz, 5oz, 5oz and 7oz bottles). The 7oz x 3 bottles sounds about right for 9-12 months so you'll need to get there slowly- my HV told me not to drop a bottle until on 3 meals a day including protein at least one meal.

Thank you...we are on 3 meals a day including a protein meal t lunch but the portions are so small I don't feel comfortable dropping an entire bottle yet. If I do 7oz x2 and 5 oz x2 that's 700mls is that enough? I am such a worrier!

That's the same as I'm doing. I think you can only try and see what happens - if she starts waking more at night or doesn't put enough weight on then you can always increase the milk again? (I go and get my twins weighed every month just to be sure as one of mine is only 2nd centile!)

I have a similar problem - a 7 month old who I started trying to wean at 5.5 mths. She has not been eating much food despite being big (99th percentile) so I cut down milk last week (down to 3 bf feeds instead of 5 and 1 bottle instead of 2) but she wakes once or twice at night and fills up on formula then (I am giving her 50% diluted bottles) and is then not hungry enough to eat the next day, despite the reduced feeding - we are in a very viscious circle. She is happy to eat lots in the evening but we really need to get more of something into her during the day. Did I cut down the milk too fast? Should I go back to giving her more milk and essentially start again, hopefully stopping the night waking which is often making her too tired to be bothered trying with food during the day anyway?????

Hi

Just wanted to say that I posted very similar recently.. My dS went from eating everything and lots, to very little and only yoghurt!!

It seems to have just been a stage as he has gone back to normal eating! I just persevered, tried not to put too much pressure on and not make it a battlefield, kept offering food, and then left finger food out that he could feed himself.

No doubt there will be many other 'stages'

Hth