Anyone still weaning beyond 1yrs?

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Hello all,

My little girl is 11 months and will be 1yr in less than a month now. It's been a long and slow weaning journey and I feel no further forward to when I started at 6 months (only to say that she hasn't gagged in months) puts everything in her mouth and tastes it, we've done a combination of BLW and spoon feeding more BLW now.

Basically she starts chewing and most of the time the food reappears she pushes it back out 🙈 I know she has swallowed some food as her stools have become harder, but generally they are soft most mornings. She's currently on 5 bottles and over the hot spell has been pretty much finishing them all. She has water with meals and throughout the day, I have tried to replace the mid morning bottle and afternoon with a snack, but it's the same thing not eating and just more trips in the high chair which she gets frustrated by. I've also given her food sitting in the floor in the playpen and like the high chair, she just does the windscreen motion and makes a mess.

Anyway, I've just got to wait it out till she's ready (I'm completely exhausted of ideas) other than to keep offering of course.
I'm just curious to know if anyone had a similar situation and did there little one take more than 6 months plus to wean? I guess I'm looking for some positive stories to pick me up. Oh she starts nursery in September so hoping this has a positive effect?

Thanks so much in advance xx

Oh she's on 3 meals has been since 7 months

My eldest would sit down for three “meals” at a year old but really didn’t consume much until about 18 months. For a time around a year old she would pretty much only eat yoghurt. She’s now four and without anything different from us, eats normally. She just started eating more volume between 12 and 18 months. She was breastfed and absolutely taking on more milk than food at a year old. I’d just aim for three meals (not snacks yet) and time it to be before a bottle. Then wait it out. (So wake up, breakfast and bottle afterwards, Normal morning routine but give her lunch half an hour before she’s due a bottle and ditto for dinner)

@InNeedOfALieInNow thanks for the advice, I'm not convinced snacks are worth it also the HV at her development check was keen I tried. My gut instinct has been to ditch snacks and concentrate on the 3 meals. Oh yes she loves Greek yogurt at the end of a meal well (a tasting session to put it correctly) 😂 she'll keep going on Greek yogurt and at least now swallows the yogurt so trying to look at the positives. I know she'll get there, it's just I love cooking and finding new recipes for her but feeling like I'm losing my mojo a little. She has lots of yummy typical baby food like Avocado and cream cheese but also tries adventurous foods as well. She will try everything so I probably shouldn't complain x

I was pretty stressed about the fact that my dd wouldn’t eat but in the end she got there on her own and the stress wasn’t worth it. I was in the exact same place - trying and cooking so many foods, all for them to be rejected, which was frustrating. But in the end she would try everything, and it was more about how much she ate as opposed to what she would try - and the consumption came with time. I had antenatal mates whose kids would eat loads but only of a tiny select amount of snack type foods - so once time passed I actually ended up with a better eater in the long run!

Ds didn't really 'get' solids until he was 15-18 months. From about 12 months on, he just ate what we ate as I got tired of cooking anything specially for him. He's 3 and will eat anything now, so I guess something worked. I used to get so stressed by meal times though!

Thanks good to know and yes I didn't put this in my original post but my NCT buddies all have great eaters and the ones on bottles are down to 2 only morning and night! On the food front my partner cooked a fragrant fresh Chinese chicken tonight with peppers, spring onion, lemon grass and fresh chilli and she tried all the components of the meal. She's also good with a fresh homemade mackerel pate and will nibble this. Actually writing it down helps to see it's not all bad. I guess mentally there seems to be pressure around hitting the 1 year mark and for me, she needs to be off bottles as well so I think it's case of following her lead and being ok with it even if we are still using bottles beyond 1 x

Ds kept on guzzling loads of milk until he was 2 and we only got him off a night time bottle when he was 2.5. He's doing great...

@LorelaiVictoriaGilmore that's great to know. There seems to be a panic about teeth and getting them off the bottles which I understand, but as long you are cleaning the teeth twice a day and she sleeps right through now, so no nighttime bottles. I also know other toddlers who have bottles still? If she was eating well I'm sure it would be easier to remove bottles, but 95% of her nutrition comes from milk still x