I'm just worried mine isn't eating enough. We started weaning at 5 months and he's been on 3 meals a day since around 7 months. He's always been fairly small (around 30th centile) and is now putting on around 5oz a month, and we've been told by the health visitor to decrease his breastfeeds to 3 a day which I've done. Now that he's getting less breastmilk I'm worried he's not eating and drinking enough!
We've always done a mix of mush and finger foods with a beaker of water. He's in a phase of throwing stuff around so a lot of the finger food goes on the floor (although if it lands on the splashmat he gets it back), and he sometimes will cram so much in his mouth that he can't swallow it and will spit it all back out again. He does eat plenty of toast and cucumber if they're on offer and will always eat rice cakes, but a lot of fruit and veg just gets played with. He'll always have a go but a lot is usually left. He's now also started refusing more than a couple of mouthfulls of the main meal, possibly because it's not blended any more. I don't think it's a problem with spoon feeding as he is happy for me to feed him yogurts, weetabix and Ellas pouches (which he doesn't usually have at home but does if we're going out, and will eat a whole one - perhaps I need to blend my stuff down to a runnier consistency?).
Anyway, in a typical day he'll have:
Breakfast - half a weetabix with milk and a little fruit puree, 1 slice of toast with something on - usually finishes all the cereal and about half the toast.
Lunch - 2 different finger foods and a mush, today 4 cucumber sticks and a small slice of cheese on toast, with a third of a small can of baked beans. Ate a few spoonfulls of the beans, all the cucumber - but he spat a lot out - and about a quarter of the cheese on toast. Followed by a petit filou, always finished.
Mid-afternoon - we were out with friends and he had a few baby rice cakes.
Dinner - similar to lunch. Today had some cheesy pasta with very finely chopped spinach, which he hardly ate any of. I tried spoonfeeding and letting him pick it up but he didn't want it. Half a tomato cut up, 3 baby corns, and half a banana, ate most of the corn, none of the banana, spat out a lot of tomato. Another small yogurt which he finished.
Does this sound like enough? I feel like I'm starving him! Am I maybe offering too many different things? He's fine at breakfast time. Am I doing the wrong thing giving everything at the same time?
I feel like I'm trying hard to get things into him and most of it's going on the floor. I also think that I don't know exactly how much in terms of volume he should really be eating - everyone says just let him eat until he's full, but if he doesn't want any I can't just let him not eat, and it's not that he's full because if I offer him something he loves like a yogurt he'll eat the whole lot. Sorry this is long but if anyone has any advice it would be gratefully appreciated!