Hi,
I'd love some advice please.
I have an almost 7 month old who was weaned at 5.5 months. Solids were going really well- I am doing puréed foods and then offering finger foods for her to play with at meals at the same time. She was, and still is, keen to put finger foods in her mouth, but she swallows very little at the moment. She enjoys it but I'm not relying on it to fill her up!
She was on about:
8tsp oats/weetabix with formula and 2tbsp fruit for breakfast
8tbsp chicken casserole or similar for lunch
6 tbsp veggie supper.
We follow a routine, which has been working really well and I'd like to stick to, of:
7am milk
8am breakfast
9:30-10 nap
11:15ish lunch
12:15 top up of milk offered
1245-2:30 nap
2:30 milk
5 tea
6:30 milk
7 bottle
She's still sleeping through the night but occasionally early morning waking so I am desperate for the lack of food not to impact her sleeping at night!
Now she isn't keen for anything except for natural yoghurt. Sometimes she'll open her mouth and take a couple of tablespoons in a sitting. She's never had favourites as such, she used to accept apple, pear, peach, mango, peach, broccoli, sweet potato, courgette, parsnip, carrot in much the same way.
I don't know where I've gone wrong. Possible thoughts are teething (but still no tooth), returned from holiday on Saturday and it started going downhill on subday, maybe I increased solids too much too soon.
I've thought of some options and would love your advice:
Should I
(A) continue offering little bit of what she was having, and hope this is a phase that will soon pass. But I don't want to create a bad food association
(B) go back to the beginning and offer tiny bits of baby rice or similar and then build up again with fruits/veggies and then protein
(C) get her to keep eating using whatever methods necessary- if I dip the end of the spoon in yoghurt she'll have the whole spoonful. Obviously great to get the food in her as a short term solution but might it lead to long term problems?
Thanks in advance for any help!