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BF and BLW - tell me what your 10.5mo eats/ drinks??

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flipflopson5thavenue · 11/06/2013 20:20

DS is almost 11 mo and been doing BLW since 6mo. He's BF and until recently was a milk monster but I've noticed he's started drinking less in the day now. He normally has milk in the morning, before each of his two daytime naps and before bed and maybe a couple of other small feeds.
He loves his breakfast porridge and shovels it in by the fistful. He eats a lot of fruit and likes beans (although its probably the sweet tomato sauce he likes really...) and grated cheese. Rice cakes with unsweetened peanut butter are hit as well as savoury veg and cheese muffins. However thats sort of it.

Or rather I'm having a bit of a lack of confidence moment and am convinced he's never going to eat proper meals and never have a real appetite. He often just stares at any new food in front of him and then picks it up and drops it on the floor.
Because he seems to be drinking less milk too i just wonder how he's not hungrier!? Is it possible that the porridge he eats plus BF sustains him??
Tell me your stories and tell me to keep my nerve and trust him :-/
Oh he's happy and active and has gained weight steadily since birth.

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 11/06/2013 20:23

He sounds fine to me. What do you do if he doesn't eat the new food?

flipflopson5thavenue · 11/06/2013 20:32

I try a few times to interest him again either with a new piece or pick up the discarded bits, then offer fruit and yogurt. I try not to offer bits he's thrown off but sometimes he picks everything up and chucks it all off and then I think, "well that's lunch over in 15 seconds then" so I try again.
I meant to say he also feeds 2/3 at night.

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 11/06/2013 20:35

So if he refuses something new he get fruit and yoghurt? Clever boy!

flipflopson5thavenue · 11/06/2013 20:42

I figure meal is main + fruit + yogurt, just because he doesn't eat main doesn't mean he can't have fruit and yogurt but I see the point you're trying to make

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 11/06/2013 20:50

I used to do the same with dd and really, really wish I hadn't. She very quickly became a fussy eater. She's 6 soon and we've still not cracked it fully. NI only did it because I was worried about her calorie intake. Wish I'd just relaxed a bit more.

2 night feeds is normal at this age too Smile

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