A few weaning questions! (sorry to go on so much)

[jillandbea]

My lo is 29 weeks old and I have been weaning her for several weeks now and want to run a few things past you all, she has 2 meals per day, breakfast is usually banana porridge and lunch a veg and fruit cube. She also has 5x8oz bottles which she appears reluctant to reduce. Should I try milk and solid at seperate times? Will this have any reduction in the milk? Also she has rice cakes as I am trying to give her variety in textures (I am too scared for the whole blw) although she will always want pear puree over anything else, when she has these or a slightly more textured puree she coughs, I am wondering if this is her adjusting to its texture or her slightly choking, she doesn't go blue or anything and is fine after the cough and it doesn't happen every mouthful. Thankyou!!

ds1 was botle fed, and he had his milk with his food right from the start of weaning, except the early morning one.
ds2 is breastfed, and thre's no way his grubby chops are coming near me! So he has his milk in between meals, like a snack. He's just started on a bottle in th evening; the only way we could get him to take it was with his meal; he was just not having it if it was seperate to food.

Jillandbea I wouldn't worry too much about the volume of milk, rookiebaby is 7.5mths and didn't show much signs of reducing his intake until a few weeks ago, when I realised that he just wasn't interested in milk with his lunchtime feed and a few weeks later it happened with the 5pm feed.

Also until a couple of weeks ago he wasn't particularly interested in anything other than fruit & veg purees. I would stick mainly to what she likes at the minute but try out the odd new thing and it should come in time.

Jillandbea, I don't think the coughing thing is choking, just adjusting to new textures and learning how to move the food round her mouth. My lo does this too. If it doesn't upset her, i would offer a sip of water and keep offering different textures.